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

2. 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.

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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