• Develop a Professional Practice in Your Discipline with Our Social Entrepreneurship Business Course.

 As societies evolve, the needs and demands of one generation change for the next. Citizens must keep up with these changes to reflect the new realities. Over the last two decades, social entrepreneurship and civic innovation has emerged as a recognizable field in development work. As a result, creative young men and women are becoming involved in solving pressing local and global problems with innovative and practical solutions that create business opportunities

Whatever is your discipline?

Our social entrepreneurship training provides an opportunity for individuals of any discipline to develop critical skills and competencies to pioneer innovations that benefit humanity.

Participants will develop the knowledge, skills and attributes in their disciplines to create and run their own business platforms that address society’s complex and intractable problems and earn in the process or even qualify to fill any management role in any local or international development organization.

 

Course Background

Social Entrepreneurship and Civic Innovation Training is the Institute’s programme that promotes job creation, career and employment initiatives in the social sector. Participants are trained to become social entrepreneurs and innovators who can create new economic opportunities by starting and managing their own business platforms that address social problems facing the nation.

 

The training will help participants to build the necessary knowledge and skills to identify opportunities, trends and possibilities, generate ideas, proffer solutions, launch and advance their passion by creating new businesses that employ entrepreneurial principles in tackling many national and global social problems.

Course Overview

This course will focus on

·      Training participants to become social entrepreneurs and innovators

·    Empowering participants with knowledge and skills required to develop innovative solutions to societal problems and challenges

·  Developing participants’ capacity to create, start and manage their own social enterprises

Goal: The Goal of this training is:

v To promote the growth of social enterprises as key to addressing unemployment and hastening socio-economic advancement of the nation.

Who Is This Programme For?

·    The training programme target students, graduates, corps members, unemployed youths, professionals and individuals with interest in social entrepreneurship and civic innovation.

 Course Content

Basic modules/topics to be covered in the training include:

·        The  Evolution of Social Enterprise Business Model

·        The Conventional Business Concept and the Social Entrepreneurship/Social Venturing.

·        Social Enterprise Development And Job Creation

·        Social Entrepreneurs and The Power of Disruptive Innovation

·        Societal Problems as Opportunities for Civic Innovators

·        Key Elements to Designing A Successful Social Venture

·        Starting A Social Enterprise

·        Uncovering PASSION and Choosing a  CAUSE

·        Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Development

·        Value Creation in Social Entrepreneurship.

·        Programme Development for Social Organizations

·        Governance and Management Structure in a Social Organization

 Strong Faculty Mentoring

Our greatest strength is our faculty. The Institute has a team of highly skilled professionals and trainers who are committed to development education. The faculty comes from diverse background including government, development agencies, non-Governmental organizations (NGOs), and various institutions of higher learning, corporate bodies and international development organizations.  Participants will receive personalized guidance from experienced faculty members.

 Certification:

Upon successful completion of the course, participants are awarded certificate of participation based on their regular and prompt attendance of all sessions, group meetings, and their involvement in assignments and group discussions. If a participant misses a number of sessions or workshops, the Institute reserves the right to withhold certification.

 Standard Entry Requirement/Eligibility

Our primary concern is that applicants should be able to demonstrate the ability to succeed in the course. If an applicant does not have formal educational qualification of up to a diploma certificate level, the Institute will assess his/her relevant practical experience, alongside evidence of commitment and ability to succeed on the course.

 Course Structure:

The Institute conducts courses throughout the year, designed to meet the needs of different groups and individuals including those without prior academic qualification but have work-based experience.

Training Schedule:

Plan	Time Table	Fees	Duration
Regular	9am-3pm	_	One Month. Daily (Mondays-Fridays)   2months (3Days/WK.      6 Months (Weekends 4Saturdays/M)
Fast-Track	9am-5pm	_	Two-Weeks (Mondays-Fridays Daily)
Executive/In-house Training     Individual Training         Online Classes	9am -5pm         Client Time Schedule         24 hours	_           _	One-Week (Mondays-Fridays)       Based on Course Curriculum         @ Client’s Pace

 

Note * The Two-week course is exhaustive, compact and offers the benefits of our regular plan and much more.

Kindly confirm your participation with:

Community Development Institute | CDI Nigeria

Block 1, Suite B, Beside GT Bank,

University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Road,

Gwagwalada,

FCT - Abuja.

Nigeria.      

           

E-mail: info@cdinigeria.org

Website: www.cdinigeria.org

 

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Phone: +234 (0) 816-580-7273