The Community Entrepreneurship Programme (CEP) is one of the major programmes run CadifKenya.
It is organized for serving members of the community and its based on volunteers effort.
The only significant difference between this programme and the Youth Entrepreneurship Programme
(YEP) is the target audience.
The Community Entrepreneurship Programme (CEP) is a collaboration effort with
the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Kenya a programme
designed to equip youth members with the necessary skills to succeed in business.
The pilot phase of this programme (which covers only Nyanza province) is currently running.
We hope to expand this training to other provinces throughout Kenya in the forth
coming months and years.
The CEP programme lasts for a period of 3 months in which participants are
taught twenty courses core to entrepreneurial success.
We apply a very practical approach. The participants have to do a lot of course
work in order to graduate. Participants have to form groups, learn to work in
teams and develop investor-ready business plans. Most of the training is done
in the form of assignments. We ensure that our participants fully understand
what they are taught and hence the reason for paying critical attention on
continuous assessment.
Participants are also encouraged to network and get to know one another.
This has proven very effective in the past as it has lead to partnerships
amongst participants. One pair of trainees formed a catering outfit
together. Both were good at cooking while one was an exceptional saleswoman.
This is just an example of why we place so much emphasis on participants networking.
The courses we offer are as follows:
Business Plan Development (five modules)
Strategic Marketing
Book-keeping and Introduction to financial statements
The Community Entrepreneurship Programme has many benefits for participants, namely:
Generate income from running their own business
Obtain funding for their business
Learn to develop a winning, investor-ready business plan
Acquire excellent skills at rock bottom prices
Learn how to sell effectively
Discover the secrets of result-oriented marketing
Negotiate like a professional
Seize networking opportunities to forge relationships for life
Learn from successful entrepreneurs
Learn proven financial management principles that actually work
The programme theme is 'equipping participants with the entrepreneurial skills to
enable them build sustainable and profitable businesses'.
The objectives of the programme are to 'present, discuss and teach participants
necessary skills for succeeding in business in Kenya while providing opportunities
for accessing micro credit'.
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