Start and Improve your Business (SIYB) resources
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Global highlights
SIYB Update 2020
27 October 2020
The “Start and Improve your Business (SIYB)” Update 2020 is out! This year’s update features news from 45 countries, as well as info on new global highlights.
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News
e-SIYB tools
21 July 2020
The introduction of new digital tools in the SIYB Programme
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Briefing note
Latin American SIYB Network Webinar
23 June 2020
Challenges for business development services provision in the context of Covid-19
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News
ILO’s intervention at webinar series “Employment and Entrepreneurship for Chinese Youth”
19 May 2020
The covid-19 pandemic has a severe impact on global youth employment. This is also true for the 8.74 million Chinese university graduates. The ILO is providing employment and entrepreneurship advice for the Chinese youth.
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Event
MANAGEMENT COURSE FOR CONSULTING AND TRAINING PROVIDERS
The aim of this course is to create a space in which consulting and training professionals (working primarily in development, and specifically in the micro and small-enterprise development sector) can learn how to improve the performance of their companies, firms or departments dealing with consultancy and training. They will be able to upgrade their professional standards and practices, and prepare a strategy for improving the sustainability of the unit they are managing.
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Event
ILO ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINERS ACADEMY
The ILO Entrepreneurship Trainers Academy is the first Trainers Academy offering participants the possibility of becoming certified trainers in three key ILO entrepreneurship training packages. The Academy combines intense training of trainers on both content- and methodological issues, and cannot be missed by any trainer working for a public or private institution striving to make a real difference in the lives of new or existing entrepreneurs. It is based on the most recent versions of SIYB and GET Ahead and the newly launched Financial Education package.
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video
SIYB programme in Chihuahua
28 November 2019
The SIYB Programme was implemented in the state of Chihuahua in 2016. 20 Trainers from different local authorities, Academy and business development providers were trained in GYB, SYB and IYB modules. As a result, many men and women facing unemployment and difficulties in re-entering the labour market, were trained in several SIYB modules, enabling them to start their own successful business. Take a look at testimonials in this video!
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Instructional material
SIYB Success stories
22 November 2019
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Publication
A rough guide to entrepreneurship promotion in forced displacement contexts
14 November 2019
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A Guide for Business Plan Competitions
Getting entrepreneurship contests right
23 May 2019