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The Cooperative Business Schools (CBS) program provides a participatory learning approach to develop the capacity of cooperative leaders and members to effectively manage collective businesses. The program aims to make cooperatives more profitable through 19 meetings covering topics like basic business concepts, value addition, market analysis, and business planning. It follows six principles including teaching through facilitation, learning by doing, and being grounded in real-world cooperative management. The CBS package includes training materials, a basic curriculum, and guidance for setting up the program through a cascade model of training core facilitators who then train other providers to expand the program.
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- 1. COOPERATIVE BUSINESS SCHOOLS An overview 1
- 2. 2 • What: Participatory learning approach inspired by FFS and FBS, in the framework of Pluralistic Market-Oriented Services • Purpose (Why): to develop capacity of cooperative leaders/members to operate collective businesses and make their cooperative businesses more profitable • Who: Primary cooperatives running different types of collective businesses (production, processing, marketing, and services). CBS BACKGROUND
- 3. 3 Six principles of CBS 1. Teaching and Facilitation. 4. Grounded in the ‘real world’ 2. Learning-by-doing. 5. Building on existing capacity 3. Interactive and responsive. 6. Keeping things local. CBS PRINCIPLES
- 4. CBS PACKAGE 1. Handbook for Trainers 2. Exercise Handbook - 19 meetings & exercises 3. Toolbox – supplementary info + Guide for policy makers and programme managers Training of Facilitators Programme Assignments & Case studies 1. The cooperative as a business organisation 2. Cooperative Management & Entrepreneurship 3. Basic Business Concepts for Cooperatives 4. Understanding Value adding and Markets 5. Diagnosing the cooperative and business ideas 6. Appraising Business Ideas 7. Preparing the Business Plan 8-9. Developing the BP: Operational Plan 10. Developing BP: Profitability and Financial Plan 11. Developing the BP: Financial Plan 12. Developing a BP Risk Management Plan 13. Finalizing the Business Plan; 14. Field Trip 15. Field Trip Reporting, Implementation & Monitoring 16. Evaluation 17. Evaluating the Whole Cooperative; Recordkeeping 18. Computerization Prepare for Business Plan Project 19. Business Plan report back Basic curriculum
- 5. HOW TO START CBS • Identify a group of champions – kick- start • Orientation and introduction of the approach – buy-in • Train a core team of trainers – critical mass • Adapt, develop and deliver CBS • Certify trainers to train other cadre of service providers • Expand and scale out • buy-in • kick-start • Critical mass
- 6. 6 TRAINING OF TRAINERS 1. brief (half-day) orientation; 2. four-day online pre-training session; 3. six-day training program; 4. Rollout CBS Cycle 5. Certification
- 7. Next steps • National/regional graduation • Evaluation of the entire CBS programme • Training a cadre of CBS trainers and facilitators for scaling • Deploying/sustaining institutional capacity CBS Cycles Setting goals for the CBS programme Engage with cooperatives to identify participants Aligning CBS curriculum to local conditions First contact with selected participants Prepare and run the CBS training programme Evaluate the CBS training programme
- 8. MAIN ACTORS 8 • Facilitators: to accompany the participants, during, between and after the CBS class meetings • Cooperative Business Advisors: a sort of ‘business doctor’ -Part of the Business Advisory Support Service for the whole CBS programme + Other role-players: o Service coordinators o Materials developers o Subject matter business specialists • CBS participants: Cooperative management
- 9. Key criteria • Champions and cascade approach • Trainers/Facilitators • Cooperatives • Support institution 9 KEY CRITERIA
- 10. 10 Who can establish CBS CBS can be started by different agencies: • public sector extension services • NGOs • Commodity groups with advisory services • Farmers associations and cooperatives • Colleges and universities.
- 11. • Time frame: at least 19 sessions • Area-based selection of cooperatives • Location: close vicinity to cooperatives • Access to computers for some modules • Inst. Capacity – Coaching (of facilitators), oversight, ME&L • Consistency – Support, learning and scaling 11 WHERE AND HOW
- 12. COOPERATIVE BUSINESS SCHOOLS An overview 12