Credit and Finance for Micro and Small Enterprises
 
The course proposed to provide a much needed platform to share experiences amongst policy makers, bankers and women development agencies and thereby help to evolve need-based credit schemes for economic development of women. The purpose of the training programme is to bring together a group of people who wish to share their experiences and learn. The end result is anticipated to be increased flow of credit to the poor, especially women.

Training of Facilitators for Women Entrepreneurship
 
The programme provides and opportunity to functionaries working in diverse institutional situations; programmes and project based governmental and non-governmental organizations to acquire a thorough grounding in conceptual, analytical and applied techniques relevant to the responsibilities not only in the field of women entrepreneurship but to several women’s economic development issues.

Capacity Building for Managers of Women Economic Development (WED) programmes in GOs and NGOs
 
The objective of this programme is to develop expertise within the existing organizations for more effective management in planning and implementation of women economic development activities/programmes. This has focused to strengthen manpower/human resource capabilities of these organizations to initiate, integrate and implement self-sustaining women economic development activities within their existing programs and also to help the participants to develop techniques for formulating strategies to revive the existing enterprises.

Group Entrepreneurship and Co-operatives for Rural Women
 
This programme aims to equip the participants with grassroots level experiences and strategies to motivate, train and support rural women groups. The specific objectives being to provide training for leading rural women groups towards income generation/self employment and also to develop the skills of identifying, motivating and training illiterate poor rural women for developing their entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities.

Training of Trainers for Women Economic Empowerment
 
This programme provides an opportunity to functionaries working in diverse institutional situations; programme and project based governmental and non-governmental organizations, to acquire a thorough grounding in conceptual, analytical and applied techniques relevant to their responsibilities not only in the field of women economic empowerment, but to several women’s economic development issues. This programme aims to create a pool of professionally trained trainers in order to consolidate manpower resources of institutions and developmental agencies for greater diffusion of this movement of women’s economic empowerment.

Training of Trainers for Gender and Development
 
This programme aims to enable participants to be well equipped with gender and development aspects at individual/organizational levels. It also helps to comprehensively conceptualist and understand gender issues and its relevance to projects and actual work/impact of the project. The overall objective is to reinforce participants motivation and abilities to development training skills aimed at promoting sustainable development by integrating gender issues in their projects.

Income Generation for Poverty Alleviation
 
This programme aims to equip the participants with grassroots level experiences and strategies to motivate, train and support the poor. This provide training for leading the poor towards income generation/self-employment and also to develop skills for identifying, motivating, and training the poor for developing their entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities. This programme will help build institutional capabilities, and provide definitive skills to rural functionaries, community development workers/officers, and trainers or extension officers, for initiating and implementing similar programmes in their countries.

Training of Trainers for Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Micro Enterprise Development
 
This programme would enable development of the skills of professional trainers to support, guide and train the grassroots people to create sustainable micro enterprises. A comprehensive approach has been designed for capacity building of the poor for product identification, technology orientation and managing skills for micro-enterprises. This programme has been designed based on the centre’s rich experiences of training and research at national and international levels.

Integrating Gender for Equitable Development
 
Gender training is one of the strategies used to promote justice within the development process. This will bring about a social transformation by incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of project analysis and planning. The demand for mainstreaming gender in the policies, programmes, organizational set up, culture as well as management styles requires creative answers. In response to this challenge, ICECD offers programme for Integrating Gender for Equitable Development. This programme is designed for managers, coordinators, senior staff, gender experts, trainers and consultants engaged in developmental activities. They will be men and women expected to incorporate a gender perspective in the decision making process within governmental, non governmental and international organizations, rural developmental projects, training institutions as well as donor agencies.

Programme for Developing effective Business Development Services – BDS (for small and micro enterprises – beyond credit)
 
The objective of this programme is to develop capability of interested development organizations and facilitating adoption of effective business development services for development of SMEs. The proposed programme aims to focus on providing skills and knowledge to design and manage BDS interventions, alongwith conceptual and practical understanding of varieties of BDS encompassing supply and demand driven interventions for creating micro/small entrepreneurs. The participating agencies will be equipped to develop and implement appropriate BDS for men and women, keeping a balanced gender perspective in consideration.

Small Business/Enterprise Promotion Through Appropriate Technology
 
This programme was designed based on ICECD's 15 years expereinces in promoting non-conventional technologies like packaging, plastics, food products, garments and hosiery, leather and rexine products, hand-made products, stapler pins, salt making etc. This programme will provide training in entrepreneurship and technology for enabling participants to promoteSMEs using such technologies. These are proven technologies wherein entrepreneurs earn Us $ 650 to US $ 4000 per year.

Capacity Building for Providing Sustainable Livelihood
 
With increasing initiatives to promote micro enterprises and micro credit, the primary concern is to identify capable poor, viable projects and provide appropriate linkages for market and technology. For this task, upgrading the skills of functionaries of involved agencies is necessary for multiplier impact. This program is, thus conceived to consolidate the capabilities of such agencies and eliminate the gap between the requisite specialized skills and the existing capabilities. As a result, they will not only successfully initiate and implement the livelihood support programmes, but also appropriately utilize the local schemes and funds available through various existing programmes in the country. ICECD's experiences over the years in developing economic self-sufficiency for innumerable poor has finally made it possible to evolve need-based, tested and validated strategies and training modules. Therefore this program aims to provide opportunities for strengthening and expanding economic activities in a sustainable manner for better livelihood for poor.

Building Community based Micro Finance Systems
 

ICECD has been promoting micro enterprises with micro credit support through SHGs since many years. It has adopted a successful approach not only of extending micro credit to SHGs but also of creating micro enterprise and providing adequate income to the deprived people to facilitate them to come out of their poverty. The program has been designed to share successful strategies and approaches to build community based micro finance organizations.

The program is designed to appraise and train all those who wish to initiate, design and implement micro finance program for the poor, through creation of a community based micro finance organization (or through existing organizations by adopting these strategies).


Improving effectiveness of Business Development Services
 

This programme focusing on enhancing capabilities of BDS providers, providing skills and knowledge to effectively disseminate quality services, and manage BDS interventions along with conceptual and practical understanding of varieties of business services involving the demand and supply requirements and gaps especially in the micro and small enterprise sector.

With the increasing demand on Gos/NGOs to adopt and execute professional approaches to different services, it is imperative that they build their capacity to design and deliver appropriate BDS to their clients and also improve the outreach, sustainability and impact of services delivered. The participating agencies will be able to develop market oriented self-sustaining BDS by using an innovative blend of better management techniques, new technologies and novel approaches.

Your role as a specialist in Women Entrepreneurship
 

The prime objective of this programme is to create better understanding of Women Entrepreneurship Development strategies and develop requisite knowledge and skills in the participants. The programme prioritizes to develop skills within country for designing and successfully conducting WED programs for women hailing from various strata of the society (poor, low, income, middle income), to re-organize the welfare-oriented approach to result-oriented empowerment approach for economic development of women, to train specialists/facilitators of developing countries who may, in turn initiate and successfully implement the programs in their respective countries and to create a pool of professionally trained specialists in order to consolidate manpoer resources of institutions and developmental agencies for greater diffusion of this movement of women's economic empowerment.