This year the Academy will focus on Sustainable

Enterprise Development and Youth Entrepreneurship,

offering concrete experiences of unlocking the potential

of creating more and better jobs in enterprises. The

following three topics will be covered:

•

Policy design and implementation of experiences

with focus to create a favourable environment

for sustainable enterprise and employment

–

(target group: policy makers): Enabling business

environment; Entrepreneurship education; Women

entrepreneurship, Public private partnerships, Policy

options to support green enterprises and Social

entrepreneurship.

•

Products and services for enterprise development

and the promotion of better working conditions

–

(target group: enterprise development practitioners):

Sustainable enterprises through good workplace

practices; Start and improve your business); Women

entrepreneurship development), Market oriented

business development services), small and medium

enterprise fi nance, and tools to support green

enterprises.

•

Systemic approaches for sectorial enterprise

development through value chains and business

service markets

– (target group: enterprise

development practitioners): value chain development

for decent work, value chain fi nance, monitoring

and evaluation of of enterprise and private sector

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