Training Course on Entrepreneurship Development for Rural Women, 21-27 May 2012, Indonesia is collaboration between the Colombo Plan and the Asian Productivity Organisation. The objective of this training course is to build capacities of women entrepreneurs, consultants, trainers and extension officers who provide business advisory services to women. The promotion of entrepreneurship amongst rural women [...]
The Colombo Plan and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) organised the Training Programme on Trade Promotion on 10-26 May 2012 in Seoul, Korea. The aim of this training programme is to share Korea’s experiences in economic development driven by export oriented trade policies. There were 14 participants from 10 developing member countries of the [...]
The Training Programme on International Trade and WTO, 15-31 March 2012, jointly organised by the Colombo Plan and the Korea International Cooperation Agency is to provide and understanding of Korea’s policies, systems and best practices in trade with other countries. The training programme was implemented by the Korea International Trade Association. There were 14 participants [...]
Training potential entrepreneurs is a crucial intervention in the process of promoting entrepreneurship development amount women. While the need for training is ever increasing, the paucity for effective women motivators in entrepreneurship development is widely evident in many of the developing countries. Achieving the goal of empowering women demands an expanding role of motivators, identification, [...]
The government of Pakistan, through the Pakistan Technical Cooperation Programme invited the Colombo Plan to share commercial banking experiences at the 42nd International Commercial Banking Course, 20 February – 16 March 2012 in Islamabad. This course is implemented by the National Institute of Banking and Finance (NIBAF) and aims to provide the participants with an [...]
The Colombo Plan in collaboration with the Asian Productivity Organisation organised the Workshop on Promotion and Marketing of Items Produced in Rural Communities under the One-Village One-Product Movement (OVOP), 16 – 20 January 2012 in Chiang Rai, Thailand. There were 13 participants from 8 Colombo Plan member countries namely, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, [...]
Recognising the need for skilled personnel in international trade, the Colombo Plan in collaboration with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) organised the training programme on International Trade and World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Seoul, Korea from 22 September – 8 October 2011. The programme was implemented by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), the [...]
The Colombo Plan and NAM Centre for South-South Technical Cooperation (NAM CSSTC), using the rural community development experience of Indonesia, shared its knowledge and experience in capacity building in microfinance among developing member countries. The training programme promoted rural community-based microfinance development as a means to support micro, small and medium enterprises modeled on the [...]
In many developing countries in Asia, existing institutional programmes to support women in developing their managerial skills and enhancing their technical knowledge in managing small, home-based microenterprises are limited in scope and outreach. International development experts have recognised that women have achieved higher rates of success as entrepreneurs when adequately trained. Such interventions have also [...]
The training programme on Industrial Development Policy was jointly organised by the Colombo Plan Secretariat and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on 7-22 July 2011, Seoul, Korea. The objectives of this programme were to enhance the overall knowledge of SME policies in Korea, to enhance the overall knowledge of Korean economic development and the [...]
