Trainings for Coops in the North

Training Topics

- Basic financial literacy, business skills, market linkages, and business development services.
- Technical and Practical for processors.

Outcomes
The following outcomes are what the activity aims to achieve within the basic financial literacy, business skills, market linkages, and business development services topics:
- To ensure that trainees know how to set a business plan with SMART targets and how to use accurate financial records and systems.
- To ensure that trainees have knowledge of market access and visibility.
- To ensure that trainees have learned how to reduce cost.
- To ensure that trainees know how to use technology transfer.
- To ensure that trainees know how to manage stock, procurement of inputs, and pricing.
- To ensure that trainees are familiar with alternative financing mechanisms.
- To ensure that trainees are able to practice corporate social responsibility (CSR) and climate change.

The following outcomes are what the activity aims to achieve within the technical and practical topic:
- To ensure that trainees understand the basics of cost-effective agrofood production.
- To ensure that trainees learned new techniques to improve their production.
- To ensure that trainees are familiar with climate adaptation practices.
- To ensure that trainees know the advantages of agrofood technology and digitalization.

Deliverables

To conduct training sessions

- 40 hours per group of business skills training for 3 groups of cooperatives (in total 120 hours).
- 40 hours per group of technical and practical training for 3 groups of cooperatives (in total 120 hours).

A total of 240 hours, therefore 60 days of training.