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Name:

Mrs. Lenisa Vucago Tuvuki

Post:

Project Monitoring Officer

Department:

Northern Development Programme

Address:

Ground Floor
Macuata House
Labasa
Fiji Island

International Programme on
SMALL BUSINESSAND PROMOTION (SBPP)
(17th November 5th December 2014)
Small Business today has assumed extreme significance in the development,
planning of any countrys economy. Besides adding to GDP, small business
has great potential to fight successfully the universal and acute problem of
unemployment and do assist in maximizing use of local resources. In many
developing countries, small business development has been taken very
seriously. Small Business Planning and Promotion amongst potential
entrepreneurs has now been developed professionally. This requires skills for
sensing appropriate business opportunities, identifying projects based on
market survey, perceiving and mobilizing resources, preparation of project
report, technology evaluation and finally meeting formalities needed in
setting up of small business enterprise. These small business opportunities
require appraisal by the entrepreneur from his perspective as well as that of
the banker and support agencies to ensure supply of funds and other inputs.
Such planning skills are often found lack among small business entrepreneurs.
To develop such skills, NIESBUD has designed a three -week International
Programme on Small Business Planning and Promotion for Colombo Plan
Secretariat [SBPP CPS] from the 17th November - 5th December 2014.

OBJECTIVES
The programme has been designed to enable participants to:
Learn the use and application of various tools, techniques approach,
mobilizing resources for starting & running a small business
Understand the use practice and use of various methods of sensing
small business opportunities
Enable preparing project/business plan suitable to business location
Acquire ability to motivate potential entrepreneurs, planning &
promoting small business
Develop a plan of action suitable to the respective countries.

SPECIAL FEATURE
The course emphasis is on the developing skills and ability among the
participants to plan and promote small business as entrepreneurs as also the
trainers/counselors/ consultant/ managers of small business. It focuses on

exercise/practices sessions, action planning and practical applicable of

knowledge gained.

COURSE CONTENT

Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Small Business Creation
Small Business Planning and Appraising
Entrepreneurial Qualities for Small business Entrepreneurs
Small Business Marketing
Small Business Promoters Role and Functions
Field Studies

Course Methodology
The methodology comprise case studies, exercise, practice session,
individual/group assignments, and discussion, implant study and interaction
with entrepreneurs and officials of the support agencies. A few training was
shown to supplement the class work deliberation.

3.

Learning Points
A.

Class Room

Class room lectures really enhanced my knowledge about

entrepreneurship development and Small Business entities
The lectures inspired me to start my own enterprise and teach SMEs on
Entrepreneurship i.e. how to start a business, sustain the business and
marketing of products.
I have adequate knowledge on how to prepare a project report, carry
out market survey.
I now know the Project Appraisal Techniques and how to carry out
Project Monitoring and Implementation.
I now know the vital Entrepreneurial Qualities for Small Business
Entrepreneurs.
The programme was structured as such that it would facilitate interaction
amongst participants so that they could learn from each others
experiences. The first part of the programme was classroom learning
where the lecturer taught about the subject content followed by
structured exercises and skills practices. They used case studies, profile
rating, structured exercises, videos, business games, discussions, individual

and group work which helped by enhancing my understanding on Small

business planning and promotion.

B.

Study Visit

I truly appreciate all the study visits we undertook to different places as each
place imparted me with vital knowledge pertaining to development.
Visit to Agra
It was a dream turning into reality when I was face to face to one of the
Seven Wonders of the World Taj Mahal and its still number one. We saw the
beautiful architectural buildings which were constructed long ago but are
superior in design and outlook.
Visit to Jaipur
Jaipur is a beautiful city. We visited the paper making products namely
Saleem Paper and were interesting in how waste products of paper can of a
high value as the end product. The history of this successful business man has
indeed of a great challenge for one to be successful in life.
Visit to historical places/museums/temple:
All the historical places visited were:

4.

highly educative and informative

famous for its colorful culture
having a rich and eventual past
having an identity of its own
with an exquisite collection of sculptures, paintings
decorative wares

and

Use of Learning

Upon these three weeks training I had gain a lot on Small Business Promotion
and will imparting some of my knowledge to the clients on;
how to start small business
preparing project paper
doing market survey
Assessing market and product
And creating web account for business personal.

5.

Action Plan

S.NO

Activity

Objectives

Date of Place

Target Group

Who will do

Report
Presentation

Knowledge of
India Trip

Labasa
office
12/12/14

Management
as a whole

Lenisa

Small Business
Creation

To create business Labasa

ides
16/12/14

Youth group

Lenisa

Training
[Financial
Literacy
Training]

Savings well
beings with
income and
expenses

04/01/15

Womens
group

Lenisa

CEFE training

Business training

23rd -26th Jan

2015

Small business
entrepreneurs

Training
coordinator

6.

Support Needed

S.NO
1
2

Type of support
Financial
Administrative

How much
$ 400.00
$ 500.00

From where
NCSMED
NCSMED

7.

Acknowledgement

I would like to take this time to thank the following people who had made this
three weeks training a successful one.
My sincere thanks go to the heads of our department who had appointed
me to attend this Small Business Promotion Training. It was indeed a great
privilege for me since this was my first international trip and the experience
gain is really incredible.
My heartfelt thanks goes to the Director General, Mr. Arun KumarJha, the
management and entire staffs of NIESBUD for running the training courses. A
very deep appreciation goes to Course Directors Dr. Rishi Raj Singh, Mr. Sunil
Taneja (Overall Coordination) and the accounts department for organizing
this programme successfully and with full dedication. Not to forget the
wonderful job done by all the Hostel and Catering staff, IT Section and Mr.
Murli for always helping us in our little worries(Murli bank)and Murli top up
please.
The Colombo Plan secretariat who finances the travelling from my country to
India and the Government of India with all the hospitality and the study tour
in which were all educational and one will not ever leave a memory of it.
Once again a big VINAKA VAKA LEVU and DANWEBHAT
FIR ME LAQEH.