Country / Multinational Working Groups Guideline Enhancing Entrepreneurship in SME Development and Export Consortia 21 July 2009

Objective To identify enterprises in their own countries and oversea and to propose feasible action plans regarding to how best to improve enterprise and entrepreneurial development. Participants work in groups of number of similarity type of work (total 4 groups). Guide questions and guideline of presentation are provided.

The Presentation should include : General Information of the country such as; Geography GDP Population Major tourist attractions

Current issues and trends on areas of enterprise development Country Group 1 : Business Cluster Brief description of the business cluster Major business clusters (two or three) in your country? How do you define SME in your country? How much does the SME sector contribute to your country economy? Major (two or three) challenges of growing SME and business clusters in your country. One or two common challenges regard to the business cluster among your group. Bhutan China Indonesia Kenya Uganda Group 2 : Business Development Service What kind of business development services provide/receive in your country (from government, association such as Chamber of Commerce)? What are the agencies or ministries involved in the business development service (public, private, civil society) Challenges or issue the for business development service Common issues encountered among your group Jordan Myanmar Sri Lanka Burundi

Current issues and trends on areas of enterprise development (con’t) Country Group 3 : Financial Service from public and / or private What kind of the financial services provide/receive in your country (from Bank for SME)? What are the agencies or ministries involved in the financial service (public, private, civil society)? Challenges or issue for the financial service. Common issues encountered by the countries among your group. Bangladesh Fiji Senegal Solomon Islands Tonga Group 4 : Export Consortia / Association Brief description of export consortia / association (what does it mean to your country?) Country’s major export consortia / association in your country? Agencies or ministries involved in country’s export business (public, private, civil society) Challenges or issue for export consortia Common issues encountered among your group Morocco Nepal Nigeria Pakistan

Sample of PPT Business Cluster Bhutan China Indonesia Kenya Uganda Definition of SME Major business clusters SME sector contribute to the country economy Major (two or three) challenges of growing SME Major (two or three) challenges of growing business clusters Common challenges from group