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UNCTAD Enterprise Development Branch
Mission Statement
• To assist enterprises to realize their trade and investment opportunities.
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How the Mission is accomplished….
• By building institutional capacity at the country level so that developing countries can assist their enterprises to survive and compete in the global economy.
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Activities
• Engages in research on best practices • Promotes inter-governmental consensus on policies and programmes • Assures policy coherence at the national and international levels • Undertakes technical cooperation activities
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Organigram of the Branch
Enterprise Development Enterprise Policies Enterprise Capacity Building
Financial Services & Governance
Accounting / Reporting Corporate Governance
Enterprise Policies - National strategies
• Identification of effective private sector development strategies – Public-private sector dialogue : building awareness/commitment/partnership.
• Business development services – One stop shop (EMPRETEC) – Networking / South-South cooperation – Disadvantaged entrepreneurs : Women, Rural • Financing SMEs – Obstacles to commercial bank lending – Implementing Monterrey Consensus – Combining business & financial services • Technology transfer for SMEs – Financing technology – Acquiring technology via interfirm cooperation • Business linkages • Clustering
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Enterprise Policies - Policy coherence
• Interface between national strategies and WTO, IMF, BIS requirements
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EMPRETEC
• Purpose : Contribute to the development of a dynamic private sector
Formal request, Consensus with the Government, Initial implementation of ENC, Final implementation of ENC, Project Maturity ENC
where EMPRETEC installed
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EMPRETEC Installation phases
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Phase I
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Phase II
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Phase III
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Phase IV
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Phase V Formal request for an Empretec project and initial discussions; Programming mission, assessment of national SME sector, consensus with Government, identification of counterpart, drafting of project document; Recruitment of staff, including the director, establishment of Advisory Board, initial core activities; Operationalization of full project, putting in place basic training and services, certification of local trainers, setting up a national association of participants; Maturity of project, offering customized training and other services, progress toward financial self sustainability, establishing of legal entity (e.g. foundation, association).
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Operational Empretec Centers
EMPRETEC Products & Services
• Entrepreneurship Training Workshop (ETW) • Intrapreneurship • Agrotech • Iniciativa • PROEX • Financial services • Business linkages • Women entrepreneurs
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South-South cooperation
• Brazil Angola, Guyana, Jordan, Mozambique, Romania, Palestinian Territory (core activities) • Chile Argentina (Business Plan training) • Colombia Argentina, Chile, Venezuela (Agrotech) • Ethiopia & Zimbabwe Uganda (core activities) • Ghana Enterprise Africa (core activities) • Ghana Ethiopia, Guyana (ETW) • Uruguay El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama (core activities) • Uruguay Argentina, Panama (PROEX) • Uruguay El Salvador, Ethiopia, Morocco,Zimbabwe (Iniciativa)
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Empretec impact via MED2000 Country Programme start year No.of ETWs No.of Participants Ethiopia Jordan 1999 2001 20 2 477 40 Morocco 1998 Palestinian Territory Uganda 2001 1999 10 1 8 150 29 212
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EMPRETEC in Latin America (cumulative figures until Feb 2003)
Country
Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia El Salvador Guatemala Panama Uruguay Venezuela
Year
1989 1992 1990 1996 2000 2001 2000 1989 1993
Phase
V V V V IV III IV V V
ETW
49 2,244 63 25 38 7 21 73 37
Participants
1,057 56,380 1,560 730 855 156 459 1,603 960
Trainers
6 200 11 9 5 3 3 4 3
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EMPRETEC in Africa (cumulative figures until Feb 2003)
Country
Ethiopia Ghana Morocco
Year
1999 1990 1998 Mozambique 2000 Senegal 2001 Uganda Zimbabwe 1999 1992 IV III IV V
Phase
V V IV
15 ETW Participants
20 477 44 10 938 150 11 2 8 68 225 60 212 1477
Trainers
15 10 5 4 2 15 24
EMPRETEC in other parts of the world
(cumulative figures until Feb 2003)
Country
Jordan Palestinian Territory Romania
Year
2001 2001
Phase
III III 2002 IV
ETW
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Participants Trainers
40 4 29 4 4 120 6
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Special Projects
• Business linkages • Women entrepreneurs • Corporate social responsibility
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Financial Services & Governance
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ECOSOC mandate
• Concerned about the lack of adequate disclosure, reliability and comparability of financial reports by TNCs: – July
1972,
convoked a “group of high-ranking independent experts” or the group of “Eminent Persons” • In July
1975
the Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (GEISAR) was established • Based on the Recommendations of the predecessor ad hoc
expert group, ECOSOC, established the
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ISAR mandate
make a positive contribution to standard-setting at the national and regional level take appropriate action to ensure the comparability of disclosure by transnational corporations • serve as an international body for the consideration of issues of accounting and reporting • review developments in the field of international accounting and reporting; including the work of standard-setting bodies • concentrate on establishing priorities (of work) taking into account the needs of home and host countries, particularly those of developing countries.
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Bangkok mandate
• As per Bangkok Plan of Action (2000) paragraph 122, –
UNCTAD should promote increased transparency and financial disclosure by encouraging the use of internationally recognized accounting, reporting and auditing standards and improved corporate governance. UNCTAD should develop appropriate technical cooperation programmes in this field.
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Region
ISAR membership
No. Of seats Vacancies
Africa Asia Latin America and Caribbean Eastern Europe Western Europe and other regions Total 3 9 9 7 6 34 1 1 4 1 6 13
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Main areas of work of
• Transparency/accountability/comparability • Accounting by SMEs • Corporate governance / Disclosures • Corporate social responsibility Environmental accounting & reporting Social accounting & reporting • Capacity building Guidelines on professional qualifications Role and responsibility of auditors
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