Vietnamese business development providers trained on use of Inclusive Business Accelerator toolkit
The Inclusive Business Accelerator (IBA) program successfully organized a training course on Inclusive Business (IB) Tools and Services in Hanoi, Vietnam. A total of eleven Business Development Service providers and five SNV staff received trainings on essential and recognised skills for IB consultancy.
The three day training event was carried out from the 11th to the 13th August and had the objective of strengthening the advisory competencies of Business Development Service providers (BDS). By completing this training, participants are now eligible to formally apply for the IBA certification process and are one step closer to becoming the preferred advisors of IBA clients.
Standardised toolkit
The participants received access to an internally standardised toolkit and an in-depth explanation on the value-adding potentialities of each tool. Additionally, the participants were granted the opportunity to practically apply these tools on carefully prepared and fictitious cases and assignments.
As a result, the service providers and staff involved not only received formal coaching by IBA trainers, but also the possibility of working with each other in small groups in order to jointly generate value propositions for IB services towards small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The group work and networking enabled participants to share relevant experiences and to jointly consider the applicability of IB advisory services to SMEs in the Vietnamese context.
The IB Accelerator network will enable local business development support offices to provide state of the art services, certified by the IB Accelerator.
The tools provide support to inclusive business ventures at three levels:
- Strengthen the position in the market;
- Making the organization future proof; and
- Help finding access to investments.
The IB Accelerator toolkit that is currently being introduced is meant for business development services for relatively small SMEs that require upgrading of their business plans. The next step will be to develop a toolkit that will focus primarily on business development in innovative companies and support them in the process of product development and incubation, as well as production processes. In the future, there will be a toolkit targeted at coalitions of enterprises and NGOs making concerted efforts to change value chains to improve inclusiveness of sectors.
View photos of the training.
Read about the same training we organized in Mozambique.
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