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Training and Capacity Building Program

EDI’s training packages are our unique value proposition in the industry to build a competitive, innovative and sustainable startups, MSMEs and public and private organizations with agility and resilience to adapt to ever changing business world.

Our training solution provision is rooted in the UNCTAD EMPRETEC model of entrepreneurship development. EDI provides hands on learning solutions for entrepreneurs at different stages and sectors with skills and competencies required from finding their inner entrepreneur, designing value driven venture, launching and expanding their venture. We have also catalogue of training packages ranging from accredited trainers’ capacity building and certifications (TOTs), integrated training programs for public and corporate organization.

Our training solutions are anchored on the needs of the learners aligned to business outcomes. EDI’s training programs are offered in English, Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, and Tigrigna.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOP (ETW)

This training package aims at developing entrepreneurship as a set of specific competencies and practices that can be observed, recognized, applied and acquired by entrepreneurs on their daily lives. The course vividly shows entrepreneurs the difference between merely running a business and building a growth-oriented enterprise.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Existing SMEs that have a track record of good business performance.
  • Potential entrepreneurs with promising business ideas.
  • Start-up companies with good bankable project proposals.
THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Own the entrepreneurial mindset that you need to transform your regular business into a scalable and sustainable version.
  • Master market research and refine business ideas to meet real-world demands.
  • Embrace creation and innovation as a new way of doing business.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you build a growth-oriented enterprise.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 6 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

DESIGN YOUR VENTURE (DYV)

This training package deals about the process of new venture development.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Aspiring entrepreneurs keen to acquire the knowledge and skills to transform their ideas into successful business ventures.
THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Develop personal responsibility and initiate for personal and business success.
  • Assess your entrepreneurial readiness and develop action plan to improve your entrepreneurial competencies.
  • Identify the entrepreneurial skills and competencies required to take your business idea from thought to fruition.
  • Identify value driven business opportunities and build user-centric business idea.
  • Build solution that best fit the customer needs, business needs, and technically feasible.
  • Build the Minimum Viable Product (MVPs) and validate through market testing.
  • Plan and develop your business models.
  • Develop your business detail plan.
  • Practice developing start-up business plan using digital tools.
  • Practice pitching your business ideas and develop public speech skills as an entrepreneur.
  • Practice delivering your formal pitch in front of funders using pitch canvas.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you launch and run your own venture.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 20-25

DURATION: 6 - 25 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXECUTIVE MASTER CLASS

This program aims at helping the executives to think like entrepreneurs and continuously introduce innovative improvements in their organizations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Managers/Executives who are responsible for setting the vision and direction of an organization, department, team.

THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Build the foundation for your innovation and corporate entrepreneurship culture and programs.
  • Plan corporate entrepreneurship and innovation strategy for their organization.
  • Develop and guide a corporate startup team for entrepreneurship and innovation.
  • Set up structure and process necessary to support innovation in their organization.
  • Develop ability assess the investment worthy innovation efforts by employees and funding decisions.
  • Assess innovation KPIs and impacts on the organizational metrics.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you implement scalable and sustainable corporate innovation and entrepreneurship strategies and programs.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 3-4 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

Public Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Building Workshop (PEIEB)

This workshop is designed to accelerate entrepreneurialism and innovation across the public sector.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Top and middle management, Experts and Front-line officers

THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Design and implement different value-creation projects aimed at improving service delivery and organizational outcomes.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

Assess your public entrepreneurial competencies and identify strengths and weaknesses.

Develop personal responsibility for initiating value-creating solutions for others in and outside of your organization.

Practice design-driven opportunity identification approach and creating value for others and fostering and cultivating organizational and sectoral level innovation practices.

Use methods for assessing and testing the sustainability and feasibility of the innovative solutions before implementing them.

Set personal and organizational goals for system innovation.

Develop tenacity and commitment to move forward despite challenges, risks, and ambiguities.

Develop leadership skills and mobilize resources for implementing innovative solutions.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 35

DURATION: 6 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURIAL EMPLOYEES

This program aims at helping employees to think like entrepreneurs and continuously introduce innovative improvements in their organizations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Corporate employees
  • Corporate startup accelerators
THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Act as an entrepreneur who is in constant search of a problem worth solving, for a customer who cares, and solving it in a feasible way that makes sense for both the organization and the customer.
  • Develop new ideas/solutions based on critical thinking and design thinking methods.
  • Manage the implementation of low fidelity experiments(prototypes) to collect significant user experience.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members, perhaps as a virtual team across departments.
  • Develop ability to pitch an innovative solution in front of corporate executives.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you implement scalable and sustainable corporate innovation and entrepreneurship strategies and programs.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 5-6 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING (YET)

This training package inspires and motivates youths to develop the attitude of entrepreneurship.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Youths who are anticipating to establish their own business.

THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Identify the need for career option in entrepreneurship.
  • Assess your entrepreneurial potential.
  • Identifying user-centered business opportunity.
  • Develop your business model.
  • Testing your business idea with market.
  • Set your startup launch milestones.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you to consider entrepreneurship as viable career option.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 2 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOP (WETW)

This training is designed to support and promote entrepreneurship among women understanding the extra burden that women face in owning and running their business.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Aspiring, start up or existing women entrepreneurs.

THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Identify business opportunities.
  • Design systematic planning and sustainable business model.
  • Develop effective team building and financial recording skills.
  • Recognize various sources of finance available for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
  • Improve quality for ensuring business sustainability.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you enhance your business skills and entrepreneurial competencies.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 4 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

FARMING AS A BUSINESS (FAAB) TRAINING WORKSHOP

This training is intended to enable the rural community to tap into the entrepreneurial opportunities within the rural areas and to help them develop a positive entrepreneurial disposition.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Farmers wishing to start a business.

THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Identify and develop entrepreneurial competencies and behaviors.
  • Spot business opportunities along the Agri-value chain.
  • Supply products with quality and efficiency.
  • Create a business plan.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you to transform your farming practice to a lucrative business.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 3 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SKILLS TRAINING (EBMS)

EMBS is designed to assist you in developing or enhancing your ability to spot opportunities and form new venture. This training emphasis on leveraging entrepreneurship and business management skills to optimize and sustain best results.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Aspiring entrepreneurs with a strong desire and determination to either start a business or improve and formalize their informal and petty business.

THIS TRAINING HELPS YOU TO
  • Identify and pursue viable business ideas through practical exercises in market research and opportunity analysis, enabling them to start their own business.
  • Develop core entrepreneurial skills to confidently navigate decision-making, risk management, and resource allocation for business success.
  • Recognize and evaluate business opportunities and use this insight to choose a promising business idea with clear growth potential.
  • Set meaningful business goals based on identified opportunities and create actionable plans to work toward these goals.
  • Apply business management practices effectively, demonstrating skills in operation planning and Business financing plan.
  • Prepare a comprehensive business plan that includes strategic elements such as market analysis, value propositions, and financial projections.
  • Understand the start-up process by following essential steps, from idea generation through to initial business launch.
LEARNING OUTCOMES/WHY ATTEND THE COURSE

To help you to start your own business in a more meaningful way.

PRE-REQUISITE: No

CLASS SIZE: 25-35

DURATION: 4 days

DELIVERY MODE: Face to Face

Additional Training Programs

Our diverse training initiatives cover critical aspects of entrepreneurship, leadership, and capacity building, ensuring every participant is well-equipped to thrive.

  • Job Search Skill Training – Equipping job seekers with essential employability skills.
  • Launch Your Startup Workshop – Providing early-stage entrepreneurs with the necessary skills to establish and scale their ventures.
  • Grow Your Enterprise (GYE) – Supporting high-growth SMEs with strategies to enhance competitiveness and sustainability.
  • Low Literacy Entrepreneurs Training (LLET) – Delivering fundamental entrepreneurial skills to individuals with limited literacy levels.
  • Employability Enhancement Training (EET) – Preparing graduates with essential workplace skills to enhance career opportunities.
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Management Skill Training (EBMST) – Offering a structured approach to business growth and sustainability.
  • Rural Entrepreneurship – Developing innovative solutions for rural-based entrepreneurs.
  • Emotional Intelligence in Business – Enhancing interpersonal and leadership skills for business success.
  • Life Skills for Business – Equipping entrepreneurs with soft skills crucial for business management.
  • Trauma Healing and Psychological Recovery for Entrepreneurs – An integrated approach to supporting entrepreneurs in overcoming business-related setbacks.
  • Customer Service Experience – Training entrepreneurs and businesses to deliver exceptional customer service.
  • Business Rehabilitation and Growth Training (BRGT) – Revitalizing struggling businesses and fostering sustainable growth.
  • Public Sector Innovation Lab Training – Fostering innovation within government institutions to enhance service delivery and efficiency.
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship Training – Empowering corporate leaders with innovative approaches to business growth and transformation.

Training of Trainers (ToT) – Building a Nationwide Network

Our Training of Trainers (ToT) program cultivates a highly skilled network of facilitators who deliver entrepreneurial training with excellence. By certifying expert trainers, we ensure high-quality knowledge transfer and broad-scale impact across Ethiopia.

Additional Value-Added Services

Beyond conventional training, we provide complementary services to maximize participant success:

  • Bespoke Training Solutions – Custom-designed programs tailored to specific industry needs and organizational objectives.
  • Mentorship & Networking – Exclusive access to a robust network of business leaders, investors, and industry experts.
  • Cutting-Edge Learning Resources – Comprehensive toolkits, case studies, and digital learning materials.
  • Global Certification & Recognition – Internationally recognized certifications to enhance credibility and marketability.
  • Post-Training Support & Acceleration – Continued coaching, business incubation, and funding linkages to ensure long-term success.

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