Work We Are Proud Of
The Entrepreneurship Toolkit
The entrepreneurship toolkit identifies innovations and best practices, both in donor-funded and non-donor-funded projects worldwide. IT is an important contributor to the State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) initiative and was an undertaking in the Business Growth Initiative (BGI).
Implementation Best Practices for Value Chain Development Projects
JAA technical advisors contributed their expertise to formulating implementation best practices for value chain development projects. The report observes that the best implementation approaches are market-driven, flexible, facilitative, catalyzing of behavior change, and incrementally taken to scale. [USAID]
Entrepreneurs’ Voices
JAA conducted interviews with entrepreneurs from around the world and asked them pressing questions about starting a business in their country. These interviews and a presentation on entrepreneurship were presented at Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. [USAID]
Exporting Mangoes from Mali: Achieving Economies of Scale through Multi-modal transportation: Sea Freight from a landlocked country
Through a multi-modal transportation system, Mali overcame its infrastructural and supply chain challenges. [World Bank]
Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness: Economic Impact Assessment
In the third phase of PISDAC, specific objectives included convening Pakistani industry working groups (supplementing the original focus on dairy, gems and jewelry, marble and granite, and information technology) to develop policy initiatives geared toward boosting competitiveness, assisting working groups, identifying 30 and achieving 15 economic and institutional reforms, and implementing 5 to 6 workforce development initiatives. [USAID]
Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications
Value chain-based approaches offer tremendous scope for market-based improvements, but are often covered by literature that is too conceptual or heavily focused on analysis. This Guide describes practical implementation approaches and illustrates them with scores of real African agribusiness case studies. [World Bank]