BDS and Value Chain Development for MSME Support: Empretec Zimbabwe

Dates: April to June 2020
Venue: Harare

Target Group
Project / Business Development Officers / Managers working with MSMEs in NGOs, CBOs, Government ministries and donor organisations.

Work/Educational Requirements

Purpose / Objective of the Course
To introduce new donor thinking, issues, guidelines and tools in BDS and Value Chain MSME development programmes design, financing, management and evaluation and help participants apply and design and or improve on their MSME support programmes.

Delivery Methodology
Action oriented, competency based and experiential course with a three broad phased approach. First phase consisting of back home action plan development and basic theories concepts, stages and tools, second part field based exercise on value chain study / analysis and improvement process and third phase more concrete approaches and experiences as well as development of BDS and Value Chain Development transfer and application (back home) plan.

Duration
Three weeks of one week block release over three months.

Fees
US$700 tuition including teas and lunches and training materials. Accommodation can be arranged separately.

For Enquiries and Registration, contact Empretec at 34 Lawson Avenue, Milton Park, Harare on +263 8644 119 673-4, or Elasto Chikami on +263773466461 elastochikami@gmail.com, or Costar Baleni on +263716913708 costarbaleni@yahoo.co.uk Deadline for registration is 31 March 2020.