Business Development Training Support to selected partners of the Jordan Valley Links project
Al Jidara worked with project’s partners (grantees) to complement and enhance their business support to their beneficiaries and ensure they are aligned with the international best practices. The objective of this assignment was to build the capacities of the JVL partners and their beneficiaries in achieving entrepreneurial goals, enhancing the capabilities of local communities in starting their own businesses, and building necessary skills to enable them to scale.
Al Jidara implemented tailored interventions for the partners and focused efforts on providing support to the GreenTech beneficiaries with GreenTech project teams shadowing the process in order to ensure sustainability of intervention beyond the project. Al Jidara commenced the intervention with GreenTech beneficiaries with an Advanced Sales and Marketing Training that was aimed at building the capacity of the Clean Technology consortium beneficiaries in the areas of sales and marketing, now that they have received technical trainings in the areas of clean energy and how to start a business in that field.
Al Jidara offered two rounds of one-on-one coaching sessions to each of the grantees and implemented a blended approach of support activities to both NAFE staff and their beneficiaries. First, Al Jidara, delivered a Basic Hub Management training to those selected hub key staff members, followed by the development of an annual plan for each hub. As COVID-19 hit, Al Jidara complemented the initial hub management training with an Advanced Hub Management training that focused on building the capacity of the hub in managing their business during a crisis, to ensure sustainability in the midst of very uncertain times. Al Jidara built and delivered tailored trainings and coaching and mentoring sessions to a total of 25 grantees that enabled them to launch their businesses during the pandemic, out of which 24 pursued their businesses and expanded them beyond the timeframe of their grants. Project mentors identified noticeable improvements in beneficiary performance and competence development; learning; self-confidence and self-efficacy.