Quick information guide

Areas often covered by business training:

  • Business plan development
  • Business management
  • Customer management
  • business mentorship
  • Budgeting
  • Loan management
  • Decision making
  • communication and negotiation

Other areas covered

Besides the business training, different organisations have adopted an integrated gender transformative approach whereby they also include awareness raising around gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights awareness raising.

Business training in Rwanda

Small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) play a very important role in economic development of every nation. Many developing nations lack a strong SME sector and that leads to high unemployment and low GDP per capita.

Rwanda has placed a high priority on the financial sector development and considers it as an integral way of transforming the country’s economy.

The political move promoting the country’s economic development has attracted the attention of different development stakeholders and investors.

They are intervening in different areas supporting Government’s orientation. Some are investing in incubating and nurturing SME development, offering portfolios of services that include business management training, financial literacy and others.

They are helping to prepare and nurture entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses with ethical values.

However, women and girls in business still face challenges when it comes to business skills.

 Improving their business skills is key to create a good business working environment that will empower them economically and contribute to the long-term sustainable development of the country.

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Pro-Femmes/Twese Hamwe

About Pro-Femmes/Twese Hamwe

Since its inception, PF/TH has carried out its role of advancing women’s cause with honor and integrity; implementing various projects all tailored to improve the status of Rwandan women and girls so as to empower them to play their rightful role in social-economic development of our country.

Since its inception, PF/TH has carried out its role of advancing women’s cause with honor and integrity; implementing various projects all tailored to improve the status of Rwandan women and girls so as to empower them to play their rightful role in social-economic development of our country.

Areas covered 

1. Business management

2.  Advocacy tactics

 

 

Additional services beneficial to women entrepreneurs 

These activities benefit women cross boarder traders

  • Field or learning visits mainly for women cross boarder traders.
  • Sensitisation of Women cross boarder traders (WICBTs) about existing opportunities for formal trade.
  • Train WICBTs in business and cooperative
  • Management.
  • Produce and distribute IEC materials for WICBTs with information on trade related regional and national laws, policies and Opportunities for them.
  • Facilitate WICBTs cooperatives to get information on funding from financial institutions.
  • Train WICBTs on writing business plans, value addition, and on value-cost and supply chain analysis.
  • Conduct study tours for selected WIBCTs cooperatives at Projects run by successful entrepreneurs.
  • Facilitate WCBT to participate in business exhibitions.
  • Conduct networking workshops between WICBTs in cooperatives and Medium and large processing industries/factories
  • National and regional advocacy for conducive working environment for women in business.
  • Development of position papers

Events organized Pro-Femmes/Twese Hamwe

 
  • Advocacy
  • Mass campaign
  • International women day celebration
  • 16 days of activism activities
  • Work with other partners for Genocide commemoration

Contacts

 

Emma Marie Bugingo
Executive Director
Gahanga sector, Kicukiro district

Emails:
Emmamarie.bugingo@yahoo.fr
Profemmes2013@gmail.com
profemmes2013@gmail.com

Website:www.profemmes.org
Tel +250788302510
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