DMSs can provide solutions for business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) e commerce.

The easy to use manager (ERP CRM) for small and medium enterprises or foundations

In enterprise debt, IMF's report suggests that comprehensive measures can be taken to address enterprise debt issues.

Addressing the needs of SMEs

The ITC World Trade Net programme seeks to help business sectors better understand dynamic changes in legal and regulatory frameworks for international trade and implications for day to day business operations.

60. Small scale enterprise programme.

67. Small scale enterprise programme.

(As decided within the framework of the ECE reform, this subprogramme is being incorporated into the revised subprogramme 16.7, Trade, industry and enterprise development, as described below.)

48. Surveys conducted indicate that entrepreneurs are often not aware of the contents or existence of business support programmes.

Some external transitional help to meet the cost of such SME support programmes may thus be needed.

And I initially ended up in the business section of the bookstore looking for a business solution.

Some of our development programmes have focused primarily on the provision of micro enterprise loans for small business persons.

(As decided within the framework of the ECE reform, this subprogramme is being discontinued. Some of its sectoral activities have been retained and moved to the revised subprogramme 16.7, Trade, industry and enterprise development.

Business partnership programme.

62. Micro enterprise credit programme.

69. Microenterprise credit programme.

The portfolio also included deregulation, public enterprise reform and divestiture, promotion of cooperative societies and establishment of programmes for private sector and small and medium enterprise development.

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

Subprogramme 4 Microfinance and microenterprise

In addition to its microfinance services, the microfinance and microenterprise programme continued to provide a number of business training and entrepreneurship courses through its small and microenterprise training programme.

Finally, the programme runs a very efficient and cost effective small and microenterprise training programme in the Gaza Strip, which contributes to the promotion of entrepreneurship and the improvement of business skills in the local enterprise community.

UNCTAD and DDSMS are cooperating closely in EMPRETEC a United Nations programme on entrepreneurship and business development, whose mandate is split between the two organizations.

Training programmes developed by international organizations include EMPRETEC, jointly managed by UNCTAD and the UN Department for Development Support and Management Services, aimed at fostering entrepreneurial development and providing promising entrepreneurs with training in basic business procedures and contacts for enterprise networking.

Nigeria also welcomed Major Programme E, which provided assistance to improving the entrepreneurial and technical skills of rural and women entrepreneurs, as well as stimulating the productive capacities of micro, small and medium enterprises, especially in the agro industry sector.

In the case of Brazil, capacity building programmes such as the making of global players offered by Fundação Dom Cabral have helped some Brazilian firms strengthen their managerial capacity and increase their knowledge of cross cultural and internationalization issues, thus assisting them in their internationalization efforts.

Microfinance and Microenterprise Programme

Small and microenterprise training programme

These programmes comprised the business partnership programme, information services, SME cluster and network development, export consortia, rural and women's entrepreneurship development, and SME enabling framework and institutional support.

UNDP has also continued support for the Empretec Programme, which promotes entrepreneurship and development of small and medium sized enterprises in economies in transition.

63. Small and micro enterprise training programme.

70. Small and microenterprise training programme.

Subprogramme 9 Natural resources and infrastructure

1995 4 Science and technology for development (subprogrammes 2, 8 and 12)

Mr. Charles Ocici, Executive Director, EMPRETEC, Enterprise Uganda, Kampala

Space technology provided a reservoir of potential solutions for the industry.

A business process approach should be taken to resolve this problem.

12. Panel members recounted how their participation in the EMPRETEC programme had changed their business attitudes and perceptions, enhanced their business skills, and provided them with the business self confidence necessary to take risks as an entrepreneur and manage their business activities more effectively.

The other, using government funds, was joined by 12 SMEs from the manufacturing sector.

Article 42 When members of the trade unions of coal mining enterprises find that administrators of the enterprises give directions against regulations and order miners to work at risks or when they scent hidden danger of obviously serious accident which may threaten the lives and safety of workers, they shall have the right to make proposals for tackling the problem, and the administrative body of the coal mining enterprise must make prompt decision to deal with it.

c) To set up integrated programmes for the development of female entrepreneurship in urban areas.

Vocational training programmes had been established and women were being encouraged to start their own small businesses.

Table 9

A. Space based technology solutions for disaster management

For a number of years UNCTAD s Enterprise Development Branch has been coordinating its technical cooperation activities in enterprise development with ILO s Entrepreneurship and Management Development Branch and UNIDO s Small and Medium Enterprises Branch, as well as cooperating closely with the Department for Development Support and Management Services (now part of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs) in the joint implementation of the EMPRETEC Programme.

Experts also agreed that it would be useful to develop a global or regional players programme similar to the one offered by Fundação Dom Cabral to share best practices and experiences regarding enterprise internationalization through investing abroad.