Training

TECHNICAL PROPOSAL

For

Business Plan Development Training for Climate-Smart IGAs

Objective of the assignment

The primary objective is to facilitate a 3-day workshop for three batches (75 participants total) to transition their technical IGA skills into viable, risk-sensitive business models. Key objectives of the training are:

Integrating Climate Resilience: To build the capacity of the participants on shifting from reactive crisis management to proactive business planning that incorporates weather-smart and climate stress-tolerant entrepreneurship and technologies.
Enhancing Profitability: To foster the creation of sustainable, profitable IGAs that go beyond subsistence, focusing on market demand, quality control, and value-added processing.
Capacity Building: To build the capacity of the participants on business operation, management, loss and profit management.

Key Components of the Training Workshop

The workshop typically covers the following crucial areas:

Inclusive Business Planning: Moving beyond traditional models to ensure the business plan accounts for reasonable accommodations, accessible locations, and specific support needs of entrepreneurs with disabilities.
Climate-Smart IGA Techniques: Train the participants on sustainable practices, such as using homestead gardens, raised garden beds, crab pattening, horticulture, livestock, poultry, water-efficient tools, and resilient crop varieties that can withstand climate shocks (e.g., salinity, waterlogging, heat stress, cyclone, etc.).
Financial Literacy and Management: Covering cost-benefit analysis, savings, budgeting, accessing credit, and managing income to ensure economic sustainability.
Market Analysis and Networking: Identifying profitable, local, and accessible markets for products, and building connections with buyers and suppliers.
Accessible Technology and Tools: Introducing assistive technologies that cater to different sensory, physical, or cognitive disabilities to make production possible.

Core Approaches in the Training

“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Ensuring people with disabilities are co-designers, leaders, and active participants, not just passive recipients.
Twin-Track Approach: Mainstreaming disability into existing business training while providing targeted support (specific tools or grants).
Participatory & Interactive Methods: Utilizing adult learning techniques, visual aids, and peer learning for effective training.