They also win a business trip where they have the opportunity to present their business idea to local and international investors. The BWF’s Business Plan Competition modules was selected by the European Training Foundation as one of the best practices in encouraging entrepreneurship and building the capacities of women entrepreneurs. Before 2011, the WBDC also received a budget allocation from the Egyptian National Council for Women (NCW), but since then, the NCW has no funding from the government and the WBDC has had to dramatically reduce its operations,10 adjust its training offers (e.g. shorter modules) and impose a small fee on its training participants to help recover some of the costs. The Roudha Centre in Doha initially received some support from Silatech, but operates solely with private sector support. Further development is necessary to better co-ordinate BDS services by identifying the needs of MSMEs at different stages of the business cycle and by structuring BDS services appropriately. The most important challenges seem to be on the demand side.