Project Description
The project supports the Africa SMS (SME Management Solutions) efforts to
build the regional infrastructure required to roll out Business Edge (BE)
in and across Africa. The two-phase project will provide a key knowledge
management function, with this first phase covering eight countries.
Specific activities include translating 53 BE trainer manuals and
workbooks into French and Portuguese, adapting trainer manuals to local
conditions, training and certifying 150 BE trainers and up to eight master
trainers, developing and supplying BE marketing tools, marketing BE,
hosting one BE practitioners event, developing new BE modules as needed,
and executing nine corporate value chain mandates. The objective is to
introduce and sustainably implement Business Edge in Africa.