USAID Breakfast Seminar Series
Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies
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This is a monthly series sponsored by USAID’s Microenterprise Development office. Each seminar aims to share timely research developed under the Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (text-only), as well as other enterprise development research conducted by USAID’s partners. The ongoing seminar series serves as a platform to disseminate knowledge and best practices in the field of enterprise development, particularly focusing on USAID’s Value Chain approach (text-only).
Note: Transcripts of all our screencasts () can be made available upon request. Please e-mail microlinks@microlinks.org to request a copy.
Upcoming Event: September 23 Smallholder Incomes & Food Security: Case Studies from Kenya & Honduras Claire Starkey, Fintrac | |
Recent Event: July 22 Don Brown presented “Facilitating Markets for the Poor: Experiences from the Promoting Pro-poor Opportunities through Commodity and Service Markets (PrOpCom) program in Nigeria.” The seminar was the 51st installment of the Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies Breakfast Seminar Series. Read more about Breakfast #51 (text-only). | OTHER ONGOING EVENTS |
Past Seminars
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July 22, 2010. Donald Brown (Chemonics), Facilitating Markets for the Poor: Experiences from the Promoting Pro-poor Opportunities through Commodity and Service Markets (PrOpCom) program in Nigeria For more information and to access this screencast, click here (text-only).
June 17, 2010. Donald Snodgrass (DAI), Lucy Creevey (DAI), and Elizabeth Dunn (ACDI/VOCA), Beyond the Standard Approach: Evaluating Complex Economic Growth Programs in Fluid Environments For more information and to access this screencast, click here (text-only).
May 27, 2010. Mahawa Wheeler (ACDI/VOCA), First-time Buyers: Facilitating Integration of the Very Poor into Emerging Commercial Value Chains in Liberia For more information and to access this screencast, click here (text-only).
April 8, 2010. Zan Northrip (DAI), Using Evaluation Findings to Drive USAID Learning For more information and to access this screencast, click here (text-only).
March 11, 2010. Ivan Idrovo and Marian Boquiren (SDCAsia), Facilitating Behavior Change for Improved Competitiveness and Poverty Reduction: Experiences from the B-ACE Project in the Philippines
January 28, 2010. Ruth Campbell (ACDI/VOCA) and David Neven (DAI), Does the Value Chain Approach have Relevance for Food Security? The Case of Rice in West Africa
Breakfast # 37: Catalyzing Value Chain Development: What We Say, What We Do, and What Roles We Should Play breakfast #37.pps
Breakfast #38: Early Lessons Targeting Vulnerable Populations with a Value Chain Approach Breakfast #38.pdf
Breakfast #39: Value Chain Finance the Hard Way: Lessons from Zambia Breakfast#39 Dougherty.pdf
Breakfast #40: Organizational Capacity: Why the Value Chain Approach May Fail LAW_June Breakfast_PDF.pdf
Breakfast #41: Integrating Gender into Agricultural Value Chains: Experiences from Kenya and Tanzania Seminar #41_Final GATE Presentation_July_PDF.pdf
Breakfast #42: Trust and Information Flow in the Value Chain: Lessons from the Zambia PROFIT Community-based Agent Network Model 42_Sebstad & Krivoshlykova.pdf
Breakfast #43: Mobile Money: How Cell Phone Payments Will Transform the Zambian Agricultural Value Chain Seminar #43 Presentation.pdf
Breakfast #44: Methods for Evaluating Value Chains in a Dynamic Context: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Breakfast Seminar #44.pdf
Breakfast #45: Juggling Environmental and Economic Goals in Natural Resource Value Chains: Apples and Oranges? #45 Seminar_Johnson_November.pdf
Breakfast #46: Does the Value Chain Approach Have Relevance for Food Security? The Case of Rice in West Africa Breakfast Jan 28 10 - Campbell_Neven_Rice.pdf
Breakfast #47: Facilitating Behavior Change for Improved Competitiveness & Poverty Reduction
Breakfast #48: Using Evaluation Findings to Drive USAID Learning Breakfast #48_Northrip.pdf
Breakfast #49: First-time Buyers: Facilitating Integration of the Very Poor into Emerging Commercial Value Chains in Liberia #49_May Breakfast Seminar_Wheeler.pdf
Breakfast #50: Beyond the Standard Approach: Evaluating Complex Economic Growth Programs in Fluid Environments #50_June Seminar_Beyond the Standard Approach.pdf
Breakfast #51: Facilitating Markets for the Poor: Experiences from the Nigeria PrOpCom Program #51_July Breakfast Seminar.pdf
Breakfast #52: Smallholder Income & Food Security: Case Studies in Central America & East Africa 
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