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Franchise system empowerment to social enterprise
By definition a social entrepreneur is keen to make a social benefit out of profitable business trading. The key aspects to successful social enterprise are to provide valuable services that are affordable, provide quality jobs in a well managed and profitable manor.
Another Microfinance Institution (MFI) Closes in Uganda as Chaos Continues in the Sector
The Support Organisation for Micro Enterprises Development (SOMED), a microfinance firm in the Kibaale District of Uganda was shut down in December last year while police claim they are investigating allegations of extortion, embezzlement and fraud. The company had been offering low-interest loans since 2004.
Mann Deshi: A Micro-Business School for rural women
The Mann Deshi Business School for Rural Women (MDBS) is a new Micro-business school program launched in India that provides training in technical, financial and marketing skills to women with no formal education and to girls who have dropped out of high school, allowing them to start and improve their own small enterprises.
4.3 The impact of economic liberalisation
The potential impacts of economic liberalisation on VET are twofold: change in incentives to invest in training and the availability of public funding for VET.
2.1.1 Poor outputs, limited impact
During the 1970s, there was considerable optimism among policymakers, donors and researchers about the potential impact of vocational training on productivity and incomes for the poor.

3.4 Making money work for poverty reduction: Working Out of Poverty
The incomes of working people living in poverty are not only low, but also volatile. Poor people, aware of the risks of not having sufficient earnings to meet daily needs, tend to save proportionally more than families with more secure, higher incomes. However, most banks do not offer savings and loan facilities to poor people. Many must hide their savings in cash somewhere and, when they need a loan, resort to the local moneylender for credit at onerous rates of interest. Microfinance is the provision, on a sustainable basis, of financial services such as credit, savings, insurance, payments and guarantees to poor people generally outside the reach of the formal financial market.
3.3 Supporting entrepreneurship in micro and small enterprises: Working Out of Poverty
Small enterprises constitute a large and growing share of employment in the developing world, and are generally more labour intensive than larger firms.

The Role of Microfinance in Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zambia: The Rainbow Model Provides a Future for AIDS Orphans
Poverty and HIV/AIDS constitute a vicious circle. Poverty creates vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS leads to poverty. Unfortunately, the interventions of the national and international community are not moving as quickly as the desperation and the loss of hope in the people coping with the pandemic at the grassroots level.

4.2.1 The challenges and barriers of growth: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Most women entrepreneurs face many growth barriers
10.1 The education system: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Over 690 vocational training centres are registered with the Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA),38 over 90 per cent of which are either private businesses or NGOs. VETA centres do offer skills training courses suitable for self-employment (tailoring, batik making, housekeeping, etc), but UDEC (2003) states that the primary emphasis on training is for employability in large public and private enterprises. Because there are few jobs available, most of the VETA graduates go unemployed or are inadequately trained for entrepreneurship. Data on the proportion of women students is not available.
4.2 The profile of growth-oriented women: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Since recent statistics disaggregated by sex are not available, it is not possible to estimate how many women among informal economy enterprises and SMEs are operating growth firms, or how many of them have medium-sized enterprises.
4.1.1 Constraints faced by women in the MSE sector: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Women in the MSE sector face a number of serious obstacles.
5.0 Micro Enterprises - What are they?: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Enterprise Growth in Uganda
Discussion of small enterprises has a definite reference to micro enterprises. What are they? Are they different from small enterprises?
9.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm Organization Form: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Organization form refers to the design, structuring and management of the entrepreneurial firm, including descriptive (e.g., age, size, location, sector), and structural (e.g., ownership) variables.

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5.0 Micro Enterprises - What are they?: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Enterprise Growth in Uganda
Discussion of small enterprises has a definite reference to micro enterprises. What are they? Are they different from small enterprises?
3.1-3.2 The SME sector in Tanzania: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
The Tanzanian government defines SMEs according to sector, employment size, and capital investment in machinery. Accordingly, SMEs are defined as micro, small, and medium-size enterprises in non-farm activities, including manufacturing, mining, commerce and services. A
9.3 Micro-finance institutions (MFIs): Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Micro-finance operators in Tanzania function within the framework of the Government’s National Micro Finance Policy of 2000. The objectives of this policy are to provide the basis for the evolution of an efficient and effective micro-finance system to serve the low segment of society and contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction (as described in MIT, 2002). The policy establishes a framework within which micro-finance operators will develop, lays out the principles to guide operations of the system, defines roles and responsibilities of actors, and provides guidelines for coordinating mechanisms. The Central Bank was given the mandate to coordinate implementation of the policy. It is interesting to note that the Micro Finance Policy includes “gender equity” as a best practice.
9.4 Recommended actions – access to credit and micro-finance: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Recommendations to alleviate some of the challenges encountered by women in accessing credit to support the growth of their enterprises are presented for each of three levels of intermediaries – micro-financing operators, financial institutions and government.
1.7 Promoting entrepreneurship: Working Out of Poverty
The tools developed by the ILO to promote micro and small enterprises can be targeted to meet the needs of the poorest.
Training vouchers for Jua Kali enterprises in Kenya
The Micro and Small Enterprise and Technology Project in Kenya incorporates many of the key features of the Bank's overall approach to VET. The provision of training vouchers to 60,000 entrepreneurs and workers among already established jua kali (hot sun) manufacturing enterprises is the main mechanism for improving skill levels. The total cost of the project is US21.83 million over a six year period (1994/95 - 2000/01).

Mann Deshi: A Micro-Business School for rural women
The Mann Deshi Business School for Rural Women (MDBS) is a new Micro-business school program launched in India that provides training in technical, financial and marketing skills to women with no formal education and to girls who have dropped out of high school, allowing them to start and improve their own small enterprises.
Another Microfinance Institution (MFI) Closes in Uganda as Chaos Continues in the Sector
The Support Organisation for Micro Enterprises Development (SOMED), a microfinance firm in the Kibaale District of Uganda was shut down in December last year while police claim they are investigating allegations of extortion, embezzlement and fraud. The company had been offering low-interest loans since 2004.
The economic implications of global remittances for SMEs
Immigrant entrepreneurs (most of them Micro-enterprises and SMEs are also ‘social actors’, who participate actively in transnational activities. For example, in the Dominican Republic, there are hundreds of small- to medium sized transnational enterprises (SMEs),including small factories, commercial/retail establishments and financial agencies. Such ventures are created and run by former migrants, who have returned to the Dominican Republic after acquiring capital and establishing ties with migrant communities in the United States, thus acquiring clients and investors abroad.

SME - MILLENNIUM REGION IN THE GABONESE REPUBLIC
WUSME recommends to add supplementary series to the UN Millennium Villages Project by Regions of Economic-, Social-, and Enviromental Excellence. The UN Millennium Villages in African Countries under the auspices of the United Nations and the Earth Institute are a positive example for efficient actions to reach the Millennium Development Goals - MDGs. WUSME WORÉD UNION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES’s proposal aims at amending the Millennium Village Project by Regions of Economic Excellence based on a favorable environment for the development of Micro- Small and Medium Enterprises. The basic features of such Regions will briefly be outlined in this article.
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