Personal Initiative Training

The World Bank Group’s Armenia Economic Growth and Economic Empowerment of Women Project aims to help promote investment, business growth, and job creation. The Project is being delivered by IFC in partnership with the United Kingdom Government’s Good Governance Fund. The Project helps improve the economic outcomes of women entrepreneurs in Armenia by improving their business competencies and access to business networks. Leveraging evidence from rigorous impact evaluations from Africa and Latin America, the Project plans to improve the local providers capacity to deliver a series of personal initiative trainings to women-led SMEs and startups. Personal Initiative Training (PIT) is a psychology-based mindset training program that develops key behaviors associated with a proactive entrepreneurial mindset that can deliver lasting improvements for small business owners.

On December 4-18, the Project will conduct a substantial train-the-trainer (TOT) element for up to 15 trainers.

The preliminary schedule is the following:

* Pre-meeting TTT - 4th December 2020 at 3pm-6pm
* Training TTT (3 full days) - 7th, 8th and 10th December 2020 at 9.30am-5.30pm
* Training TTT (2 half days) - 9th December at 10am-2pm; 11th December 2020 at 3pm- 7pm
* Pilot training (3 full days) - 14th, 15th and 17th December 2020 at 9.30am-5.30pm
* Pilot training (2 half days) - 16th December at 9am-1pm and 18th December 2020 at 3pm- 8pm

The TOT will be delivered online via ZOOM. The Project plans to include representatives of key partner organizations in the pool of trainers with the intention to roll out the trainings in other relevant programs. We would like to kindly invite you to nominate potential candidates for the TOT. Individual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. The candidates should have teaching experience, willing to participate in two-week training and teach the PIT after successful completion of the course. Only the selected participants will be notified and invited for the participation. Please note that full attendance and intensive participation in all trainings are required are among criteria for the certification. Any absence will be a ground for the candidate’s withdrawal from the course.