Lotus Opportunities in conjunction with SNV/N organized a meeting on Enterprise Development Network on September 12, 2003 at Hotel Summit. A total of thirty-four members participated in the meeting. The prime objective of the meeting was to bring together individuals and organizations from various sectors and share and disseminate ideas and thoughts and to discuss the need for a network and its sustainability, issues that a network should address, roles that the network can play and finally, set-up of the network and way forward.
Mr. Rajiv Pradhan, ED, Lotus Opportunities, discussed about the need for a network on enterprise development and the issues that the network should address. A variety of views were stated while issues were being discussed. However, a majority of participants believed that the four prime issues dominating are, technical issues, joint work issues, sharing issues and lobbying and advocacy policy.
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