Business Training - Madagascar

Capacity building for women entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Capacity building for women entrepreneurs is fundamental in terms of business revitalization since it allows them to acquire the knowledge and skills essential to the growth of their businesses.
Capacity building thus enables women entrepreneurs to learn more about the workings of entrepreneurship, in particular: economic empowerment, access to information, technical and managerial capacity building, financial decision-making, reduction risks in the face of borrowings, maximizing the company's profitability.

Institutions / Organizations providing Capacity Building Workshops to Women Entrepreneurs in Madagascar:

• Economic Development Board of Madagascar (EDBM): As an investment promotion agency, the Economic Development Board of Madagascar supports investors in their steps to set up and/or expand by providing them with dedicated services by Advisors specialized and also provides capacity building workshops, including Capacity Building Workshops in Entrepreneurship and Leadership for the Empowerment of Women and Youth held from 3 to 5 November 2019.

Telephone: +261 20 22 670 40 / +261 20 22 681 21
Email: edbm@edbm.mg
Website: edbm.mg
Address: Building EDBM, Avenue Gal Gabriel RAMANANTSOA Antaninarenina, Antananarivo 101 Madagascar

• Group of Women Entrepreneurs of Madagascar (GFEM): Group formed into an association created in 2016, it brings together 12 Associations and several women entrepreneurs from several regions of Madagascar. The companies in which they operate are spread over several areas including agribusiness, manufacturing, mining, logistics, communication, etc. Their main missions are to promote female entrepreneurship and create business opportunities, build the capacities of associations of women entrepreneurs and their members, representing and defending the interests of women entrepreneurs through partnership networks and ensuring the monitoring, sharing and capitalization of information relating to women's entrepreneurship. The GFEM thus provides training workshops capacity building focused on a Coaching & Mentoring program, funded by the Australian Embassy, a Coaching program: technical, Marketing & Commercial funded by PROCOM-UE, Training Workshops, Team Building as well as Seminars .

Telephone: +(261) 32 07 101 67
Email: contact@gfem-madagascar.com
Website: gfem-madagascar.com
Address: 5 Rue Pasteur Antanimena, Antananarivo Madagascar

• Entreprendre au Féminin Océan Indien (EFOI – Madagascar: First network of Malagasy women entrepreneurs, created in 2007. The organization currently has 15 branches scattered throughout Madagascar and about 250 members. EFOI also turns to other women, especially those of the rural world. It is a partner of the Federasion'ny Vehivavy Tantsaha Malagasy (FVTM), the network of rural women, in favor of which it intends to bring its support and thus support the development of Malagasy women. EFOI Madagascar is one of the beneficiaries of the Malagasy private sector support program (PROCOM) funded by the European Union and also provides capacity building focused on the consolidation of basic skills and thus so that each woman entrepreneur can best promote their entrepreneurial activities.

Telephone: (+261) 34 03 269 25
Email: efoi-contact@efoi-madagascar.com
Address: General Stores Enclosure 5 Avenue Pasteur - Antanimena Antananarivo 101

• National Council of Malagasy Women (CNFM): The CNFM is an quotumbrellaquot organization that brings together women's associations of all origins working on Malagasy territory. Apolitical, non-confessional, it exercises a role of consultation and mobilization within women's movements. Among these various areas of expertise, the CNFM also provides capacity building workshops aimed at empowering women.

Telephone: (261) 034 06 505 74
Email: cnfm.cif@gmail.com
Website: cnfmadagascar.wordpress.com
Address: VG 44 Ter, Antsahabe - 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar

• Fanainga formerly known as the Multi-donor Common Fund for Support to Malagasy Civil Society: Fanainga is an innovative support program for Malagasy civil society, so that it can become a key player in development for people and of the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in Madagascar while encouraging the participation of women and young people. Fanainga thus offers learning-by-doing paths, networking paths, exchanges of information and experiences, multi-stakeholder dialogues, capacity building, funding mechanisms for innovative initiatives, specific to CSOs, in co-creation of a vision of change with the community, promoting citizenship and social and democratic accountability.

Phone: +261 20 22 427 20
Website: https://fanainga.mg
Email: info.fanainga@gmail.com
Facebook: Fanainga

• IECD: The IECD is a development aid organization which operates in fifteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Near East & North Africa region, in the Indian Ocean and in South-East Asia. Since its creation in 1988, the IECD and its teams have pursued their mission of “Sowers of the future” in the field. Entrepreneurs in human and economic development, they build, with local partners, environments favorable to the revelation of each person's talents. The ambition of the IECD is to provide beneficiaries with the essential know-how to improve their living conditions, become responsible actors in their country and contribute to making society fairer. The IECD has developed recognized expertise in 3 areas of intervention: Education, Training & professional integration, and Entrepreneurship. At the same time, since 2006 the IECD has been fighting a fight close to its heart: sickle cell disease.

Madagascar is a flagship country for the IECD, which has been implementing projects there since 1989.

Over time, the IECD has developed innovative solutions to meet the needs identified in the areas of access to education for children in rural areas and vocational and technical training for young people. In 2013, the IECD then started its support programs for small businesses in the suburbs of Antananarivo. The sickle cell disease program was also rolled out across the country in 2014.

Contact the IECD team in Antananarivo :
Address: Ambatoroka Campus – UCM Enclosure – Antananarivo 101 – Madagascar

Contact the SESAME team in Antananarivo:
Contact person: François-Xavier Huard, director of the SESAME system
Email: fx.huard@iecd.org
Telephone: + 261 (0)34 83 080 82

Contact the CERES team in Fianarantsoa:
Contact person: Alix Mouret
Email: alix.mouret@iecd.org
https://www.iecd.org/zones-dintervention/ocean-indien/madagascar/

• FERT: Fert's mission is to contribute to the agricultural development of developing and emerging countries. Programs in Madagascar: (a) Local agricultural advice and professional structuring in 4 regions of southern Madagascar, (b) Support for the strengthening of professional peasant structuring via support from FIFATA and 8 peasant organizations (c) development of decentralized systems funding for agriculture via ICAR, (d) Establishment of pilot regional agricultural development funds in 4 regions, (e) Capacity building for dairy farmers in the Rova cooperative union, Training of agricultural advisers, (f ) Support for the organization and structuring of the fruit and vegetable sector through support for the Fruit and Vegetable Experimentation and Training Center (CEFFEL), (g) Initial training of young people in agricultural colleges and support for outgoing.

Representative in Madagascar: Solange RAJAONAH
Email: fert@moov.mg
Website: https://www.fert.fr/actions/madagascar/

• INTERAIDE: In rural areas, Interaide runs 4 programs to strengthen the agricultural production capacities of rural families, in partnership with the Fagnimbona farmers' federation. These programs include two components: popularization of techniques and varieties (support for food production, establishment of irrigated micro-perimeters) and peasant structuring (training of grassroots groups).

Email: interaide@interaide.org
Website: http://interaide.org/nos-zones-dintervention/madagascar/