Making Cents International invites you to a half-day, hands-on session where you can learn how to adapt field-tested enterprise development curriculum resources to your specific youth programming needs. This workshop takes place one day before the Global Youth Enterprise Conference.

Featured curricula include:



EcoVentures International is hosting a series of workshops to assist organizations engaged in or interested in youth livelihoods programming.

This AED Knowledge Series event examines the effects of economic strengthening on children, featuring Mike Field (ACDI/VOCA), Margie Brand (AED), Jason Wolfe (USAID), and Michele Akpo (AED) discussing experiences from the field.

For more information, please contact Jennine Carmichael at jcarmichael@aed.org.

USAID/Russia is making a special call for the submission of concept papers that support partnerships between non-profit organizations and the private sector. Applications addressing the following thematic objectives are sought:

This report is a presentation of general principles that can be useful to enterprise development organizations (EDOs) who are trying to take on a more market development (sustainable) approach to enterprise development. The principles can be applied to economic development projects that target small, medium or large enterprises. The principles include:

Action for Enterprise (AFE) is offering a five-day workshop that presents the latest methodologies and practice for designing value-chain programs that incorporate strategies for sustainable impact. Participants will learn how to design programs that result in market-based solutions to MSME constraints such as market access, input supply, technology/product development, management training, policy reform, and access to finance. Examples will be used from enterprise development programs and practitioners worldwide.

USAID/West Africa is seeking applications from qualified organizations to implement a program to promote food security and improve the livelihoods of families in selected communes and villages of southern Niger.

This field manual by the Women’s Refugee Commission has been developed to provide practitioners with usable information and helpful tools so that they can design and implement more effective livelihood programs — programs that are based on market demand and are contextually appropriate; programs that build on the existing skills and experience within the target population; and programs that enhance the dignity and options for the displaced.