Oromiffa

Helping Small Business

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Practical Group BDS session on Finance and Accounting

As part of its works to support MSMEs in realizing their full potential, EDC delivers hands on group business development support services to its clients that come with a critical gap in the areas of business operation, HR, finance and accounting, marketing and customer handling. This batch of clients own and run their own enterprises and took part in the aforementioned support services. These group sessions are practice oriented in which each client sets an action plan to implement the concepts they have gained to turn it into a real time working document for their respective enterprises.

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Group BDS Training One- to- One BDS On demand BDS

The Business Development Service (BDS) department’s goal is to support the establishment of new SMEs and enhance growth of existing ones which will result in improved productivity and job creation for the country. This will be achieved through the provision of continuous business advisory service.

EDC provides various entrepreneurship training packages in order to increase the capacity (skill and competency) of entrepreneurs. The types of training packages that EDC provides to entrepreneurs include:

· Entrepreneurship Training Workshop
·    Customized Entrepreneurship Training
·    Women Entrepreneurship Training
·    Youth Entrepreneurship Training
·    Rural Entrepreneurship Training
EDC’s training programmes are offered in Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, and Tigrigna.

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“Trainings and business development services offered by the Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) encourage female to go out of their home and start small businesses which they can expand in the future via exclusive coaching and mentorship in the areas like financial
management, and advertising and so on. ”

Frehiwot Abebe From Oromia

“My lifestyle and business attitude started to change from the first day of the training. Honestly speaking the training helped me to look back on my hidden potentials and opportunities those previously gone without doing anything...”

Bisrat Woldegebriel From SNNPR

“I would like to express my in lent to use EDC as a network hub with entrepreneurs and also to get insights on entrepreneurship exposure and
announcements,regarding its service I am proud to explain how open mind and supportive staff are at EDC and an open
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Mulunesh Jebessa From Addis Ababa

“I am engaged in Greenery & Beautification, and Sewerage system. After getting Business Advisory and Entrepreneurship training from EDC, I have raised my capital to 900,000ETB, hired 150 employees and bought 3 sewage trucks....”

Aregawi G/Georgis From Tigray

“EDC is the secret of success for me, I get all results because I get EDC’s training and business development support. Before I get EDC’s support I was working informally in the household level, but after getting EDC’s supports I become legal and get market coverage in
my town and across the region....”