Zimba Women Business Training Programme

Zimba Women Business Training Programme: Entrepreneurship training to women in Business

Zimba Women Business Training Programme

The program was implemented by Zimba Women in partnership with the Innovation Village and Funzi aiming at creating a supportive environment for women-owned businesses in Uganda.

Funzi coordinated implementation and operation of the program hand in hand with its
partner on-site Zimba Women , an association aiming at empowering Ugandan women through technology.

Business Challenge

New female-owned business ventures fail in the first year mostly because of a low level of overall education and training; social factors that do not encourage entrepreneurship as a career path of choice.

Solution: Blended Learning

The project utilized Funzi Founder 101 Hub , a blended learning program that consisted of female business owners studying a mobile course and attending on-site sessions facilitated by Zimba Women. During the four months program, the women studied one course module as mobile learning, after which they attended an on-site training session that deepened the learning. Through practical tasks and activities, the on-site sessions took the women further in improving their own business ideas or their already existing businesses. The program focused on building entrepreneurial skills and a growth mindset in order to be a successful entrepreneur, and consisted of the following modules:

The Founder: The right entrepreneurial mindset and skill set of a successful entrepreneur

The Inventor: Identifying and developing ideas,solving customers’ problems by developing the right products or services, prototyping and testing, creating a Business Model Canvas

The Salesman: Storytelling, pitching, other communication skills, sales and marketing strategy

The Manager: Different forms of enterprise, what they mean for organizing the ownership and funding of a company, and choosing the right form of enterprise to best fit the entrepreneur’s vision.

The Banker: Managing costs, basic reporting requirements, understanding funding opportunities in different growth stages

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