Deadline– 6 November, 2013
Ministry of External Affairs Government of India under ITEC/SCAAP Programme has announced Informal Sector Enterprise, Entrepreneurship & Local Economic Development. The goal of this program is to to address the challenges of population growth and concentration in the rural areas and cities.
Objectives-
- To provide the participants with necessary knowledge and skills to design and implement Local Economic Development strategies, in which informal enterprises and entrepreneurship development have significant roles;
- To equip with skills, tools and techniques to assess the state of territories/locality by identifying the strong elements, opportunities, weaknesses and threats;
- To provide the participants with skills to build social and business networks, increase motivational level of locals and promote growth of informal enterprises to formal;
- To provide the participants with skills to conduct locally customized EDPs and identifying local specific interventions and building strategies to implement the same.
Eligibility-
- Business/Industry Associations;
- Funding Agencies focusing on Informal Sector/Entrepreneurship
- Civil Society Organizations/NGOs;
- Professionals involved in managing development projects
- Government officials who are involved in Local Economic Development Programmes
- Supporting Institutions such as financial institutions, researchers, academicians and training organizations and
- Local entrepreneurs
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