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Enabling Environments Points for Policy Brief. Q1: Limiting Factors in Political Frameworks. Excessive Burden of Regulation: Lack of relevance to scale and product High transaction costs Conflicting Perspectives on SMEs Welfare cases v. production organizations
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Q1: Limiting Factors in Political Frameworks • Excessive Burden of Regulation: • Lack of relevance to scale and product • High transaction costs • Conflicting Perspectives on SMEs • Welfare cases v. production organizations • Lack of interest in forest sector • Anti-community policies • Lack of trust in sector • Lack of ability to commercialize resource
Q2: Conducive institutions for SMFE development? • Access to resources and decisionmaking control • Ability to shape processes • Institutions adapted to specific characterisitics and context • Accountability over decisionmaking • Horizontal networking
Q3: Recommendations (1) • Focus on relevant rules according to scale and product • Build awareness of role of SMFEs in poverty alleviation and economic development • Develop appropriate incentives • Research how to integrate SMFEs into economic policy • Government procurement policies
Recommendations (2) • Government to provide incentives • Networking among stakeholders to identify common interests • NGOs to raise awareness • Promote image of SMFE sector • Donors: link SMFEs to poverty alleviation