Women for Women Rwanda is implementing a project entitled “Enabling environments for successful female entrepreneurship in Rwanda” across 7 districts namely: Gasabo, Kicukiro, Bugesera, Rwamagana, Kayonza, Muhanga, and Nyaruguru whereby the end of the project, 1,440 women micro-entrepreneurs increased skills and connections to run successful micro-business.
Women for Women Rwanda is implementing a project entitled “Enabling environments for successful female entrepreneurship in Rwanda” across 7 districts namely: Gasabo, Kicukiro, Bugesera, Rwamagana, Kayonza, Muhanga, and Nyaruguru whereby the end of the project, 1,440 women micro-entrepreneurs increased skills and connections to run successful micro-business. Among the components that are being delivered, Business leadership is offered to several 200 selected Micro- women entrepreneurs as practical training to boost their business leadership skills, as well as their confidence as businesswomen.
21st and 22nd September 2022 was a turn for 26 participants from the Muhanga district whereby the training took place and aimed at:
- Providing information and understanding of the key concepts of leadership, its different styles, theories, and skills that enable them to become successful and more effective leaders in their Cooperatives and businesses.
- Supporting and facilitating the development of knowledge, skills, and attributes on leadership, enabling women to address various challenges that they may encounter as business leaders
- Equipping them with different negotiation and influencing skills as a business leader.
- Build women micro-entrepreneurs’ business and communication skills and connections to become confident businesswomen, capable of negotiating with and influencing potential partners, including investors, public and private financial and market actors, as well as other decision-makers.
While conducting this training, WfW-Rwanda uses practical tools and methodologies easily applicable to their business realities as these women are already running their Individual/Cooperative micro-businesses.
After delivering this training, WfW-Rwanda expect that all skills and knowledge that have been given to the cooperative leaders are going to assist them in attracting new cooperative partners and potential products buyers, reducing the members dropping out due to conflicts and problems that are happening in their cooperatives and increasing the performance of their cooperatives in terms of production.
"This training has equipped me with all possible skills and knowledge on how to behave while implementing my responsibility as an audit committee member in Cooperative Urumuri Kabacuzi, it has also guided me on how to behave with other fellow leaders as well as all cooperative members. I also got basic tips and tricks on being a good leader that I am going to share with other women out my cooperative that is going to help them in strengthening their family relations “Said Mukantare Brigitte
After this training, these women have clarified that it is going to support them on how to attract new buyers and even come up with a signed agreement (MoU) to avoid any conflict that can rise from their partnership and clarifies what to do by every side, they are also expecting that all skills and knowledge that they got are going to build a friendship, trust and confidence among all cooperative members for the better success of the businesses that they are doing.