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This article investigates whether Dutch NGOs increasingly involve private sector ac- tors in their enterprise development interventions and, if so, whether this increased involvement makes a difference. After reviewing changes in the policy area of enter- prise development interventions, we present our findings from interviewing enterprise development specialists at 18 Dutch NGOs. We find that private sector involvement has increased, with private sector actors in the Netherlands and in the South, and this has contributed to an increased market orientation, focusing more on opportunities than on problems, more on small and medium-sized enterprises as opposed to micro and survival businesses, and more on mainstream markets than on niches like fair trade. Private sector actors have not become involved in NGO policy development, nor do they influence monitoring and evaluation systems. While most older and larger NGOs are more experienced in market building, some of the newer NGOs – among them private sector hybrids – focus on market participation. A challenge for the com- ing years is to organise and stimulate selective matches between these two comple- mentary types of intervention skills. Developing more systematic bridges between market building and market participation can help to enhance the direct poverty re- duction potential of enterprise development programmes by Dutch NGOs. The in- creased involvement of private sector actors can facilitate building these bridges, espe- cially when market participation specialists are willing and able to learn about oppor- tunities and constraints in market building interventions, and vice versa.
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