Training and technical assistance (TA) services develop the capacity of enterprises to better plan and manage their operations and improve their technical expertise. These services develop sustainable training and TA products that SEs find useful and are willing to pay for and they also facilitate links between service providers and enterprises.
Training and technical assistance may be delivered on any topic—marketing, technology applications, product development, etc. The most common foci of training and technical assistance, however, are business planning and management. There are also a wide variety of strategies for sustainable delivery of training and technical assistance ranging from building the capacity of training organizations to developing the training market with discount vouchers. This section covers the following topics
§ Sustainable training & technical assistance delivery strategies
§ Training & TA for business owners (with links to training curricula on subjects such as business planning, accounting, marketing, etc.)
§ Lessons learned in adult education (common methodologies appropriate for training SEs and transferring skills to small enterprise owners in developing countries)
§ Commercial radio programs that provide business links, advocacy, and business management training