Conferences

Conference: Creating better business environments - African and global lessons for donors

Ghana

5-7 November 2007 Links to all of the various aspects of this Conference are given below. In particular, the draft BE Donor Guidance is now posted, and comments are invited from anyone, to the dedicated blog.

Conference: Creating better business environments - Asian and global lessons for donors

Thailand

29 Nov - 01 Dec 2006 This Conference was organised by the Business Environment Working Group as a regional consultative event. The Programme and major links are provided below.

Conference: Reforming the Business Environment: From assessing problems to measuring results

Egypt

29 Nov - 01 Dec 2005 Links to further information on this Conference are given below.

Conference on BDS in Asia

3-7 April 2000 This Conference was the last of five BDS Conferences organised by the Donor Committee.

Virtual Conference on Performance Measurement of BDS for MSEs

01 May - 30 Jun 1999 The Virtual Conference was launched by the Donor Committee to look particularly at measuring performance. It became more than this, however, as it provided a forum in which the emerging ideas about developing commercial service markets could be discussed.

Conference on BDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

Brazil

4-5 March 1999

Conference on BDS globally

Brazil

2-3 March 1999

Conference on BDS in Africa

Zimbabwe

29 Sep - 01 Oct 1998 Business Development Services: How Sustainable Can They Really Be?