Cinterfor/ILO

-Training and Development of Entrepreneurs-Managers of Small Enterprises. Tolentino, A.L. (Papeles de la oficina técnica Nº5)

InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment Through Small Enterprise Development

SEED is working with governments, social partners and communities to craft new policy tools, invigorate entrepreneurship and management training and involve small business in new markets. The Programme conducts research on what works where and why to boost employment through small enterprise development. 

SEED's mission is to strengthen understanding of how development of this economic sector can better serve employment goals. Most importantly, this knowledge is being put to work through policy guidance, technical assistance and international advocacy. ILO concerns and values drive our work to improve job quality in small enterprises, increase economic opportunities for women, promote Association building of employers and workers in the sector and upgrade employment for workers in the informal economy.
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/empent/empent.portal?p_prog=S

Publications

* Job quality and small enterprise development - SEED working paper No. 4 March 2000 - Working paper

* Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship Development based on Good Practice Programmes: Some Experiences from the North to the South. Paula Kantor, November 2000 (Series on Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender in Enterprises – WEDGE)

* Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in the Caribbean - Lessons from Barbados, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Ferdinand (ed.), Carol

* Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises: Getting the Policy Environment Right. Linda Mayoux. 2001. Working Paper N° 15 (Series on Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender in Enterprises – WEDGE)

* The microenterprise in Central America. Central American Project to Support Microenterprise Programmes. (RLA/99/M05/NET). International Labour Organization