Measuring success in entrepreneurship support initiatives: What works and what more is needed

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This report serves as a companion to the bridges.org report “Supporting entrepreneurship in developing countries: Survey of the field and inventory of initiatives”. This companion report is offered as a first step toward common evaluation criteria that entrepreneurship support initiatives could use to gauge the effectiveness of their activities. A report card presents a format for an organisation to offer its views on what works best for supporting entrepreneurship, and why.

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Table of contents

Executive Summary
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
1 Introduction
2 Success metrics: determining what works and why
The value of case studies
The next step: objective evaluation criteria
2.1 Setting concrete goals and achieving them
2.2 Implementing and disseminating best practices
2.3 Evaluating efforts and reporting back to clients and supporters
2.4 Creating new businesses
2.5 Building local capacity and imparting a skill set so businesses can grow themselves
2.6 Facilitating truly original ideas
2.7 Building businesses that withstand the test of time
2.8 Fostering environmentally sustainable business
2.9 Focusing on maginalised groups
2.10 Positively affecting the local economy and society
2.11 Fostering catalytic change by promoting a culture of entrepreneurship
2.12 Addressing policy issues that hinder entrepreneurship and SMME development
2.13 Implementing a cost-effective approach to get the most impact for the least cost
2.14 Integrating technology and going beyond ICT
2.15 Offering services that are relevant and useful at the ground level
2.16 Satisfying "client" entrepeneurs

3 Evaluation "report card" template
4 Our views: filling in the gaps

Acknowledgements

This report was prepared by bridges.org to inform the deliberations of the Business Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Working Group of the UN ICT Task Force. We would like to thank the people that provided insight and advice on this report, including those at Accenture, Acumen Fund, Development Space, E-Learning Associates, Geekcorps, Hewlett-Packard, Technoserve, World Corps, World Resources Institute, and the Youth Employment Summit. We would also like to thank Hewlett-Packard for supporting this work.

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