Vocational Training Program to Qualify Entrepreneurs and Small Business Setting Up and Management
The Unit of Excellence in Teaching and Learning together with the Students Activities Unit will be holding, in cooperation with the Educational Sciences Department in the College of Education in Zilfi ( female sections), a training program entitled Vocational Training to qualify business entrepreneurs and small business setting up and management and which will take place every week Tuesdays. The first workshop took place on Tuesday 21/1/1437 in the training room at the college under the direction of Dr. Mona Hamed Mohamed Abu Warda, assistant professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Educational Sciences. The program targeted the college students and had the following objectives: 1. Catering for the practical and strategic needs of the woman entrepreneur by endorsing her managerial skills. 2. Developing personal entrepreneurial qualities and fund-raising via groups and networks that support start-ups. The program is distinguished in terms of its focus on project management on the basis of social category and falls into three sections. The first one deals with the main aims and strategies as well as workshop management and organization. The second section includes training and preliminary activities and a the details of the training plan. The third section however is a description of resources and references for students. The training portfolio was prepared by ILO in cooperation with the UN WOMEN and the German Technical Cooperation Agency as well as other bodies. It adopts the logo "start and improve your business". THE WOMEN SMALL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS GO FORWARD training portfolio supports the social and economic empowerment of women. *Economic Empowerment: empowering low-income women to have training opportunities as they need administrative and negotiation skills to upgrade their activities to productive projects. Social Empowerment: building self-confidence skills to empower women to make their own decisions and rely on their own potentials.