Our Programs
1. Small Business and Entrepreneurship Support
MSEs owners and potential entrepreneurs (grass-root entrepreneurs) are provided with a wide-spectrum of financing services,and non-financial services or business development services (BDS). The BDS include business skills training programs, one-on-one mentoring sessions, networking and funding opportunities through events and competitions. In addition, specialized training programs focusing on different business and management functions, and specialized one-on-one consultation sessions focusing on financial statements, due diligence, legal counseling, team management, product design, value-proposition and market offering, pitching to investors, and access to events and exhibitions are provided based on the needs of the program’s participants.
The financing services include micro-loans ranging from EGP 5,000 to EGP 100,000), in addition to seed funds or grants in some cases for start-ups or early-stage businesses. The financing instruments and products are transaction-based and tailored to match different business stages (start-ups to ready for growth) and sectors (agriculture, production, service, and trade).
2. Labor Market Access
Job seekers are fresh-graduates are provided with career development programs that is both serving the labor market in terms of improving the cadre of young people with the required set of values, competencies, and skills meeting the employers’ expectations, while raising young people awareness about the labor market needs and increasing the desired capacity to fit it, which improve employability.
The services include basic competencies, vocational, and functional training programs, in addition to career coaching sessions. In addition to the mechanism of networking a and linking the needs of employers with the competencies of young people through employment forums and events, job matching, and recruitment services.
3. Skills and Capacity Development
AYB-SD partner with different stakeholders to provide access for young people and women to the required skills and competencies that develop their capacities and enhance their employability potential. . The target group is provided by different training modalities that include interpersonal, vocational, technical, functional, and business skills programs that are delivered in a class-room and workshop settings, in addition to practical programs through on-the-job, internship, and apprenticeship opportunities.
In order to address behavioral aspects, training programs are coupled with different modalities of coaching, mentoring, and consultation sessions provided in a one-to-one or group settings which is focusing on the applied elements of practicing knowledge, skills, techniques and tools, and continuous learning about market opportunities, utilization of resources, and planning for the future.
4. Aid & Relief
The program is designed for our target groups who struggle to improve their lives, while facing vulnerability due to seasonality, negative market patterns, unusual trends, or family crisis. by providing small financial grants focusing on basic needs and access to social services such as education and health, the target group are empowered by minimizing transitional financial burden, to focus on improving their economic wellbeing and livelihoods.
The small grants are one mechanism, , however access to in-kind donations, collective income-generating programs, and group savings are also among the instruments used to complement the economic development services of the organization.