8/31/08

Microloans for IDP Women in Shida Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti Regions

Funds raised through the Megobari Project will finance microloans for IDP women in Shida Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti. Loan payments will be used to issue addition projects in the future.

Through a 20-hour business training in Khashuri, this project will provide low income IDPs, specifically women, in the Shida Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions with the capacity to increase family income and standard of living through improved business activity by building human and financial capital.

Training topics include:

  1. Money, cost, budgeting and household saving
  2. Basic market-based economics and basic accounting
  3. Defining the mission and business goals of your business
  4. Basic marketing
  5. Pricing and distribution
  6. SWOT Analysis and Risk Management
  7. Production plan of operation and production process
  8. Management
  9. Sales and Promotion
  10. Business Planning Financials

Throughout the course, participants will write a business plan for their own business. Week 11 of the project, participants will make business plan presentations to a panel of actual micro finance lenders working in Georgia. This panel will choose the best plans to receive financing.

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