CONTENT AND USER GUIDE

This is a manual written to organisations or institutions working with entrepreneurship. It is a traning manual for facilitators. It has been developed and tested in Ghana, but the methodology is not geographically exlusive to Ghana, but it is applicable anywhere although the specific constraints faced by youth in developing countries and Ghana have been incorporated.

The model consists of 11 modules: Modules 1-8 are designed to be carried out in a bootcamp training, whereas modules 9-11 are designed to take place in follow up trainings.

Starting The Training

In the following chapters, each of the eleven modules, which the entrepreneurship model consists of, will be further explained.

The training is planned as a 5-6 day boot camp training with 25 - 30 participants. The boot camp training is a concept that we have developed for the training. It is an intensive training period where the participants are accomodated together to create synergy, co-creation and establish partnerships. Taking them away from home also allow them to focus on the training processes. During the boot camp the participants will be taken through the 8 first modules in the model.

After going through the initial 8 entrepreneurship modules the participants will have their own practical step by step plan and the beginning of a business model canvas. We call this their ”Next Best Steps”.

During the following months the participants should be supervised and coached on their next best steps, and receive additional training in finalising their business model canvas, which is described in module 9 and in financial management and branding (modules 10 and 11).