Capacity Building for Entrepreneurs: OSAA’s Small Business Training & Support Program (2021)

Holding Small business training for all beneficiaries of our projects is one of the major and advanced programs of OSAA. Therefore, OSAA considered some activities for small businesses trainings and has the responsibility of raising awareness on starting and running a business for 13 vocations in Ansari’s vocational center and other VTCs in Enjil, Koshk-e-Robat Sangi and Islam Qala districts in cooperation with the Help Organization.OSAA In this program, explanations are provided for the beneficiaries about small businesses and professions.  Advanced courses such as How to lend, how to get a work permit training, as well as ancillary programs, including CV writing for beneficiaries were the sub activities of these trainings.  The OSAA tends to make a platform for trainees for being independent businessman through supporting the entrepreneurs and small Businesses.In order to holding small business trainings, OSAA hold Field Exposures. The purpose of this program is to make the beneficiaries more familiar with different professions and related private sectors. Within the framework of this program, trainees of VTCs (Ansari Center and Bozdan Centers, Kora-e-Mili, Chudangar, Islam Qala and Robat Sangi), including men and women, visited the factories operating in Herat Industrial Park, motorcycle repair workshops, women’s clothing production centers and etc. During this program, the technical team of the relevant departments, shared their working system and process with trainees.