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Enabling Environment and LED

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Faculty: Graham Buckley (ILO, Enterprise Specialist) and Simon White (International Consultant)
 
 
Session 1: Introduction to Business Environment Reform
Session 2: Assessing Business Environments and Designing Reform Programmes
Session 3: Key Issues in Business Environment Reform
Session 4: Local Business Environment Reform
Session 5: Participation, Empowerment and the Political Economy of Business Environment Reform
 
 
Graeme Buckley bio data 
 
G. Buckley is an enterprise specialist at the ILO where he works on enterprise policy and business enabling environment issues. Previously he worked in the Policy Integration Department at the ILO, responsible for coordinating the ILO’s work on PRSPs. He has worked in over 40 countries in various capacities, including long term assignments as economic adviser to the Minister for Finance in Swaziland and chief economist at the Foundation for Reconstruction and Development in El Salvador. He was previously at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), where he held posts as Economic Adviser/UK Alternate Director at the Caribbean Development Bank, based in Barbados; Economic Adviser for the China and East Asia Department and Enterprise Adviser responsible for the South Asia programme. Prior to that, he worked in the Evaluation Department at the Foreign Office. He has a PhD in development economics, an MBA and a first degree in economics and has published a number of books and journal articles on topics related to enterprise development, microfinance, social dialogue and poverty reduction.
 
 
Simon White bio data
 
Simon White is a specialist in private sector development, business environment reform and regional and local economic development. He has proven experience in working at local, national and international levels in policy design and evaluation, programme development and management, as well as in strategic planning and organisational development. He has worked as a self-employed consultant since 1990 in over 25 countries across Africa, Australia, Asia, as well as parts of Europe and the Pacific. His clients include international development agencies, donor agencies, national governments, local government authorities, business membership organisations, consulting and research firms, and non-governmental organizations.

 

Course on “Créer de meilleures environnements des affaires pour le développement des entreprises”

Orateurs: Graham Buckley (BIT, Spécialiste des Entreprises) and Simon White (Consultant International)


Session 1: Introduction à la réforme de l'environnement d'entreprise
Session 2: Évaluation des environnements d'entreprise et conception de programmes de réforme
Session 3: Questions clés de la réforme de l'environnement d'entreprise
Session 4: Réforme de l’environnement d’entreprise local
Session 5: Participation, autonomisation et économie politique de la réforme de l'environnement d'entreprise


Graeme Buckley

Graeme Buckley est spécialiste du développement de l’entreprise au BIT, où il travaille sur la politique d'entreprise et d'affaires concernant les questions de l'environnement. Il a auparavant travaillé au Département de l'intégration des politiques et des statistiques, où il était chargé de coordonner les travaux de l'OIT sur les DSRP. Graeme a officié à divers titres dans plus de 40 pays, assumant notamment des missions à long terme telles que conseiller économique du ministre des Finances du Swaziland ou économiste en chef à la Fondation pour la reconstruction et le développement d’El Salvador. Il a également travaillé au Département britannique du développement international (DfID) en tant que conseiller économique/directeur suppléant représentant le Royaume-Uni auprès de la Banque de développement des Caraïbes, basée à la Barbade; conseiller économique pour la Chine et l’Asie de l’Est; ou encore conseiller entreprises pour l’Asie du Sud. Avant cela, il avait travaillé au département de l'évaluation du Foreign Office. Graeme est titulaire d'un doctorat en économie du développement, d’un MBA et d’un diplôme de premier cycle en économie et a publié plusieurs livres et articles sur des sujets liés au développement des entreprises, la microfinance, le dialogue social et la réduction de la pauvreté.


Simon White

Simon White est spécialiste du développement du secteur privé, de la réforme de l'environnement d’entreprise et du développement économique régional et local. Il possède une expérience du travail aux niveaux local, national et international dans la conception et l’évaluation de politiques, l'élaboration et la gestion de programmes, ainsi que dans la planification stratégique et le développement de l’organisation. Depuis 1990, il travaille comme consultant indépendant dans plus de 25 pays, en particulier en Afrique, Australie, Asie, ainsi que dans certaines régions d’Europe et du Pacifique. Parmi ses clients figurent des agences internationales de développement, des organismes donateurs, des gouvernements nationaux, des autorités locales, des associations d’entreprises, des bureaux de consultance et de recherche et des organisations non gouvernementales.
 

Course on “SME Finance"

Faculty: Bernd Balkenhol(ILO, Social Finance Programme)

 

Problems in accessing bank finance and other financial services rank high in surveys of SME owners. This is not limited to low income economies, even in competitive and efficient financial markets SMEs complain of unresponsive banks. Whether this perception is always justified or not is difficult to determine; but it is plausible that because of their asset structure, legal form, size, ownership and other factors SMEs tend to face a more expensive and relatively unstable supply of external finance, compared to corporations, or even informal micro enterprises.
SMEs on the whole create more jobs per $ invested, they also tend to shed jobs more quickly than show that job creation in SME is also more volatile than in larger units. Still, the large number of SME and their political clout explain why public authorities since decades and anywhere in the world sought to address market failure, alleged or real, with regard to SME finance, largely with the aim to contribute to job creation. 
The course will explore the relative success and failure of the most prevalent policies to bring about a better match of supply and demand in SME finance. Using case studies, real and fictional, the aim is to simulate decision-making situations in SME promotion. Participants will be confronted with choices, from the perspective of an enterpreneur, support agency, banker or government official. 
The issues cover financing needs, prospecting and costing financing options within the firm and in the local financial market, legal form and level of formality and a comparative assessment of banks, financial cooperatives and microfinance institutions for SME finance. A special session is devoted to microfinance and to what extent it can be useful for SMEs.
 
 
Bernd Balkenhol bio data
 
Bernd Balkenhol directs the ILO’s Social Finance Program (SFP), which observes, records and evaluates initiatives to use financial instruments and institutions for decent work. The focus is on innovations in finance that create jobs, help manage risk and organize the poor.  
Prior to this Bernd served as technical advisor to the central bank of West African States (BCEAO) on SME financing. In that framework he helped develop a course for the central bank’s training institute COFEB on commercial bank financing of African SMEs. This led to the publication by Harmattan of 16 case studies on small enterprise finance in Africa.
He holds a  PhD from FreiburgUniversity in Germany and a MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Medford, Mass.) He lectures at the Geneva Institute of Development Studies and the University of Geneva. His latest book (“Microfinance and Public Policy”, Palgrave Macmillan) reviews the conditions for smart subsidies to microfinance institutions.
He has served on the Executive Committee of CGAP and is Founding President of the Swiss Microfinance Platform. 
 

 

 Course on “Local Economic Development"

Faculty: Martin Gasser (ITCILO, Programme Officer); Kees Van der Ree (ILO, EMP/ENTERPRISE);  Mostefa Boudiaf (ITCILO, Programme Officer)

Enterprise promotion and employment creation have a strong local dimension. Sub-national Governments are important actors in shaping local economic development (LED) strategies in close collaboration with the private sector and civil society. Their role is to identify locality-specific comparative advantages and turn these into competitive elements for growth and inclusive, sustainable development. LED strategies also need to articulate and adapt national and sector development policies to the local context and make them provide real benefits for all working people.

 

The elective on LED will address policy and strategy questions and provide examples of successful cases. What are the options are for people, firms, and regions to better compete in the global economy. How can enterprises be supported more effectively at the local level in order to be more sustainable? What role do public and private stakeholders play in the design and implementation of an LED Strategy? What tools do we have to implement LED strategies more effectively?

 

 

 Course on “Developpément Economique Local"

Professeurs: Martin Gasser (ITCILO, Chargé de Programme); Kees Van der Ree (ILO, EMP/ENTERPRISE);  Mostefa Boudiaf (ITCILO, Chargé de Programme)

 

La promotion de l’entreprise et la création d’emplois revêtent une forte dimension locale. Les autorités régionales sont des acteurs importants dans la mise en œuvre des stratégies de développement économique local (DEL), assortie d'une collaboration étroite entre le secteur privé et la société civile. Leur rôle est d’identifier les avantages comparatifs spécifiques locaux et de les transformer en éléments compétitifs pour la croissance, y compris pour le développement durable. Les stratégies de DEL doivent articuler et adapter les politiques de développement national et sectoriel (des filières) au contexte local et faire en sorte qu’elles puissent offrir des bénéfices réels à tous les travailleurs.

 

Le module sur le DEL posera des questions en ce qui concerne les politiques et les stratégies et exposera des histoires à succès. Quelles sont les options qui s'offrent aux individus, entreprises et régions pour être plus compétitifs dans une économie mondiale? Comment faut-il soutenir plus efficacement les entreprises dans un contexte local pour être plus durable? Quel est le rôle que jouent les acteurs publics et privés dans la conception et la supervision d’une stratégie de DEL? Quels sont les outils à notre disposition pour renforcer plus efficacement les stratégies de DEL?