Capacity Building for Enterprise (CBE) is a Scottish funded developmental project through an agreement with Malawi Government: Scotland Malawi Business Group (SMBG). Challenges Worldwide (CWW) based in UK is responsible for overall management of the project. Though a CBE is a developmental project, it does commercial work to grow the consultancy culture amongst local business people. So that in future they will be ready to pay for different consulting services.
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CBE focuses on building indigenous consultancy capacity and expertise in Malawi in a sustainable way, while at the same time delivering timely, practical advice and guidance to the MSME sector. CBE uses UK Management Consultants, who work as volunteers, working as its primary resource. Their roles are to lead and direct consulting engagements and train and guide local associate consultants and apprentice consultants specifically recruited for CBE.
UK Management Consultants are Training, Design, Development, Delivery, Strategy and Generalist experts, with wide experience of different types of engagement, including Effective Communications and Business Analysis. Apprentices acquire professional expertise and qualifications through a combination of a structured two-year training course and on the job training and mentoring from their UK and senior Malawian colleagues.
Although UK Management Consultants are recruited as pro bono volunteers, their professional services, and those of the apprentices and associates working alongside them, as a general rule, is charged for in the normal way, in some cases at concessional rates. The revenue generated is used to cover some running costs and to finance the creation of a Development Fund. It is not the aim of CBE to undercut other local consultancies competing for full-price engagements. Rather it is to provide consulting services to businesses that have a real need, but either have no confidence in local providers and/or are unable to afford the full current market cost of such support.
Capacity Building for Enterprise (CBE) is a Scottish funded developmental project through an agreement with Malawi Government: Scotland Malawi Business Group (SMBG). Challenges Worldwide (CWW) based in UK is responsible for overall management of the project. Though a CBE is a developmental project, it does commercial work to grow the consultancy culture amongst local business people. So that in future they will be ready to pay for different consulting services.
