Deadline: 20 October 2015
Wageningen UR Center for Development Innovation (CDI) will conduct short term course “Rural entrepreneurship” from 13-23 June 2016 in the Netherlands. Midcareer professionals of government departments, NGOs and civil society organisations, businesses, development agencies, universities and colleges for higher education, and individual consultants working in the domain of private sector and/or market driven development are invited to apply for the course.
This course on rural entrepreneurship centres around the Chain Wide Learning methodology (CWL), that consists of three components:
- a multi-stakeholder workshop in which producers in the value chain gather and share their issues and opportunities at functional chain levels;
- a strategic planning process in which the outputs of the workshop are used as inputs;
- a set of action plans to reduce transaction costs and/or exploit opportunities in the selected agrifood value chains.
During the course, you will get familiar with business planning tools to ensure that (new) business ventures are based on sound business principles, and practice your skills and new-learned tools on an actual case.
Upon completion of the course participants will
- Have become sensitive to imbalances within agrifood value chains and how these issues can be addressed;
- Have strengthened your capacity to promote market-driven rural wealth creation;
- Have strengthened your competence in the area of market access of small entrepreneurs;
- Have the ability to identify pro-poor, smallholder inclusive and/or gender-friendly agribusiness development opportunities;
- Be able to apply the tools that support private sector driven innovations in agrifood value chains.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be midcareer professionals of government departments, NGOs and civil society organisations, businesses, development agencies, universities and colleges for higher education, and individual consultants working in the domain of private sector and/or market driven development.
- Applicant must be citizen of an NFP country and employed in an NFP country to be eligible for Netherlands
- Applicants should have BSc or equivalent in relevant field.
- Proficiency in English is required.
For more information, please visit CID Course Rural Entrepreneurship.
