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The Economic and Business Development Program (EBD) supports a wide range of organizations throughout the world. Listed below is a sampling of those organizations, categorized by the EBD's three focus areas and individual sub-focus areas within them.


  • Business Development & Entrepreneurship
  • Microfinance
  • Social & Economic Inclusion

  • Business Development and Entrepreneurship


    Social Investments
    Grameen Communications (Bangladesh): http ://grameen-info.org/gc/
    Helpargentina (Argentina): http://www.HelpArgentina.org
    NGO Loan Fund, NGO Resource Center (Bulgaria): http://www.ngorc.net/
    NGO Loan Program Business Basic Foundation (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu
    Project Ideas http:// www.projectideas.org 
    Scojo Foundation (India): http://www.scojo.com/jsp/scojo.jsp?s=about&c=village

    Business Developments and Services
    Business Basics Foundation (BBF) (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu
    Business Incubator (Croatia): http://bios.osijek.hr
    Center for Entrepreneurship (Croatia): http://www.poduzetnistvo.org
    Kazakhstan's Association of Business Incubator Series (Kazakhstan): http://www.kabic.kz/
    Regional Economic and Development Services (Bulgaria): http://www.redc.sliven.net/
    Roma Business Incubator (Bulgaria): http://www.redc.sliven.net/
    Ukraine Business Incubators (Ukraine): http://ubica.kiev.au/en/index

    SME Policy
    CEPOR (Croatia): http://www.cepor.hr
    Donor Committee on Business Development: http:// www.ilo.or g 
    Legal Navigator (Uzbekistan): http://www.uzlaw.org/

    Entrepreneurship
    Enterprise Europe (United Kingdom): http://www.enterpriseeurope.demon.co.uk/
    Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship (Croatia): http://poduzetnicki.efos.hr/
    Junior Achievement: http://www.jaintl.org
    Wave 2 (United Kingdom): http:// www.wave2forum.org 

    Microfinance


    Investments
    Agroindbank (Moldova): http://www.maib.md/en/
    Association for Cooperation with Micro Enterprise (ACME) (Haiti): http://www.mixmarket.org/en/demand/demand.show.profile.asp?token=&ett=866
    Association of Lithuanian Credit Unions (AKLU) (Lithuania): http:// www.lku.lt 
    Autonomia Development KHT, in Cooperation with the Autonomia Foundation (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu
    Besa Foundation (Albania): http:// www.besa.org.al 
    Budapest Bank (Hungary): http://www.ge.com/hu/businesses/bb_en.shtml
    Center for Economic Development (CDE) (Romania): http://www.cde.ro/
    Euromarket Banka (Montenegro): http://www.euromarketbank.com/kurs/klista.htm
    Export Credit (IK Banka) (Macedonia): http://www.ikbanka.com.mk
    International Guaranty Fund (IGF) (Switzerland): http://www.fig-igf.org
    Kazakhstan Community Loan Fund: http://www.kclf.kz
    KMB (Russia): http://www.kmb.ru/english/index.html
    Microenterprise Development Fund Kamurj (Armenia): http://www.mixmarket.org/en/demand/
    demand.show.profile.asp?ett=205&showinfo=general

    Mibanco (Panama): http://www.mibancopanama.com/MIBANCO.htm
    Moldova Microfinance Alliance (MMA): http://www.soros.md/programs/agro/enterprise_development/en.html http://www.soros.md/organizations/spin_off/en.html#7
    NOA Bank (Croatia): http://www.noa.hr
    Raiffeeisen Bank [Marketbanka] (Bosnia and Herzegovina): http://www.raiffeisenbank.ba/english/index.htm
    Raiffeeisen Bank (Bulgaria): http://www.raiffeisen.bg/
    Rural Investment Fund in Cooperation with the Soros Fund Guatemala (Guatemala): http://www.banrural.com/
    World Vision (Georgia): http://georgia.worldvision.org
    XAC Bank (Mongolia): http://www.xacbank.org/

    Education and Training
    Microfinance Center (MFC) (Uzbekistan): http:// www.mftc.uz 
    Microfinance Management Institute (MMI) (USA): www.themfmi.org
    Microfinance Training (MFT) (USA): http://www.naropa.edu/microfinance/coursedescription04.html

    Policy and Regulation
    Policy Capacity Building: http://www.mfc.org.pl/index.php?section=NET&page=Other
    Policy Forum: http://www.mfc.org.pl/index.php?section=NET&page=MFC%20Newsletter
    Policy Monitor: http://www.mfc.org.pl/index.php?section=NET&page=Policy%20Monitor

    Microfinance Industry Development
    Consultative Group To Assist The Poor (CGAP) (USA): http://www.cgap.org
    Credit Union League (RCUL) (Russia): http://www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/russwest/moscow/credit.htm
    Foundation For The Support of Mutual Financial Organization (Russia): http://www.orema.ru
    Grameen Foundation (USA): http://www.gfusa.org/
    Microfinance Information Exchange (USA): http://www.themix.org
    Microcredit Summit (USA): http://www.microcreditsummit.org/
    Mikrofond (Bulgaria): http://www.micro.ngorc.net/en/

    Social and Economic Inclusion


    Military Retraining
    Foundation of Social Adaptation "Partner" (Russia): http:// www.exmilitary.ru 
    International Foundation for Social Adaptation (IFSA) (Ukraine): http:// www.ifsa.kiev.ua
    Resource Center Foundation (Bulgaria): http://www.ng o rc.net/en/programs/sap/

    Re-entry of Ex-offenders
    Employment Re-Entry Initiatives: http://www.eri-sdp.org

    Economic Opportunities for Roma
    Autonomia Development KHT (Hungary): http://www.bbf.hu (with support from www.autonomia.hu)
    Regional Economic Development Center (REDC) (Bulgaria): http://www.redc.sliven.net

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