Informal economy operators in Bulawayo to benefit from ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business programme
The ILO has trained 17 Start and Improve Your Business trainers to offer management-training services to improve the businesses operating in the informal economy.
HARARE (ILO News) The ILO, in cooperation with the tripartite partners is looking to improve working conditions for those participating in the informal economy. Under the Employment Promotion and Labour Market Governance Programme - a programme that seeks to facilitate the transition of workers and enterprises from informality to formality and to strengthen respect for workers’ rights, the ILO has selected the City of Bulawayo to pilot the programme.
The programme has an overall aim of promoting the creation and sustainability of enterprises and decent jobs in the formal economy. It will provide hands-on and practical guidance on how to promote higher productivity and better working conditions in the informal economy.
It will also include a number of interventions targeted at micro- enterprises.
To roll-out the programme and as part of a package to improve the sustainability of enterprises, a Training of Trainers for the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme was recently conducted in Gweru, in the Midlands Province.
SIYB is an ILO management-training programme with a focus on starting and improving small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment. The SIYB Programme consists of four inter-related training packages called Generate Your Business Idea (GYB), Start Your Business (SYB), Improve Your Business (IYB) and Expand Your Business (EYB).
The SIYB programme aims at increasing the viability of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through management principles suitable for the environment of developing countries. .
Facilitated by former beneficiaries of the ILO Master Trainers’ programme, Ms Sibongile Sibanda and Ms Vivian Mtetwa, the training placed great emphasis on understanding the unique needs of entrepreneurs operating in the informal economy to ensure the support they receive is well suited to their needs.
Following this training, it is expected that these local Business Development Service (BDS) providers will be better positioned to effectively and independently implement business startup and improvement training for entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds.
Starting in March 2020, these trainers will train 200 potential and existing small entrepreneurs, both women and men, adults and youth, to start viable businesses, to increase the viability of existing enterprises, and to create quality employment for others in the process.
The participants were drawn from institutions that provide business management training to entrepreneurs in Bulawayo; Matabeleland South and Matabeleland North provinces. Some of the organizations that benefited from the capacity building include the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development; Junior Achievement Zimbabwe; Bulawayo Projects Centre; Tech Village; Old Mutual and the City of Bulawayo.
The programme has an overall aim of promoting the creation and sustainability of enterprises and decent jobs in the formal economy. It will provide hands-on and practical guidance on how to promote higher productivity and better working conditions in the informal economy.
It will also include a number of interventions targeted at micro- enterprises.
To roll-out the programme and as part of a package to improve the sustainability of enterprises, a Training of Trainers for the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme was recently conducted in Gweru, in the Midlands Province.
SIYB is an ILO management-training programme with a focus on starting and improving small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment. The SIYB Programme consists of four inter-related training packages called Generate Your Business Idea (GYB), Start Your Business (SYB), Improve Your Business (IYB) and Expand Your Business (EYB).
The SIYB programme aims at increasing the viability of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through management principles suitable for the environment of developing countries. .
Facilitated by former beneficiaries of the ILO Master Trainers’ programme, Ms Sibongile Sibanda and Ms Vivian Mtetwa, the training placed great emphasis on understanding the unique needs of entrepreneurs operating in the informal economy to ensure the support they receive is well suited to their needs.
Following this training, it is expected that these local Business Development Service (BDS) providers will be better positioned to effectively and independently implement business startup and improvement training for entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds.
Starting in March 2020, these trainers will train 200 potential and existing small entrepreneurs, both women and men, adults and youth, to start viable businesses, to increase the viability of existing enterprises, and to create quality employment for others in the process.
The participants were drawn from institutions that provide business management training to entrepreneurs in Bulawayo; Matabeleland South and Matabeleland North provinces. Some of the organizations that benefited from the capacity building include the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development; Junior Achievement Zimbabwe; Bulawayo Projects Centre; Tech Village; Old Mutual and the City of Bulawayo.