Sunday, April 24, 2005

Traidcraft International: Fighting Poverty Through Trade

It is a DFID-funded volunteer NGO devoted to end poverty. To fight poverty, they have taken international trade as a major instrument. Their site has online store for handicrafts products. This program is a MSME (Micro-, Small-, and Medium-sized Enterprise) facilitation, poverty alleviation, and export expansion program.

SEDF - KNOWLEDGE CENTER

Is a joint cooperative knowledge centre for the SMEs moderated by FBCCI and SEDF. Located in Dhaka & Chittagong. It is also strogly affiliated by South Asian SME Toolkit of World Bank. The centre also maintains library & information centre in FBCCI premises.

Virtual Market - VM Bangladesh

A GTZ program implemented for Bangladeshi companies/SMEs. It is a database and communication portal and software for Bangladeshi companies and SMEs. The software can provide marketing, financial, HR, and other related solutions.

It has a nice Flash Interface to search for some authenticated SMEs in Bangladesh.