WUSME GS Knoll-Dornhoff
The deepening structural, financial and personal crisis that a long time leading (in India based) World SMEs Association suffered during a couple of years has been hard to a lot of Member Organisations, but it has been hard in a particular way for thousands of Small and Medium Enterprises who expected support and effective actions to overcome the crisis. „Instead of isolating when it´s getting tough in the economy, we must closely work together and speak with one strong voice. Though the Indian based SME oganisation widely lost her members and her reputation as a global institution, she could be a valuable partner organisation for WUSME. We invite all serious Indian Organisations to discuss with us new ways of co-operation at the International SME Conference 24.-25. February 2010 in San Marino", said Knoll-Dornhoff.
WUSME has already worked out an Action Program with the following priorities:Trade and Quality Production Capacity-Building
- Enhancing the capacity of SMEs and women entrepreneurs supportingOrganisations, especially in developing countries and countries with economies in transition to help SMEs to upgrade production to competitive quality standards and to participate in global trade.
- Assisting in the diffusion of modern and relevant technologies, through theUNIDO network of technology centres, support for technology, management programmes, road-mapping and foresight.
- Supporting the creation of export consortia, a specialised form of SMEs network.
- Designing and implementing national and regional commodity-based tradecapacity-building programmes, in co-operation with international partner agencies such as WTO, UNIDO, ITC, FAO and CFC.
- Providing assistance in co-operation with UNIDO and specialised Institutions toaddress the growing significance of private sector requirements for enterprise systems and product standards.
Fiscal and macro-economic policy
Within this policy area, the UNION will deal with macro-economic policy, which means monetary policy, fiscal policy and wage developments. Furthermore, all issues related to economic growth and structural changes, taxation and the organisation economic systems, like services of general interests, regulation of energy markets, undeclared work and general questions of regulating an economy are also dealt with in this area. Easier access of micro-enterprises and women entrepreneurs indeveloping countries to financing ,e.g. by advising and assisting SMEssupportingFinance Institutions in underprivileged Countries to obtain Global Loans from the EIB – European Investment Bank.Enhancement of regional reforms for SMEs - Ease of Doing Business and
Crisis – Management
Energy from renewable resources: The UNION will promote access of SMEs to new technologies in the fields of energy production from renewable sources (sun, water, wind, waste) e.g. recycling plants "Waste to Gas, Bio-fuel and
Electricity", small hydro power plants, wind parks, solar energy cells etc.
Environment: Environmental policy has, until recently, mostly been directed towards larger businesses with high environmental impacts but this is no longer the case. SMEs, and in particular micro-businesses, now also face specific
problems in the area of environmental policy. The UNION will offer through it's specialized Member Institutions technical support for responding to new environmental demands at the pace required.
Information Management, Education & Training for SME's EntrepreneursInformation Management: Information management and knowledge networks can be seen as concepts permitting the way between supplier and user of information to be shortened.
The UNION will help SMEs supporting Institutions to easier access to appropriate tools to stock the external knowledge according to is needs and to develop a new information and knowledge management process by assuring an optimum diffusion of this knowledge to its staff (and networking SMEs - business partners) in order to exploit the information and generate added value.
Education and Training of SME's Entrepreneurs with a Special Emphasis on Women Entrepreneurs in Developing CountriesThe UNION will, in close co-operation with the International University of Entreprenology and other reputed Institutions,: Affiliate and work diligently with other international organisations, agencies, institutions, schools, colleges and universities sharing our vision, ideals and commitment to furthering appropriate economic growth and development through the presentation and eventual proliferation of quality education and training.
Continue to develop, refine, update and implement appropriate diploma, degree and professional certification programs through our global affiliations. Provide entrepreneurs, entreprenologists, Visioneers and VisionEngineers© with the business tools essential to success, growth and longevity and to do so in a timely and cost effective manner.Develop, maintain and support, with the assistance and support of our affiliates, appropriate global resource networks beneficial to entrepreneurs, entreprenologists, Visioneers and VisionEngineers© around the world.
Employment and Social Affairs
The UNION will monitor the development of Social Policy in industrialised countries, including the renewed social agenda, the Employment Strategy and the modernisation, for example, the European Social Model which has, over the years, become one of the main pillars of European action, reinforced by the integrated Lisbon strategy for growtand jobs. The Union will also:
Update, inform and advise the Union's member organisations on a regular basis, play an active role in consultative status at UN Organisations (e.g. ILO), in order to defend the opinions and interests of it's member organisations and
institutions across the broad range of issues within global Social Policy.
Prof. Dr. Norbert W. Knoll-Dornhoff
Secy.-General, WUSME Conference Committee
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