Empowering Entrepreneurs, Building Futures
Empowering Entrepreneurs, Building Futures
Our mission is to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all. We are dedicated to achieving this through four core strategies:
Our goal is to equip individuals with a diverse set of competencies that meet the evolving demands of the workforce.
Our primary focus is on harnessing the power of entrepreneurial and MSME support to drive sustainable economic growth. We employ the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) model to empower Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary for launching and expanding successful ventures. This approach not only nurtures business acumen but also fosters innovation and improvement across the entrepreneurial spectrum.
Complementing our commitment to business development, we actively promote careers in STEM, particularly to high school students through engaging and innovative holiday STEM bootcamps. These programs are designed to spark interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, targeting a diverse cohort of young enthusiasts with a special emphasis on empowering women and promoting gender equality.
Our aim is to cultivate a generation of future leaders equipped with a comprehensive skill set that encompasses not only STEM disciplines but also blue and green job competencies, work preparedness, and life skills, essential for thriving in the modern workforce and championing women-led enterprises
Potential beneficiaries’ are assisted to choose a concrete and feasible business idea that is ready for actualization. The ultimate outputs include a successful pitching process, a completed
business canvas model, and the approved business plan.
The entrepreneurs’ go through a training to enhance their readiness to launch their business. Among the practical activities include making necessary registrations and obtaining licenses. They are
provided with start-up toolkits such as initial capital and tools of trade.
Operational businesses are guided, trained, and assisted on issues such as planning, budgeting, and stock control. The idea is to convert the theory they studied in GYBI and SYB into practice through mentorship and linkages.
Growth-minded MSMEs are supported to expand from their local markets/communities. Aspects of business processes, advanced marketing, people management, partnerships, external funding,
credit facilities, market/segmentation, and so forth are brough to perspective
and progressively implemented.
With the overriding goal of developing new MSMEs and improving new ones by auditing their businesses processes with the aim of bridging operational gaps, it is imperative to have an adaptable and flexible approach.
In our case, when developing and delivering GYBI, SYB, IYB, and EYB modules for each cohort, a six-step method is followed from pre-training to training and post-training phases.
At every stage, cross-cutting factors of gender inclusivity, technology, as well as monitoring, evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) are incorporated.
