Training for Self-employment Through Vocational Training Institutions

Book excerpt: This book was written to help formal and informal sector trainers provide the prospective self-employed with both useful skills and business acumen, and to help vocational training managers and administrators address the challenges of reorienting their institutions to self-employment. Self-employment is fundamentally about business, however modest the micro-enterprises of the self-employed might appear to be. The book has four principal parts. Part l opens with a brief overview of enterprise development issues, and provides a framework to help projects, training institutions and education systems consider or plan self-employment programmes. Part ll is an overview of self-employment issues and options. Part lll offers a collection of case studies from Africa, India, and Latin America. The final section, Part lV, offers a synthesis of experiences to date and a systematic oway forwardo.