Description
GIZ Egypt & Womenpreneur are delighted to invite you to participate at the Fit4Market Program, a program for women’s service providers in Egypt provides targeted training and tools for participants to tap into their full economic potential.
A seven-days intensive program to strengthen and increase your business skills
For 20 women's service providers from Egypt
Applications from these sectors are preferred : Agri Business & Food Processing, Social business, Engineering/ Construction, Medical & Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Packaging and printing, Chemical industries and Services & Technology
Training and support in four areas:
Business resilience
Crafting Service Proposals
Branding and Marketing
Sustainable Service Growth
This seven-days, in-person training program will guide female service providers through exercises and workshops designed to strengthen and increase their business skills and knowledge while ensuring their services are prepared to scale up upon completing the program’s activities.
Objectives of the program:
Promoting women’s entrepreneurial activities in Egypt ;
Provide women’s service providers with all the necessary tools for their services to grow and develop innovative processes and products ;
Strengthen their resilience.
At the end of the program, successful participants will receive a Certificate of Achievement upon completion of all deliverables.
Selection Criteria :
Beneficiaries must be public or private service provider agencies or business consultancies owned and led by women, women business support organisations such as women business associations, female freelancers or consultants living and working in Egypt ;
Beneficiaries must have business that has existed for at least one year ;
Beneficiaries must have a business in one of the following areas: Agri Business & Food Processing, Social business, Engineering/ Construction, Medical & Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Packaging and printing, Chemical industries and Services & Technology ;
Beneficiaries must be able to commit to the full one-week training and subsequent follow-up activities ;
Beneficiaries must be committed to continued networking, mentorship, and engagement with the Womenpreneur & GIZ communities ;
Beneficiaries must have their laptops.
Selection Process :
The selection process will take place in two rounds.
In the first round an application will be published online through Google Forms that will require prospect participants to provide information about themselves and their business and take a short knowledge test on the program’s focus areas (Crafting Service Proposals, Branding, Business resilience, Sustainability). Application deadline : November 25, 2023. at 11:59PM.
At the end of the first round, an independent jury will select 30 women that will pass on to the second round of selection.
In this round, the selected women will be interviewed according to the before mentioned selection criteria by the independent jury and, eventually, 20 of them will be accepted to the take part in the F4M program.
Timeline
Application: Applications are open from October 3, 2023 to November 25, 2023 at 11:59 pm.
Results: The 20 candidates selected to participate in the program will be contacted the week of 4th December 2023.
Program in cairo: The program will take place from 5 to 13 February 2024 in Cairo (taking place in mornings only then followed by lunch).
Coaching: After the training period, there will also be a coaching and networking period, and support from Womenpreneur.
Follow up session: 22nd April 2024, follow up session.
Submissions will be prioritized from applicants who come from diverse or marginalized backgrounds.
Find application form here