Training:

The Small and Micro-Enterprises Development Unit is continuously providing various types of training programs that renders education, knowledge and miscellaneous skills acquirement in the microfinance industry, in addition to bestowing various types of technical support that aims at capacity building and strengthening of the institutional building to microfinance programs and corporations that would enable them providing their services in the best international practices and at the same time secure sustainability of credit services to the targeted groups.

Normally, the process of planning for training and institutional building is initiated by identifying the training gap and assessing the position of the programs and institutions with regard to institutional aspects, scope of acquired skills and skills practiced in the field.  In pursuance with the above, an adequate plan is developed, that include a number of training courses which consist of the specific and general goals, as well as the targeted groups, periods of convening the training programs.  Thus, adequate funds are allocated and necessary support to secure accomplishment of the activities.  Necessary arrangements are taken to identify the type of consultancies and expertise that are needed to encounter any contingent deficiency or requirement that is to be implemented to support institutional building of any institution or program, whereby the final out output of a financing program/institution is to possess the maximum limit of the institutional power that is achieved by qualified cadres and applied operational rules and regulations.

 

Types of training may be divided into advanced training and basic training, which entail a number of different training courses, whereby some are convened in collaboration with a number of partners; such as the financing network (Sanabel) in the Arab Countries, in addition to a number of national consultants who possess training skills and proficient in the scientific subject.

 

The following table shows the major training courses implemented by the unit, in addition to development of other training subjects, that are to be used for support, according to the needs.