What are the Main BEST Activities
- Conducting business management trainings to the micro-entrepreneurs
- Providing business loans to small scale entrepreneurs
- Identifying new income generating activities for her clients
- Providing gender awareness trainings and other cross-cutting issues
- Training of business generating ideas at low level of the entrepreneurs and business management
- Training of business management skills for the middle level entrepreneurs and business plans
- Training of developing business plans to the entrepreneurs
- To identify and promote income generating activities among business entrepreneurs
- To organize seminars /workshops on subjects relevant to small scale and medium entrepreneurs
- To supervise and advice clients’ businesses
- To organize exchange visits among entrepreneurs
Achievements
The training provided by BEST produced positive results in terms of successes attained by trained clients such as:
- Increase of income per household
- Empowering of women in decision making
- Doing businesses that are profitable
- Afford three balanced meals per day
- Children attend school properly
- More jobs have been created
- Houses have been improved and well furnished
- The ability to access loans from different institutions have increased among entrepreneurs
- Some of entrepreneurs have diversified their sources if income
Challenges
- Some of the entrepreneurs cannot read and write especially the poorest of the poor
- Insufficient resources to meet the clients’ needs especially the loan and seed grant