Global Entrepreneurship Program & Enterprise Development Network

The Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) is a U.S. State Department iniciative, to promote and spur entrepreneurship around the world, through it’s embassies by catalyzing and coordinating partners and resources around the following six areas to create an integrated, entrepreneurial ecosystem:

· Identifying.

· Training.

· Connecting and sustaining.

· Guiding to financing.

· Enabling supportive policy.

· Celebrating entrepreneurs.

GEP’s partners include both domestic and global NGOs, corporations, foundations, educational institutions and investors. To develop entrepreneurship ecosystems, GEP partner organizations are asked to further their activities, either by expanding current programs to a new country, or deepening existing programs in their current countries of operation.

·· Featuring the Enterprise Development Network

The Enterprise Development Network (EDN) Search Engine enables enterprises to connect with these providers, the purpose is to help businesses access the resources they need to grow.

It also houses lenders’ and equity providers’ (CAP, or Capital Providers’) links, and content from US and foreign government organizations (GOV) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO).

Sponsored by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is a global platform dedicated to cultivating Business Enterprises in Emerging Markets. Since 2007, EDN has developed partnerships with dozens of business service providers (BSP) located around the world.