NON FINANCIAL SERVICES
Al Majmoua’s Non-Financial Services comprise a variety of free trainings and social activities which play a complementary role in developing beneficiaries’ businesses and improving their quality of life and family conditions.
Our Non-Financial Services were introduced in 2006 and since then, have been offered free of charge to borrowers and non-borrowers, with priority to women and youth. These services include comprise Business Development Services, Product Quality Improvement and Marketing, Personal Development, and Provision of Toolkit and Equipment.
business development sevices
- Business Management Trainings: entrepreneurship, market study, SWOT analysis, business planning, management, marketing, promotion and legal registration.
- Financial Education Trainings: debts, budgeting and savings.
- Vocational Trainings: technical trainings to orient women towards new types of income-generating activities.
- Individual Business Diagnosis: in-depth business diagnosis and co-elaboration and implementation of short-term business action plans.
- Youth Entrepreneurship Program: leadership, entrepreneurship and business creation.
- Access to Wage-Earning Employment: employment in full-time jobs.
product quality improvement and marketing
- Product Quality Improvement and Control: Awareness sessions on food quality, hygiene and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) – designed specifically for food and agri-business micro-entrepreneurs.
- Supplier Trips: group trips to wholesale suppliers allowing clients to purchase raw materials at discounted prices.
- Marketing and Commercialization Support: assistance in designing basic market research, product labeling and packaging, organization of fairs and exhibitions to provide direct sales channels and larger market outreach.
personal development
- Personal Development Sessions: gender awareness, women economic rights, communication, self-confidence, decision-making and household budget management.
- Awareness Sessions: children rights, parents-children relations, domestic violence and health prevention.
- Networking: involving women beneficiaries in regional forums where they exchange experience and know-how, expand their network, and gain self-confidence and initiative.
provision of toolkit and equipment
- Delivery of business toolkits and start-up toolkits solutions.