Donor Committee for Enterprise Development

The DCED's Women's Economic Empowerment Working Group and the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar! ✏ Women Entrepreneurs: Essential Actors in Climate Action  📆 Wednesday 23 October 2024 🕑 14:00 CEST  🗣 The webinar will be held in French with live English translation ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/eAu86wAC This webinar will explore the pivotal role of women entrepreneurs in driving climate solutions, featuring two women leaders sharing their experiences spearheading grassroots climate solutions and discussing how donors can help scale the impact of women's organizations. Speakers include Ndèye Marie Rose, cooperative leader at the largest landfill in Dakar, Senegal, and Abidate Abdourahamane, biomass business owner in Comoros. The webinar will be moderated by Olola Vieyra-Mifsud, Ivory Coast Country Representative to the Global Green Growth Institute. The webinar is based on a series of five case studies from the DCED that challenge the dominant narrative portraying women as victims of climate change, instead depicting women as active agents of change. Read the inspiring case studies here: https://lnkd.in/e9yB_tnt #WEE #WomensEmpowerment #climateaction #webinar #grassroots #climatechange The Canopy Lab

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It's a wrap! Yesterday we concluded our #DCEDGlobalSeminar2024 - the first after six years. It was incredibly energising to connect and re-connect with colleagues from donors and implementers that champion systemic approaches to PSD. A few highlights from the last day: Honest exchanges on donor-implementer relationships, where they get stuck and what is required to make adaptive management work in practice; challenges and possible next steps in the measurement of 'green' PSD results; and continued conversations on systemic approaches to employment promotion and on adapting PSD in fragile contexts. We're excited to carry forward many of the conversations started during the Seminar, including through the DCED Working Groups. Many thanks again to all contributors and participants for sharing their lessons and experiences so openly, and to our co-sponsors Gatsby Africa and International Labour Organization for their generous support to the Seminar!

A second of rich and fascinating discussions at the #DCEDGlobalSeminar2024 has come to an end. Today, four sessions focused on finance as a critical piece of facilitating system change. Panelists explored innovative pathways for systemic SME finance, including experiences in enhancing synergies between PSD and development finance and in promoting the financial inclusion of women-led businesses. Other sessions explored systemic approaches for trade-related outcomes, employment and in FCAS. Donor-implementer relationships were also on the agenda again: panelists discussed donor policies which have influenced systemic practice on the ground and opened up on why there is often still a discrepancy between donor expectations and implementer realities in greening PSD. A few impressions of the day below!

Today we launched the 3-day DCED Global Seminar in Nairobi - with 190 participants from 45 countries! With an almost equal share of donors and implementers in the room, the Seminar created a unique opportunity for a frank exchange of experience on systemic approaches to PSD - including on issues such as reaching scale in job creation, practical entry points for greening MSD, and identifying high-potential sectors. In all cases, good donor-implementer relationships are key for carving out space for working systemically. We look forward to more fruitful discussion during the next two days! #DCEDSeminar2024 #PrivateSectorDevelopment #SystemChange

British International Investment are hosting an event that is likely to be of interest to the DCED network! Join BII for discussions on Flexible Finance for Development: Bridging research and practice on Friday 27 September 2024, 8:15 – 17:00 BST, in-person in London and online. This conference will bring together research about the impact of flexible finance in Africa and Asia, with the investors and companies that are supplying it. Their goal is to not only understand the positive impacts of flexible finance, but also explore how it can be delivered at scale in a commercially sustainable way. ➡ Register to attend online via Zoom: https://lnkd.in/eSJMuBSm

📢 Shout out to Kenya-based and regional private sector development staff - side events to the DCED Seminar are still open for registration! While our Global Seminar in Nairobi, 1-3 October, is now fully subscribed, you may still sign up to side events on 30 September and 4 October with our partner organisations. See below for a taster of what is on offer. Register individually with the organisers; more details on our website: https://lnkd.in/dykibyfk ➡ Join Alexandra Miehlbradt and Phitcha Wanitphon for a workshop on Results Measurement Best Practices according to the DCED Standard ➡ Learn How to be Good Funder of a Market System Development Programme with Agora Global Ltd (only for DCED member agencies) ➡ Join Alexandra Miehlbradt and Phitcha Wanitphon again for a workshop on Assessing System Changes ➡ Learn about Applying the Market System Development Approach in Fragile Contexts That Host Large Numbers of Forcibly Displaced People with DAI and International Labour Organization ➡ Join Gatsby Africa for an open house and learn about their PSD programmes in East Africa ➡ Attend an Innovative Solutions Workshop on Unlocking Capital for African SMEs and Growth Businesses with the Collaborative for Frontier Finance Please note that these are not organised by the DCED. Registering for the Seminar does not guarantee you a place at the side events; registering for the side events similarly does not guarantee you access to the Seminar. 

There is a dominant narrative that portrays women as victims of climate change. We have just published a series of five briefs that challenge this, instead portraying women as active agents of change; women are crucial to climate solutions as they play key roles in community, regional and national contexts. The briefs showcase inspiring stories of women participating in donor supported programs to combat climate change in different contexts (#Senegal, #Bangladesh, #Kenya, #Nepal, #Comoros Islands, and more), unearthing a people-centred angle to the story of climate resilience and adaptation. Developed in a collaboration between the DCED's Women's Economic Empowerment Working Group and The Canopy Lab, briefs 1 to 4 each highlight a different theme under the umbrella of WEE and climate change (renewable energy, climate advocacy, natural resource management, and food systems). Brief 5 presents donor good practices that emerged from the four preceding briefs, in the hope of inspiring donors to advance women‘s economic empowerment to address climate change. It shows the power that lies in supporting women-led initiatives. ➡ Check out the briefs on the DCED website and watch this space for details of an upcoming webinar where you can learn more ----> https://lnkd.in/e9yB_tnt Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, IFC - International Finance Corporation, Sida, International Labour Organization, Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada, UNDP ; Gisela Strand Clara García Parra Jessica Rust-Smith Kerry Max Sara Andersson Valentina Verze Fabian Werner Franziska Deininger Ciara Daniels #InternationalDevelopment #ClimateAction #WEE #Inclusion #ClimateChange #Empowerment

The draft of USAID’s new Economic Growth and Trade Policy is officially open for public comments! The Policy outlines how USAID will further its goals of advancing sustainable, resilient, and inclusive economic growth in partner countries following five programming principles: 1) Advance U.S. strategic priorities; 2) Partner strategically; 3) Prioritize resources for transformational change; 4) Measure and evaluate impact; and 5) Use a cross-sectoral approach. Read the draft Policy here and share your comments before 24 July 2024! #economicgrowth #trade @USAIDEconomic https://lnkd.in/eaFG8uZV

Do you work with a private sector development programme that looks to capture wider changes in the system or market in your results measurement system? We have just posted some new practical guidelines and case studies on our website from Alexandra Miehlbradt and Phitcha Wanitphon that will help you think through how to do this in line with the DCED Standard for Results Measurement. For example, many of us find explaining system change clearly and concisely a challenge. The right diagram can help. As inspiration, check out a brief listed under "Capturing Wider Changes in the Market or System" which provides twelve examples of visualising system change sourced from programmes around the world ➡ https://lnkd.in/gA_AZms2 We have also added to our page of guidelines for implementing the DCED Standard. For example, take a look under heading 4. "Capturing wider change in the system or market" for a step-by-step guide including templates on Operationalising System Change, and under heading 7. "Managing the system for results measurement" for a guide on Conducting Sector Strategy Review Meetings ➡ https://lnkd.in/e3-jrcr #resultsmeasurement #DCEDStandard #MEL #PSD #MSD