• 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

 

Or Call

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

Promoting Social Enterprise Education, Training and Mentoring as A Panacea to Youth Unemployment.

 

Youths have often cited that the desire to get a well-paying job is a major reason for attending higher institution. However, getting such jobs after graduation into any organization is not an easy task. With the dramatic expansion of higher education in recent decades, and with over 200,000 graduates of various disciplines who are discharged annually from the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the labour market has become more competitive than ever. Statistics indicate that less than ten percent of these graduates are actually employed. While a good number of them engage themselves in a waiting game, expecting that luck will one day smile at them, others get involved in one form of menial job or the other to keep body and soul together.

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world, with an estimated 206 million inhabitants as of late 2019 -Wikipedia. Nigeria has the third-largest youth population in the world, after India and China, with more than 90 million of its population under the age of eighteen –Wikipedia.

Unemployment in Nigeria looms large and its consequences are huge, especially as youths are the worst hit. While the consequences of massive youth unemployment may be detrimental, youths can be part of the solution, rather than the problem. Youths can be motivated to play a role in their own development as well as the development of their communities. There is need to promote the role of youths as agents of positive change, and be treated as assets, rather than liabilities. Youths have what it takes - the ideas, energy and creativity to transform their communities and the nation – but only if they are given the opportunities to do so.

Former President of America, Barack Obama suggests that youths should see themselves as entrepreneurs, inventors, and organizers. He adds that youths should be willing to solve important public problems in creative and meaningful ways, adding that they “must imbibe the values of imagination and fearlessness in bringing bold ideas to bear on the most pressing problems we face, by creating a stronger and more sustainable solutions”.

Therefore, providing training and education on social entrepreneurship and civic innovation will help to address youth/graduate unemployment in the country. With the numerous social challenges facing the nation, the field presents vast career opportunities for creative men and women with fresh ideas for addressing these social problems.  However, the sector has remained largely unexplored in job creation, particularly for the teeming youth population? Currently, there is lack of social entrepreneurship and civic innovation training and Education in the country.

 

Youths with Solutions to Societal Problems Can Create Job Opportunities

 

The numerous social challenges facing the society has created limitless career and self-employment opportunities for creative young men and women with fresh ideas for addressing these societal problems. In other words, many young people can begin to proffer solutions and take steps to implement programmes that address the various challenges facing the nation. 

Our youths can generate ideas and solutions that address the societies’ problems in form of new ventures that can create jobs and employment opportunities for themselves and others. My interactions with many youths show that there are thousands of youths out there with powerful and potential ideas for solving the nation's social problems and creating employment opportunities, but are stuck because they don't know how to proceed.

It is for this purpose that CDI Nigeria is conducting training and mentorship in social entrepreneurship and civic innovation for youths to develop the necessary critical skills and competencies to positively engage the society and become involved in providing solutions to very many challenges facing the nation, while creating new jobs and self-employment opportunities that address the persistent youth unemployment.

The Training will come in two folds:

Empowering prospective social entrepreneurs who will be creating businesses and opportunities for self-employment.

Bridging the workforce knowledge gap by preparing others with knowledge and skills for suitable employment in social organizations. 

Training Overview

·       Uncovering PASSION and Choosing a CAUSE

·       Turning Passion or Ideas into Pay Check.

·       Social Challenges: Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

·       Entrepreneurship Mind-Set and Processes.

·       Social Entrepreneurship Business Planning.

·       Sources of Funding for Social Enterprise

·       Approaches to Solving Societal Problems

Who can attend?

The training is open to anyone. It will be especially relevant to youths, undergraduates of higher institutions, serving and ex corps members, those working in public and private sectors, and other interested individuals

.Course Duration: One weeks.

Time; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm daily

Venue: Abuja Office, CDI Nigeria, Office Complex, Suite B, Block 1, Beside GTBank, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Road, Gwagwalada, FCT – Abuja.

Course fee:  N120, 000 this includes the registration fee, cost of the training, course materials, workshop bag, light refreshment and meals.

Payments:  You can make your payment to;

Account Name: Community Development Institute in Nigeria

Bank: GT BANK, 

Account Number: 0173357636

You can contact us on the following numbers

08165807273, 08055088038, 08126643483.

info@cdinigeria.org

Or visit www.cdinigeria.org