• Capacity Development Provider

AIF Business Development

Give yourself a job programme

AIF's mobile unit, Give Yourself a Job (GYAJ), encourages and supports unemployed and underemployed people in townships and rural areas. Although aimed at all ages, GYAJ has a high focus on youth development. Participants identify and access viable, sustainable, low-barrier opportunities to give themselves a job by working together. When participants begin their GYAJ journey, they are unaware of the possibilities of empowerment available to them. By the end of the programme, they diversify their activities to actively seek new opportunities.Business insights, orientations and value-creating skills can only be developed through experience, and this is the basis of the GYAJ journey.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic

  • Services

    • Host events for entrepreneurs or entrepreneur support intermediaries

  • Nonfinancial Services

    • Capacity development services
    • Market linkages
    • Investment linkages

  • Capacity development services

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Performance or impact measurement and management support
    • Value/supply chain development
    • Support on governance structure
    • Talent development/HR (including leadership)
    • Operations and technology development or adoption
    • Legal/accounting/other office services

  • Market linkages services

    • Access to new markets/customers
    • Access to infrastructure
    • Access to materials

  • Investment linkages services

    • Pitch readiness
    • Access to investors

  • Focus Tech

    • No

  • Focus Population

    • Rural entrepreneurs
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Minority or previously excluded population
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