Entrepreneurship: Four-year training programme started
Training is directed towards meeting the training and development need of entrepreneur managers of Fata.
ISLAMABAD:
A four-year training programme will help develop the skills of young entrepreneurs from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
The entrepreneurship training programme is directed towards meeting the training and development need of entrepreneur managers of Fata who earlier received 46 types of vocational training by Fata Development Authority (FDA).
The Institute of Rural Management (IRM) is jointly implementing the programme.
Under the programme, 5,200 young entrepreneurs will receive training. The programme was initiated in January with five-day entrepreneurship training in Azakhel, Peshawar.
The IRM will provide five-, 12- and 18-day trainings to the entrepreneurs on modules related to accounting, human resources, marketing and production development.
Training sessions on business management skills and career counselling will also be conducted.
After training, participants will be linked with microfinance institutes so they get access to financial assistance for establishing their own small scale enterprises.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2013.
A four-year training programme will help develop the skills of young entrepreneurs from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
The entrepreneurship training programme is directed towards meeting the training and development need of entrepreneur managers of Fata who earlier received 46 types of vocational training by Fata Development Authority (FDA).
The Institute of Rural Management (IRM) is jointly implementing the programme.
Under the programme, 5,200 young entrepreneurs will receive training. The programme was initiated in January with five-day entrepreneurship training in Azakhel, Peshawar.
The IRM will provide five-, 12- and 18-day trainings to the entrepreneurs on modules related to accounting, human resources, marketing and production development.
Training sessions on business management skills and career counselling will also be conducted.
After training, participants will be linked with microfinance institutes so they get access to financial assistance for establishing their own small scale enterprises.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2013.