In 2013 Argidius set out on a journey to best identify how enterprises grow and create employment. The aim is to enable business development support (BDS) organisations, and their funders, to improve the effectiveness of support to enterprises by implementing what works.

This animation series captures all the things we’ve found to date, together with researchers, our partners, and those working in the field of enterprise development, that hopefully is memorable, and leads practitioners, and those working in this space to find out more. Behind each lies rigorous research, findings from independent evaluations, and the performance data of thousands of enterprises which have accessed support from the 50 organisations we fund.

We also invite you to read the article Five Keys to Successfully Supporting SMEs (Nicholas Colloff/Oxfam: From Poverty To Power, 2019).