Measure: Ethiopia. The Enterprise Development Diagnostic for USAID/Ethiopia

摘要

The Business Growth Initiative (BGI) project has developed an enterprise development diagnostic (MEASURE) to provide U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) missions with a tool that assists them in understanding: Changes in business performance; Changes in business behavior and decision making; and How those changes are impacted by changes in the business economic environment, focused on the firm level. The MEASURE tool is comprised of relevant indicators, that when coupled with an enterprise survey, provide USAID missions, policy makers and practitioners with baseline data and comparison against other countries. The tool also segments, interprets, analyzes, and permits the monitoring of data for future enterprise development programming. Using an enterprise development framework, the indicators have also been selected for ease of measurement. Accompanying the indicators is an enterprise survey, which assists in illustrating the nature of enterprise sophistication. In March 2009, BGI conducted a pilot MEASURE diagnostic in Ethiopia. The BGI team surveyed 54 enterprises in Addis Ababa from a cross-section of key sectors including agriculture and agribusiness, manufacturing, services, and trade.