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CEFE PANORAMA
//2015REVIEW OF THE YEAR
EXPERIENCES OF THE GLOBAL NETWORK
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EDITING
Anji Resurreccion
CEFE Network Peru
Eberhard Peter Bärenz
Ed Canela
Elena Stojanovska
Fabio Emilio Buiza
Gloria Núñez Altamirano
ICCAPE - Instituto Centro de Capacitação e Apoio ao Pequeno Empreendedor
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Jorge Tagle
Laura Dorn
Lothar Maria Willms
Marlinde Elisabeth Bärenz
Paulina Pacheco
REEM Moubadarat
Sugeng Priyanto
Ton van der Krabben
This year’s review collects CEFE stories from all over the world. Find out
about new CEFE products, our network activities as well as successful
projects realized in 2015.
We would like to thank those contributing to this annual review.
Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to all our CEFE
experts, partners and friends around the globe for their constant sup-
port, their fresh ideas and fruitful cooperation.
Eberhard Bärenz
Marlinde Bärenz
Laura Dorn
Max Behlen
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BAERENZ BAERENZEBERHARD MARLINDE
After working several years for CEFE International, I have realized one thing: it’s all about working with CEFE people. So, after struggling a lot in the irst years since the outsourcing from GIZ in 2008, I can truly say that I became part of the CEFE family. The CEFE networks are not simply a portfolio of entrepreneurship trainers, every individual in our commu-nity has their own story to tell and own expertise and ideas to share.
I have two sources providing me with all the motivation and energy for my day-to-day work. One is the pleasure to hear CEFE participants say “CEFE has changed my life”. These are the moments when I know why I am promoting CEFE. The other one are the very irst 15 minutes of a CEFE conference, when I am observing CEFE people from diferent parts of the world being so happy to meet their CEFE colleagues. It’s an amaz-ing feeling driving me forward every day to achieve my goal - ‘Celebrat-ing CEFE’s 60th birthday in 2043!’
Are we following trends and market demand with CEFE or do we rest on a business creation training, which was revolutionary and trendsetting a long time ago? Hundreds of creative CEFistas form new CEFE applications every year, providing remarkable training solutions for concrete challenges. We exert ourselves to collect these experiences from you, i.e. the CEFEnet, process them into new products and ofer them for replication and service provision.
It is amazing to deal with these innovative tools but also getting tedi-ous when we imagine how much remains undiscovered and not shared. It is an ideal goal for me to achieve much more exchange in 2016. Would you like to join?
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CEFE CONTACTS WORLDWIDE
Authorized Partners are institutions or corporations with which
CEFE International entered into formalized partnerships in order
to cooperate in various projects globally.
CEFE International’s active contacts are CEFE experts with
whom CEFE International is in exchange about all topics relating
to the realization and development of CEFE.
CEFE INTERNATIONAL SERVICES ...................................................................8
PROJECT PORTFOLIO ................................................................................ 10
CEFE MULTIPLICATION ............................................................................. 12
GLOBUS FOR BUSINESS LINKAGES ...................................................... 14
CANVAS IN CEFE TRAININGS .................................................................. 16
BREAKING NEWS ......................................................................................... 18
CEFE AROUND THE WORLD ........................................................................... 20
CEFE IMPRESSIONS .................................................................................... 22
FIRST GLOBAL CEFE COOPERATION .................................................... 24
CEFE INDONESIA’S RURACCELERATION ............................................ 26
PROCESS INNOVATION IN BDS DEVELOPMENT ............................. 28
A STEP IN THE STAIRCASE TO CEFE 2020 ............................................ 30
GREENOVATION ........................................................................................... 32
CENTRO CAPE - THE EVOLUTION OVER THE YEARS ...................... 34
A SUCCESS STORY FROM IRAQ .............................................................. 35
NETWORK CEFE PERU - AMBITIONS AND CHALLENGES ............ 36
KEEPING THE CEFE LAMP BURNING IN MANILA ............................ 38
CEFISTAS UNITED ................................................................................................ 40
THOUGHTS ACCELERATOR À LA FRANCOPHONE ......................... 42
THE LATAM STORM ..................................................................................... 44
CONTENTS
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CEFE INTERNATIONAL
SERVICES
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PROJECT PORTFOLIO
CEFE MULTIPLICATION
GLOBUS FOR BUSINESS LINKAGES
CANVAS IN CEFE TRAININGS
BREAKING NEWS
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PROJECT PORTFOLIO// 2015
GERMANY The Summer School on Green Economy joined 30 participants from 16 countries in Bonn to exchange experiences and gain insights in 13 diferent sessions plus 3 ield excursions. Our main tasks were to support GIZ agenda planning, speaker coordination, moderation, and enhancement of the learning pro-cess by participative methods and interaction between participants. // JULY 2015
BRAZIL As a follow-up to the Latin America conference held in 2014 in Chile and regional follow-up meetings in Nicaragua, Peru and Brazil, CEFE International organ-ized a conference with its partner CentroCape in Brazil. Participants were coming from diferent Latin-American countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Peru, and Brazil) to inalize the new CEFE approach for quality standards, certiication and evaluation. It will be tested now in Latin America and then be developed into a global system of standards.
// MARCH 2015ALGERIA CEFE was introduced to Algeria in early 2000 when the country sufered from unrest. Somehow the momentum got lost until the GIZ-IDEE programme on innova-tion, sustainable economy and employment decided to activate trainers and introduce the CEFE Green Business module as a busi-ness development service. In co-operation with CEFE friends from Tunisia we gave an appreciation
SIERRA LEONE A CEFE ToT was carried out by CEFE International for 16 par-ticipants from diferent organiza-tions (such as Welthungerhilfe, Sierra Leone Indigenous Business Association, GIZ and others) in Sierra Leone. Subsequent to the ToT, four coachings helped the
UGANDA CEFE International executed a 12-day CEFE Training of Train-ers for 15 staf members of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The training was carried out in Kampala, Uganda, but partici-pants came also from IRC Ethiopia and Burundi. Focus was on CEFE for rural development and village communities.
// JULY / AUG 2015
INDIA ‘Indinnovation’ is our title for supporting the GIZ Programme on Modernization and Innovation of the “Mittelstand” in India by building human capacity within four prime institutes. They shall be enabled to roll out sustain-able innovation and technology training to SMEs and intermedi-ary organizations. In coopera-tion with Steinbeis Germany and India we will try to squeeze a very comprehensive content into four short modules, using experiential learning.
// NOV 2015 – JAN 2017
MEXICO Together with Gopa Consult, CEFE International has been contracted to promote urban-industrial environmental management in Mexico City. In the consortium, they are supported by PremaNET and Held Consulting (as rep-resentative of “ToC – Theory of Constraints”)
// JULY 2015 - JUNE 2017
MOROCCO Together with our partner REEM Moubadarat we have held the fourth Francophone Africa Con-ference in Morocco. This time it was a mixed concept of discuss-ing various cooperation opportu-nities among CEFE members, get-ting to know new CEFE projects and exercises as well as visiting diferent sightseeing places. We welcomed participants from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Senegal and Mali. // JAN 2015
MOROCCO Together with AFC and GOPA, CEFE International is contracted for the execution of the GIZ project “Economic promotion and rural development in deprived areas of Morocco.” Target groups of the project are micro and small entrepreneurs as well as their employees in ive pilot provinces. Within the target group a special emphasis lies on the advancement of women, who are often disadvantaged with re-gard to their economic situation.
// OCT 2015IRAQ CEFE International has super-vised three Iraqi CEFE trainers, employed by IOM, to start the process of becoming Master ToT Trainers. Normita and Roberto Palo were lead facilitators, sup-ported by CEFE International. // JULY - SEP 2015
workshop for partner organiza-tions to raise their interest. Then we shared the joy of 10 CEFistas when they met again after a dec-ade and attended a seminar to get updated and to become CEFE Green Business Trainers. In De-cember we will start a complete ToT in this module, including the qualiication of two national Mas-ter Trainers.
// DEC 2014 // MAY / DEC 2015 // JAN 2016
THAILAND Since long, Germany via GIZ supports the ASEAN countries with the ‘Promoting Innovation & Technology’ (PIT) programme. CEFE International was con-tracted to prepare and carry out two training courses on innova-tion promotion and technology transfer for SMEs on behalf of AIZ/GIZ. In total, 39 participants from six countries, representing public sector, research institutes, uni-versities, business associations, chambers and private enterprises participated actively, shared ex-periences and exercises, and de-veloped back-home projects aim-ing at a provision of information on national promotion programs. We used our comprehensive CEFE tools on innovation training. // SEP 2015
trainees to apply the CEFE meth-odology and the learned course contents to a ive-days training with their target group. During the coaching, the trainees were supervised and guided by the CEFE facilitators, also coming from Ghana. // JUNE / JULY 2015
GERMANY In a joint proposal with trAIDe, CEFE International was able to get contracted for a three-months training and coaching on busi-ness opportunities between the Chinese province Jiangsu and the German province North Rhine-Westphalia.
// DEC 2015 - JUNE 2016CEFE International Services is conducting projects together with various CEFE advisors. This abstract lists several pro-jects to demonstrate in which areas we have been working in 2015.
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MULTIPLICATIONCEFE
Also in 2015, CEFE International addressed substantial work force to its core function: the multiplication of CEFE by Train-ing of Trainers (ToT) as well as the subsequent Coaching of ToT participants.
A classical ToT qualiies par-ticipants to prepare and conduct trainings with diverse target groups using the CEFE methodol-ogy. It introduces the participants into entrepreneurship training with one of the most successful methods for learning business de-velopment. The action-oriented approach guarantees the devel-opment of training capacities of major start-up topics such as: Personal entrepreneurial characteristics Business idea generation Market share and marketing strategy Organizational management Basic inance, including cash low and proit & loss calculation Financing plan and investment Business plan preparation
Additionally, ToT participants gain the skills in action-orientated learning, namely: CEFE: concepts, principles, history, CEFE network Experiential Learning Cycle Role, characteristics and function of a facilitator Concepts and techniques of participative training: technique of evaluation, energizers, etc. Instruments of facilitation and moderation Visualization techniques and communication Maintaining and controlling group dynamics Principles of giving and receiving feedback
After only three days, ToT partici-pants start acting as facilitators; they prepare exercises and con-duct them with the group.
Coaching sessions subsequent to the ToT are necessary to complete the qualiication and to receive the CEFE trainer license, issued by CEFE International. Coaching in CEFE is predominantly done in a facilitating manner, where the coach mainly asks questions and challenges the coached person to learn from own insights, observa-tions and analysis.
Objectives are, inter alia:
to enable new trainers to conduct CEFE exercises in an independent way to introduce them into course management (e.g. preparation of training material, arrangement of training facility etc.) to strengthen CEFE competence among licensed trainers by mutual feedback
In Sierra Leone, a CEFE ToT was executed within the framework of the GIZ project Youth employ-ment through agricultural de-velopment. 16 participants from diferent organizations (such as Welthungerhilfe, Sierra Leone
Indigenous Business Association, GIZ and others) participated. Subsequent to the ToT, coachings helped the trainees to indepen-dently execute ive-days training courses with the beneiciaries, which in this case were Commu-nity Animal Health Workers, just recently starting their businesses. CEFE International also went to Uganda to execute a 12-day CEFE Training of Trainers for 15 staf members of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), focus-sing on rural development. The training was carried out in Kam-pala, Uganda, but participants also came from IRC Ethiopia and Burundi.
In Iraq, we supported the Interna-tional Organization for Migration (IOM) by coaching three Master Trainer candidates during a ToT, together with Normita and
Roberto Palo. They will help deliver CEFE to give people a better life perspective in a very critical environment.
Within the GIZ IDEE programme in Algeria, we also joined 10 CEFistas who had very few op-portunities to apply CEFE during the past 10 years to get updated in recent developments and qualiied as CEFE Green Business trainers. This will be continued in December 2015 and January 2016 by qualifying a new group in this special module and to certify two Green Business Master Trainers.
We are proud that the number of CEFE facilitators is constantly growing and hope to soon have a strong CEFE network in these countries.
CEFE International
COACHING ACTIVITIES
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BUSINESS LINKAGESGLOBUS FOR
CEFE method for the improve-ment of international economic cooperation.
Sustainable economic develop-ment is signiicantly inluenced by the skills of managers in the pri-vate sector. In globalized markets, competitiveness is further de-termined by the competence to forge business cooperation with other countries and to implement them successfully.
The aim of GIZ’s Global Business Exchange Program (GloBus) is to strengthen management skills of executives from small and me-dium-sized enterprises through training, dialogue and network-ing and to qualify them for the needs of international economic relations, particularly with Germa-ny. The target groups are top and middle managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The manager trainings are ofered by local well reputed universities in the partner countries where managers are prepared for their initiation of international business transactions. In order to strength-en the capacities of those organi-zations in the topic of external trade relations, Training of Train-ers (ToT) were executed in Ger-many for the partnering countries Morocco, Colombia and Peru.
The two-week trainings were im-plemented by CEFE International four times from 2012 until 2015 and included topics such as man-agement tools and skills, interna-tional economic relations, market access and intercultural work with Germany etc. The trainings were accompanied by company visits, fair attendance, ield studies as well as a cultural program in order to get irst hands experience of the German culture and habits.
As with all CEFE trainings, also the ToT within the GloBus frame-work used participant-centered, action-oriented training, which speciically aims at participants’ self-empowerment. Such meth-ods are hardly used in the part-ner countries but were very well received by the participants and later integrated in their own Management Trainings. Morocco was an exception; most profes-sors attending the ToT resisted in changing their roles from teacher to facilitator.
Our CEFE trainers did not only im-part knowledge and understand-ing regarding economic coopera-tion between German and foreign enterprises but also supported ToT participants to develop their own Management Trainings. Coaching sessions by our trainers in the partnering countries com-pleted the CEFE Training of Train-ers in the various Global Business Exchange Programs.
This way, the programs did not only boost the competences of managers in order to enter into successful business relations with German companies but also trained facilitators of vari-ous institutes in Morocco, Colombia and Peru to apply action-oriented training methods in their curricula.
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CEFE TRAININGSCANVAS IN
When in 2001 Steve Jobs launched his iconic iPod brand of portable media player, he didn’t have any business plan - but he had a clear picture of his business model in mind.
Yet Apple was not the irst com-pany to bring a portable media player onto market, but the
potent combination of device, software, and online store quickly disrupted the music industry and gave Apple a dominant market position.
Steve Jobs was an outstanding personality and his achievements rather the exception. But not a week goes by where some crea-
tive people enter new markets or bring existing ones in disorder with new innovative products or services - usually without a classi-cal business plan, but sometimes with a business model in mind. The size of the company plays a minor role – it is more the entre-preneurial spirit that counts.
CANVAS is a Business Model Gen-eration tool, initially proposed by Alexander Osterwalder in 2004. It is a strategic management and lean start-up template for devel-oping new or improving existing business models. It describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value. The business model is a brief overview of the company that is updated frequently. Hereby, visualization is very important, because sketching a model transforms it into a persistent object and a conceptual anchor to which discussions can always return.
In the past, CEFE International has successfully linked CANVAS with the Manager Training Programme of GIZ, for example in Colombia and Peru. Applying this tool, par-ticipants were able to efectively structure business ideas into professional strategies with much better success chances. Further, it has been linked by many CEFistas
around the world like in Suriname for lean start-ups, in Indonesia as management tool or even in Germany in innovation training.
We are trying to merge the difer-ent approaches into one training module. Please feel invited to share your experiences with us.
Lothar Willms, Germany
THE BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS consists of 9 segments/sections with the following questions:
How does the business deliver value to its customers? (Key resources)
How does the business segment the market? (Customer segment) How do they reach the customers? (Channels)
How does the business develop a relationship and retain customers? (Customer relationships)
What actions does the company make to operate successfully? (Key activities)
How does the company receive its resources to create its value proposition? (Value proposition)
Who does the company work with? (Key partnerships)
What are all the areas the company uses to generate its revenue? (Revenue streams)
What costs does the business incur? (Cost structure)
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BREAKING NEWSPEOPLE LOOK FOR BETTER LIVING
Hundreds of thousands are escap-ing from war, terror, hopeless-ness to Europe. At the same time, outrageous acts of terror send shockwaves. And the old conti-nent inds itself unprepared.
While countries like Lebanon, Tur-key and Jordan individually host more refugees than the European Union altogether, we looked at boat people crossing the Medi-terranean Sea from Africa, and counted by thousands. Did we look at or care for the millions in Near and Middle East? Not really. While the blood toll from terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria sur-mounts 500 humans every single day, we did not think about nor prepare for a mass exodus. Now that Europe faces one million or more refugees in 2015 and per-haps even more next year, politi-cians in panic look for solutions. And development cooperation is challenged as well, of course, and CEFE with it.
Under CEFE International’s point of view, these refugees are endowed with exceptional entrepreneurial characteristics: creativity, deinition of objectives, risk tolerance, decision making, persistence… And they are even capable of generating inance.
To deal with the challenge we might structure it based on the causes: People who deliberately leave their home country, looking for opportunities. They do not escape but oicially emigrate. Action: use their enormous potential for projects. On behalf of GIZ CEFE International developed the so-called MITOS (Migration Tools – Options for Sustainability), providing 16 tools that help leveraging the potential of migration for private sector development, thus contributing to increased employment and income. Migrants can be seen as natural and very knowledgeable partners to deal with refugees.
People without hope and future at home, living mostly in poverty. They rather have illusions concerning a decent livelihood in countries that will send them back as soon as legal procedures are settled. Action: they need to be integrated back home. Simply repatriating them does not solve anything. CEFE can ofer preparatory enabling training abroad and efective entrepreneurial capacity building in the home countries. People being persecuted for political, religious or ethnological reasons they fear and run for their lives. In Europe, asylum should usually be granted, including residence and work permits. Action: they have a right to be integrated abroad. CEFE can contribute a lot on the human and economic side. It can further support them to understand intercultural communications, by providing tools and space for discussion.
In general, we are faced with integration, reintegration and combat-ing the causes of light. It requires a paradigm change among decision makers of international cooperation with regard to quick impact and huge outreach:
1 Individual instead of institutional sustainability;
2 Efective roll-out instead of pilot measures with little impact for the target groups;
3 Leverage at micro and meso level instead of enabling environment approaches;
4 Use of lexible local organisations (NGOs, INGOs) for implementation instead of heavy duty cooperation;
5 Idea contests with impact indicators as selection criteria instead of lengthy tenders forcing action into corsets;
6 Massive public relation campaigns.
Joining our forces I am absolutely sure that the network can reach hundreds of thousands of refugees living in misery with a wide range of diferent tools.
Eberhard Bärenz, Germany
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CEFE AROUND THE
WORLD
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CEFE IMPRESSIONS
FIRST GLOBAL CEFE COOPERATION
CEFE INDONESIA’S RURACCELERATION
PROCESS INNOVATION IN BDS DEVELOPMENT
A STEP IN THE STAIRCASE TO CEFE 2020
GREENOVATION
CENTRO CAPE - THE EVOLUTION OVER THE YEARS
A SUCCESS STORY FROM IRAQ
NETWORK CEFE PERU AMBITIONS AND CHALLENGES
KEEPING THE CEFE LAMP BURNUING IN MANILA
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IMPRESSIONS..CEFE
Creo que CEFE es la mejor forma de enseñar y aprender al mismo tiempo, la conexión que se logra con las personas participantes es única y la metodología permite aprender y enseñar profunda-mente, se garantiza el aprendizaje.
Muchas de las herramientas de la metodología son fácilmente aplicables en diferentes áreas de la consultoría, por lo que el uso cotidiano (que comprende el 95 % de mis intervenciones) con-stituyen ejercicios estructurados con CEFE.
Finalmente la vinculación con la Red de CEFE Internacional me ha permitido ir más allá de mis alcances y ver lo que se hace en todos los países donde CEFE está presente, su sistema de certiicación me brinda apoyo y proporciona garantía a quienes me contratan.
Gracias a CEFE ahora tenemos una empresa denominada Ase-sores para El Desarrollo Empresar-ial S.A de C.V. y trabajamos en 10 países de América Latina desar-rollando diseño instruccional, transferencias metodológicas de servicios de formación, e-learning y asistencia técnica.
English version:
I think CEFE is the best way to teach and learn at the same time. The connection established between the participants and the facilitator as well as among the participants is unique and guar-antees profound learning.
Many of the tools of the meth-odology are readily applicable in diferent areas of consulting, so the day-to-day work (comprising 95% of my interventions) consists of structured CEFE exercises.
The linkage with the CEFE Inter-national Network has allowed me to go beyond my scope and see what is done in all countries where CEFE is present. Further-more, the uniied certiication system gives me support and provides quality assurance to my clients.
Thanks to CEFE we have a compa-ny called The Business Develop-ment Advisors Ltd. and we work in 10 Latin American countries developing instructional design, methodological transfers of training services, e-learning and technical assistance.
Fabio Emilio Buiza, El Salvador
En 1992 participamos del primer taller de Formación de Facilita-dores en CEFE realizado en Chile. Desde esa fecha en TPH adopta-mos esta innovadora modalidad de Formación para guiar las ac-ciones de formación que realiza-mos con diversos grupos obje-tivos, especialmente en el ámbito del desarrollo de habilidades de emprendimiento y gestión de unidades económicas de peque-ña escala.
En CEFE encontramos un ex-celente método para facilitar pro-cesos de formación que tienen en su centro a las personas, que per-miten a los participantes expre-sarse en su lenguaje, emociones y corporalidad y de esta manera vivenciar y desarrollar sus ha-bilidades. Para mantenernos actualizados y en permanente formación nos involucramos en la RED CEFE que nos ha provisto de intercambios, identidad, actualizaciones y un sentido de pertenencia a un movimiento de facilitadores.
En 1996 optamos por transferir esta metodología a otras institu-ciones y personas que trabajan en Formación. Desde ese año hemos facilitado y gestionado más de 30 talleres de Formación de Facili-tadores (TOTs) en Chile y otros países de Latinoamérica.Hemos perseverado con CEFE pues en el encontramos un método que nos permite lograr simultáneamente avances sig-niicativos en varios ámbitos del desarrollo de las personas y en un ambiente grupal de mucha afectividad, respeto y libertad. La complementamos con otros herramientas como el Coaching
Ontológico, Enfoque de Género, Trabajo Corporal, Biodanza, y mé-todos para modelar y presentar propuestas de emprendimiento e innovación.Nuestro desafío en este ámbito es reforzar la promoción y la utili-zación de la metodología CEFE. Nos motiva enormemente que se incorpore cada vez mas en los programas de emprendimientos de manera que se centren mas en las personas, que respetan sus necesidades, valores e identi-dad cultural y que contribuyen a un desarrollo social humano, solidario y democrático. Para esta pretensión es básico propender a una aplicación de CEFE rigurosa, que cuide la calidad en su apli-cación y sus principios fundamen-tales.
English version:
In 1992, we participated in the irst training workshop for CEFE facilitators held in Chile. From that date, we adopted this innovative form of training in the ield of development of entrepreneurship and management skills of SMEs.CEFE is an excellent method to facilitate training processes which enable participants to express themselves in their own language and sentiments and to experience and develop their skills.
To keep ourselves up to date, we engage in the CEFE network activities which ofer exchange among CEFE members all over the world and give us a sense of belonging to a global movement of facilitators.In 1996, we opted to transfer this methodology to other institutions and individuals working in facili-tation. Since then we have pro-vided and managed more than 30 Trainings of Trainers (ToTs) in Chile and other Latin American countries.In CEFE we found a method that allows us to achieve signiicant progress in several areas of indi-viduals’ development in a group setting of much afection, respect and liberty. We complement CEFE with other tools like the Ontologi-cal Coaching, Gender Focus, Bio-danza, and methods for elaborat-ing and presenting proposals for entrepreneurship and innovation.Our challenge is to strengthen the promotion and use of the CEFE methodology. To see that the methodology, which respects the needs, values and cultural identity of each participant and thereby leads to a social human develop-ment, motivates us greatly. In order to meet our goals, a rigor-ous application of CEFE, which respects the fundamental prin-ciples and quality standards, is necessary.
Jorge Tagle y Paulina Pacheco,Chile
. . FROM EL SALVADOR
.. FROM CHILE
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CEFE COOPERATIONFIRST GLOBAL
OBJECTIVES ARE THE FOLLOWING
Joint project on Youth Unemployment
CEFE partner organisations from i ve dif erent countries and four dif erent continents started the i rst global cooperation within the CEFE network in 2015.The consortium consisting of
CEFE Macedonia, Plataforma Áurea Chile, Philippines CEFE Network Foundation Inc., Busi-ness Works Ltd. Jamaica and CEFE International received funds from the European Commission for the project “Global Exchange and Training for Youth Employment Services – GET YES” for the com-ponent “Cooperation for innova-
tion and the exchange of good practices“.
This is a two-year project under the Erasmus + Program to foster strategic partnerships in capacity building for youth in ACP coun-tries, Latin America and Asia. It is for the i rst time that this kind of global cooperation within the
CEFE network is realized. Each of the participating organi-zations in the project is work-ing in the i eld of employment generation through dif erent activities and knows very well the situation in their respective coun-tries regarding unemployment. By fostering strategic coopera-tion, the consortium will launch and implement innovative youth work practices as well as develop new forms of practical training schemes, tools and methods in order to successfully increase youth competences.
The problem with youth unem-ployment is becoming an increas-ingly pressing issue and it needs to be addressed through tailored
activities leading to the creation of new job opportunities. There-fore, the main goal of the project is to enhance exchanges, upgrade and roll out of good practices between the participating organi-zations specialized in employ-ment generation, thus enhancing their capacities for the reduction of youth unemployment, profes-sionalization of youth workers and support of entrepreneurship.
to raise the capacities of partner organizations dealing with youth, through exchange of best practices of youth employ- ment, human resource capacity building, and strategically connect them with the Erasmus+ program;
to launch, test and implement youth work practices such as training tools, modules and methods for the professional development of youth workers and trainers;
to develop methods increasing competences of 200 young unemployed people;
to develop a compendium whit training modules and to publish brochures illustrating best practices for combating youth unemployment;
to promote strategic cooperation between youth organizations and organizations in the education and training i elds, as well with representatives from the private sector and labor market.
Elena Stojanovska,Project Coordinator and Information Offi cer,
CEFE Macedonia
ADDITIONAL REMARKfrom CEFE International
Our respect and congratulations to CEFE Macedonia! It was the i rst time that an international project was initi-ated and successfully of ered to a ma-jor donor organization by a national CEFE association, bringing other CEFE groups together within one project. It was a huge ef ort from CEFE Macedo-nia - CEFE International only provided contacts to those interested in partici-pating. And somehow we regret that not more took the opportunity and had the persistence to prepare the tender documents. We are looking for-ward to co-work with Chile, Jamaica, the Philippines and Macedonia during the coming 2 years.
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RURACCELERATIONCEFE INDONESIA’S
One of the main policy goals of the new government of the Republic of Indonesia is to ac-celerate national development in villages and in outer areas of the country. Infrastructure is being built, such as roads, dams, harbors, electricity turbines and railways. The central government is also distributing “village funds” for the economic development such as for establishing village-owned companies. However, a recent survey reveals that most village leaders and villagers in Indonesia are not yet capable to use these funds.
As in many rural regions world-wide, also the situation in Indo-nesia’s remote areas is critical. The major part of the rural population is engaged in the agricultural sec-tor. Most farmers inherited their farming businesses or do not have any other choice as to work in this sector. They do not think of their farms as business oppor-tunities and are not familiar with economic issues. This leads to a rather traditional than market-oriented choice of crops, weak bargaining position with buyers (mostly at the farm gate) and unfavorable loans from money lenders.
Another precarious issue is that young people prefer to work in the formal sector in one of the cities after having completed their studies in senior high school or university. As a result, there is
a lack of educated human re-sources in rural areas. Counteract-ing rural exit therefore seems to be crucial in order to accelerate national economic development. This is where CEFE trainings have an immense impact.
Since 2014, training providers involve CEFE Indonesia to build cooperation with national and multinational companies, NGOs, the Central Bank of Indonesia, regional and national banking institutes, central credit coop-eratives as well as agriculture-cooperatives to conduct capacity building using the CEFE method. CEFE Indonesia now provides not only business trainings for SMEs, but also specialized trainings for agriculture and conducted 12-days and 21-days Start-up Busi-ness Trainings for young farmers. Furthermore, speciic trainings on inancial literacy for farmer fami-lies have been carried out. They include modules on budgeting, saving, and debt management, on identifying business proiles for farmer organizations, busi-ness plan training for agriculture, strategic business planning for dairy cooperatives as well as on basic business skills improvement for rural businesses.
The most recent training is a CEFE Appreciation Workshop for university students which was fol-lowed by 100 students from eight selected universities and was sponsored by the Central Bank
of Indonesia. The main objec-tive of the workshop is to show that entrepreneurship can be a successful career if prepared and realized in a serious and profes-sional manner.
Eforts undertaken by CEFE Indo-nesia help to enhance capacities of young people and farmers in order to actively participate in Indonesia`s market and, by that, to contribute to the national de-velopment of the country.
Sugeng Priyanto, Indonesia
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BDS-DEVELOPMENT PROCESS INNOVATION IN
The development and capacity-building of Regional BDS-provid-ers is one activity of the entrepre-neurship component (executed by the Consortium PEM Consult-Mesopartner-BuSoDev) that is part of the GIZ programme “Ca-pacity Strengthening for Private Sector Development in Myanmar”. This is done in close collaboration with ILO and with the national governmental Department for SME Development (DSMED) and its regional branches.
Why a program to develop Re-gional BDS-providers? The strong concentration on BDS-providers/trainers from Yangon, the economic capital of Myanmar, has shown not to be very practi-cal. Many of the trainers are very busy with other businesses or have so many well-paying (inter-national donor) clients that they are hardly available for interven-tions elsewhere. Nor are many of them interested to look for their own clients for trainings. Also, training without follow-up is not very efective and the fact that the providers/trainers are not based in the region itself makes the training and follow-up com-plicated and expensive. At the moment, there are very few real BDS-providers in the re-gions in Myanmar providing only one or two very speciic (techni-cal) services such as IT or market-ing support. The basic idea is to identify exist-ing businesses like private train-
ing schools or any other business/entity that is motivated to be-come a professional BDS-provider that are based in the diferent regions and that are interested to provide entrepreneurship train-ing to their own students/clients and eventually develop business management courses for existing entrepreneurs in their home-city/region on a commercial basis. Both GIZ (CEFE) and ILO (SIYB) are running SME support-programs in
Myanmar. Combining forces and eforts to avoid unnecessary com-petition has led to the strategic decision to work together on this regional BDS program. Moreover the 2 methodologies, CEFE and SIYB, are rather complementary and their combination should be proitable for both trainers and entrepreneurs.
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGESof trying to work with existing local BDS-providers?
They are entrepreneurs running their own schools and/or (social) enterprises They are installed in the region and are thus also available for afordable training and follow-up
There is hardly any ofer regarding business management trainings and/or entrepreneurship trainings in the regions so the market is still open
This kind of local training schools and (social) enterprises have already a basic infrastructure and a (small) staf of trainers Last but not least, these businesses are installed and rooted in their home region and already have their own network and are planning to be there also in the long term
RESULTS SO FAR
We are half-way through the pro-cess. Potential candidates were identiied and participated in a 1st ToT. They are receiving coach-ing to practice/realize an action learning based training (mainly CEFE-based). A 2nd ToT is planned for February 2016 with a special focus on the ILO training material already available in Myanmar lan-guage. This ToT will be followed by a 2nd round of coaching.
As of May 2016, the regional BDS-providers are expected to provide commercially based business management and entrepreneur-ship training. We found highly motivated regional BDS-providers that are already moving faster as planned. They all recognized this opportu-nity as a very proitable one and are investing a lot of time and energy to make it a success.
Ton van der Krabben
with the assistance from Moe Aung (BuSoDev), Mike Jamar (ILO),
Sebastian Gilcher (GIZ), Henning Bungards (PEM Consult)
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CEFE 2020A STEP IN THE STAIRCASE
En julio 2015 en dos jornadas extenuantes y llenas de nuevos ejercicios se desarrolló la actu-alización de CEFistas 2015 en El Salvador. Este esfuerzo es parte de los compromisos suscritos por todos los CEFistas certiicados de América Latina en la Conferencia Latinoamericana CEFE desar-rollada en Belo Horizonte, Brasil en Marzo de 2015, para seguir difundiendo CEFE y su sistema de licencias y certiicación de com-petencias.Desde junio del 2014 en la reunión de Valparaíso, Chile se estableció actualizar los parámet-ros para medir la calidad de las personas CEFistas y de los talleres de Training of Trainers (TOT) para aspirantes a certiicarse.Con los nuevos parámetros se de-sarrolla ahora en todos los países donde hay representación CEFE un ejercicio de realimentación de conocimientos e información de la metodología.
English version:
A 2-days CEFE actualization work-shop took place this summer in El Salvador. The workshop was illed with new comprehensive and exciting CEFE exercises as well as information sessions about recent developments in the CEFE Net-work Latin America. The execu-tion of the workshop is part of the commitments made by all CE-Fistas during the Latin American Conference conducted in Belo Horizonte in March 2015. One of the established goals there was to continue spreading CEFE and its system of licensing and certiica-tion standards.
During the regional CEFE confer-ence in Chile in 2014, it was joint-ly decided that quality standards for the certiication of CEFE train-ers and CEFE courses (especially the Training of Trainers) need to be updated and uniied. The CEFE trainers who participated at the regional conferences now inform the CEFE communities in their countries about the details discussed and decisions taken regarding the new standards and certiication system.
En El Salvador, el taller contó con la presencia de 8 personas que utilizan regularmente la metodología en sus labores de formación y consultoría y parte de la temática desarrollada fue la siguiente:
Actualización de conceptos básicos de la metodología CEFE
Fundamentos básicos del Ciclo de Aprendizaje Vivencial (CAV) Mapas Conceptuales Aplicaciones Tecnológicas en ejercicios Aplicaciones de facilitación gráica y nuevas técnicas de visualización en ejercicios
Sistema de licencias y certiicación de competencias
Acuerdos previos para la conformacíón de una Red CEFE SV
In El Salvador, the workshop was attended by 8 people who regu-larly use the CEFE methodology in their work and consultation.
The main topics discussed during the two days were:
Update of the basic concepts of the CEFE methodology
Basics of the Experiential Learning Cycle Conceptual maps Technological applications in exercises New visualization techniques in exercises New licensing and certiication system Previous agreements for the creation of a CEFE Network
También las personas par-ticipantes compartieron nuevos ejercicios y experiencias con la metodología y los cursos CEFE. En deinitiva ese curso fue un gran éxito.
Fabio Emilio Buiza, El Salvador
The participants also shared new exercises and experiences with the methodology and past CEFE courses. The meeting was dei-nitely a great success.
Fabio Emilio Buiza, El Salvador
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GREENOVATIONTHE NEW CEFE?
Would you be able to recognize the new CEFE if you see (or feel) one?
Last August, GIZ piloted GreenO-vation, a fusion between CEFE and Hackathon. Like CEFE, it is so exciting. But unlike CEFE, no lectures and 90% is done outside a room. The structure is the same, but the delivery very diferent. One yields entrepreneurs, the other one startups (Apps, pro-grams, websites, etc.).
The Manila event asked for mo-bile phone apps that help SMEs to build the habit of using “green” practices. The Apps must remind the users on the sustainable use of energy, materials, water, solid waste, transport, supplies and natural resource management.
At its core, GreenOvation is a con-test with three steps: campaign, selection and elimination. Instead of campaigning for individuals, it focuses on teams of three (idea owner, programmer, and graph-ics). The campaign targeted male and female students, profes-sionals, entrepreneurs, overseas workers and even retirees. The event attracted 33 teams of which 23 were selected to the elimina-tion rounds consisting of 3 days. Day 1 was dedicated to idea and business modelling, day 2 to prototyping and market it, day 3 to intensive mentoring and a inal demo. There were more co-spon-sors (software, phone-makers, government, and other private irms) than GIZ could handle. Many volunteered as mentors, judges and investors. On day 3, the best ive teams pitched to the judges. Finally, one team was declared the winner who got cash prizes and 6-month GIZ technical support. A team of 15 year olds submitted an App that can stop the entire system (gas, electricity, water, oil, etc.) of a plant or house in case of earthquake, lood, ire, etc. with one click, irrespective of distance.
If you are a CEFE trainer looking at the event, you would have felt the creativity, energy, passion, and inspiration of the new young en-trepreneurs, out not only to make proit but to solve a real problem of the world. Really awesome! Again...will you recognize CEFE if you see GreenOvation?
The GIZ FactSheet is available from Ed Canela ([email protected]).
Ed Canela, Philippines
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CENTRO CAPETHE EVOLUTION OVER THE YEARS
I remember very clearly until today when in 1989 I went to the Ministry of Labour looking for a German man named Baerenz to get information about Belo Hori-zonte’s favelas because I was mak-ing a project for BID and someone told me he had a program with the GTZ called Pro-Renda (pro-income).
I remember the shining in Baer-enz’s eyes and his proud talking about this CEFE whereof I had no idea what it was about. But I ac-cepted what he was proposing: to do an experiment with Mãos de Minas’s associates or even to use our NGO to do a test.
Today, 26 years later, we have de-veloped so much and are encoun-tering new challenges...
We expect that the experiential courses possibly will be out of the market in around 10 years. And we released a challenge of chang-ing our courses to on-line train-ing. The development of exercises was no problem, but we did not (yet) succeed in organising the two steps of the CEFE experiential learning cycle, namely “process-ing” and “generalization”. We tried hangouts, skype meetings, etc..., but we always realised that, when we started publication and discussion, people just closed the
window and left, perhaps feeling annoyed or frustrated. Conse-quently, we could not accomplish our learning objectives.
We did not give up but we still have not found the ideal tech-nology solution for turning the necessary peer learning into something fascinating.
Analyzing the customers of Jogo de Empresas (our company that sells training kits) we see that 60% of them have never made a CEFE course and sometimes try for hours to understand the learning cycle or even a simple application of an exercise.
Another issue discussed was the freight costs for the consignment of products for both Brazil and Latin America. As the products are very cheap, they end up taking three times the price of the prod-uct. So we are now facing another challenge: how to qualify people who use the CEFE Exercises and how to reduce the dispatch cost of the products?
Instead of just writing the man-ual, we will record a video lesson showing the application of the exercise as a “plus”. Who has CEFE and knows the cycle simply buys the product only with the writ-
ten manual (on CD). Whoever does not, can buy a video lesson. This way, Jogos de Empresa will also ofer exercises to the market which do not require a kit, be-cause the material can easily be prepared by the customers.
The other development is 3D printing of training material for exercises where it is possible. The customer will go to a 3D supplier and “print” the material, in coop-eration with 3DHubs. Three years ago we already thought about it, but it was neither inancially feasible nor were there suicient suppliers of 3D printing services. It will not be very cheap, but will soon become routine and then we’ll be already on the market.For ourselves, rather than keep-ing products on stock, waiting for customer orders, “we will print” when the order arrives. We bought a 3D printer so we will be able to create the prototypes of new games or even ofer services for other consultants who may need to produce material for trainings.
ICCAPE - Instituto Centro de Capacitação e Apoio ao Pequeno
Empreendedor, Brazil
CEFE ONLINE
CEFE IN 3D
VIDEO CLASS at home
FROM IRAQA SUCCESS STORY
Kameran Hana Amin is a 38 year-old father of seven, currently living in the Kani Sard community near Sulaymaniyah. He is a farmer whose family has always grown vegetables. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) assistance enabled him to expand his businesses two years ago after he received a business support package for poultry farming. Kameran was also provided with business counseling services by IOM –CEFE local Trainers using CEFE methodology to support expand his business during a three-days training. “I learned how to ind new customers and cooperate with diferent partners. I’ve also gained more knowledge on selling techniques” - he told IOM.
As a result, over the past two years Kameran has expanded his businesses and developed rela-tions between its two main com-ponents: growing vegetables and fruits and raising poultry. Income obtained from selling the vegeta-bles and fruits is used to purchase more chickens, who then produce eggs.
In the past two years Kameran became the only egg supplier in his area. Additionally, bird ma-nure serves as fertilizer for his vegetables and fruits. His success encouraged Kameran to help the community of his wife in Halabja. Every day he sends 40-50 eggs that are distributed to vulnerable
members of the community by his wife’s family. Kameran is look-ing forward to further expand his business.
The support provided to Kam-eran was under the Community Revitalization Programme (CRP) – Phase IV, which was established in Iraq in 2007 that has assisted thousands of people over the last eight years. Since 2012 CRP is using CEFE as training methodol-ogy. In total, 8.000 people were trained in CEFE.
Many of those who were reached in the previous phases are cur-rently accomplished business-men and women with prospects for future business development and expansion. CRP’s holistic ap-proach to the community devel-opment ensures that IOM activi-ties target members of both host communities and the displaced populations.
IOM Iraq Mission
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NETWORK CEFE PERUAMBITIONS AND CHALLENGES
Compartiremos brevemente la experiencia de una Red generada por un grupo de facilitadores(as) en Perú. ¿Qué tenemos en común? En primer lugar, el impacto di-recto del proceso formativo CEFE. La expresión “CEFE cambió mi vida” es algo común entre Ceis-tas. Pero no es lo único. Estamos convencidos que el enfoque CEFE y los productos y servicios gener-ados, producen cambios positivos en diversos periles de personas. Y este convencimiento se refuerza cuando: al aplicar correctamente la metodología logramos “tocar el corazón, retar a la razón y mover a la acción” y quienes participan en la capacitación empiezan a quebrar sus esquemas para re-construir otros, las personas se sienten cómodas por compartir su forma de ver y comprender el mundo, cuando se sienten bien satisfechas y dicen que es genial “aprender temas tan complejos en forma tan sencilla”, las vivencias del aula se trasladen a otros espacios donde las personas siguen compartiendo lo que experimentaron durante la capacitación en grupo,
las personas se dan cuenta de lo impor tante que es desaprender para aprender, y logran competencias para emprender y gestionar sus proyectos con mayor éxito.
Adaptándonos al nuevo esce-nario CEFE Internacional que propone fortalecer los vínculos con las redes regionales y nacion-ales, conformamos un Comité de gestión de la Red integrado por facilitadores(as) de diversas organizaciones locales. Iniciamos preguntándonos ¿Por qué y para qué trabajar en Red? Nuestras respuestas fueron claras: Porque necesitamos mantener activa la comunidad CEFE, adaptándonos al nuevo contexto y gestión de CEFE internacional.
Para organizar el IV Encuentro Nacional de Ceistas y ser sede del I Encuentro Master Trainers CEFE LATAM (Latinoamérica).
Para mantener el estándar de calidad de formación de facilitadores y seguir promoviendo CEFE en el mercado de proveedores de servicios de capacitación.
¿Cómo lo hacemos? Conformamos un equipo de Ceistas voluntarios e involucrados en desar rollar la metodología;
Apoyamos el cumplimiento de los acuerdos CEFE LATAM (Valparaíso 2014, Belo Horizonte 2015):
Coordinamos las iniciativas de ToT surgidas en el país y mantenemos comunicación con CI;
Mantenemos reuniones mensuales presenciales y vía skype;
Pero surgen los problemas por las agendas recargada. Mantener una “Red Nacional articulada” y con presencia mundial genera costos; la comunicación, el interés y las contribuciones a veces son luctuantes, pese al deseo de sus miembros…sobre esta realidad seguimos compartiendo y avan-zando. Son retos aún en curso. “Un viaje de mil millas se inicia con un primer paso”.
Gloria Núñez Altamirano, Peru
English version:
We would like to briely share the experience of a network created by a group of facilitators in Peru. What do we have in common? First of all, the direct impact we experience with CEFE trainings. The term “CEFE changed my life” is common among CEFistas. But that’s not all. We are convinced that the CEFE approach and the products and services produced efect positive changes in people. Especially:
if we correctly apply the methodology so that we “touch the heart, challenge and trigger action” and those involved in the training begin to break their old schemes and create new ones,
when our participants feel comfortable to share their perceptions and emotions and feel satisied to “learn complex issues in such a simple way”,
when our participants continue to share what they experienced during the training and apply it outside the training facilities,
when our participants realize how important it is to learn to unlearn, and achieve competences in order to manage projects more successfully.
Adapting to the new setting proposed by CEFE International, i.e. to strengthen links with re-gional and national networks, we decided to form a management committee composed of the Peruvian network facilitators from various local organizations. Before we started, we asked ourselves why we should undertake such networking activities. Our answers were clear:
Because we need to be active and want to adapt to the wishes of the Latin- American CEFE community for regional cooperation,
Because we would like to organize the fourth national meeting of CEFistas in Peru and to host the irst reunion of CEFE Master Trainers from Latin America,
Because we want to maintain the quality standards of CEFE trainings and furthermore to promote CEFE trainings on the market.
How do we do it?
We formed a team of CEFistas involved in the development of the methodology,
We support the implementation of the decisions agreed at the CEFE LATAM conference (Valparaiso 2014, Belo Horizonte 2015);
We coordinate ToT initiatives arising in the country and maintain communication with CEFE International,
We organize monthly meetings.
However, despite the high en-thusiasm of CEFE volunteers in Peru, problems arise. Keeping a national network alive generates costs, and communication, inter-est and contributions of members sometimes luctuate. There are a lot of challenges which need to be addressed. But as the phrase goes: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a irst step.”
Gloria Núñez Altamirano, Peru
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MANILAKEEPING THE CEFE LAMP BURNING
The CEFE approach continues to be a component in our unique propositions to clients in the Phil-ippines. Here are some activities we have done this year.
Two of our clients, PhilRice and the Agricultural Training Institute of the Department of Agriculture have expressed delight over our experiential approaches to open-ing up the mindsets of farmers to become entrepreneurs. We have introduced their trainers, exten-sion oicers and partners (farm-ers and farm suppliers/service providers) to a series of training programs covering CEFE, Gender and Enterprise Together (GET-Ahead), Local Economic Develop-ment (LED), Entrefarm and BEST Game.
We implemented the fourth year of experiment in enterprise edu-cation. We documented our ef-forts to introduce kindergarten to grade 3 children to an entrepre-neurship-infused curriculum. We believe that schools and school-ing processes should not perpet-uate societal divisions along eco-nomic and occupational roles to which children are born. Without
intentional educational interven-tion the poor and marginalized are often socialized into continu-ing poverty by the type of char-acters they develop in the course of their development. We believe that one factor which makes our job as CEFE trainers diicult is that schools produce people ac-cording to a “job order” illed with attributes that are needed to ill modes of work that the market demands. Usually from among the poor who need economic emancipation the most, schooled individuals are ready and willing to occupy thoughtless and un-critical subordination to authority, along with a sense of inadequacy and powerlessness. These char-acter attributes serve the needs of enterprises in the short term, making the already rich richer, but are not likely to lead to long term economic prosperity for
the poor who need to under-stand and exercise their personal agency for their own develop-ment. Our enterprise education eforts are meant to generate an alternative to our “Unlocking Competencies” module in CEFE. Instead of focusing on Unlocking, we want to focus on “Developing Competencies” from childhood onwards, before the characters of young people are frozen with a non-enterprising spirit.
Anji Resurreccion, Passion for Perfection,
Philippines
AGRICULTURE
EDUCATION
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THOUGHTS ACCELERATOR À LA FRANCOPHONE
THE LATAM STORM
CEFISTAS UNITED
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À LA FRANCOPHONETHOUGHTS ACCELERATOR
La 3ème rencontre des facilita-teurs CEFE de l’Afrique Franco-phone s’est déroulée au Maroc, du 05 au 09 Janvier 2015. Les 2 premiers jours de la rencontre se sont déroulés au Centre de la Fon-dation Mohamed V de solidarité à Bouknadel-Salé, et les 3 derniers jours à l’hôtel Farah Inn à Ifrane.
Les objectifs alloués à ces rencon-tres périodiques sont de permet-tre un échange sur les diverses ex-périences de CEFE dans les pays francophones et l’arène globale, de renforcer le réseau des facilita-teurs, de réléchir en commun sur le développement de l’approche et des produits au niveau local, régional et international et de développer des coopérations entre les membres.
Les représentants des diférents pays, à savoir l’Algérie, la Tunisie, le Togo, le Sénégal, le Mali et le Maroc ont présenté l’état des lieux du marché CEFE dans leurs pays. Ces présentations ont dé-montré le caractère particulier de certaines expériences qui pour-rait être dupliquées dans d’autres pays, et ont aussi conirmé les grandes possibilités de complé-mentarité et de coopération au niveau régional.
English version:
The 3rd meeting of CEFE facilita-tors in francophone Africa was held in Morocco from 5 to 9 Janu-ary 2015. The irst 2 days of the meeting took place at the Centre of the Mohamed V Foundation for Solidarity in Bouknadel-Salé, and the last 3 days in Ifrane, a small city in the northern part of the country.
The objectives attributed to these periodic meetings are to enable an exchange on the diferent ex-periences of CEFE in francophone countries and the global arena, to strengthen the network of facilitators, to relect together on the development of the CEFE ap-proach and on products at local, regional and international level as well as to develop cooperation among members.
The representatives of Algeria, Tunisia, Togo, Senegal, Mali and Morocco presented recent CEFE projects in their countries. These presentations demonstrated the special character of some experiences that could be repli-cated in other countries and also conirmed the great potential for complementarity and coopera-tion at regional level.
La discussion autour des coopé-rations à développer au niveau national, régional, et international était au coeur des discussions de la rencontre. Les participants étaient encouragés à y réléchir tout au long des 5 jours, que ce soit au niveau du programme oiciel ou au niveau des pauses et rencontres hors programmes. Les participants ont travaillé, par groupe, sur les avantages et in-convénients de travailler unique-ment au niveau national, de coopérer au niveau régional et de développer encore cette coopéra-tion au niveau international.
L’accent n’avait pas seulement été placé sur les discussions et les travaux de group, mais aussi sur la construction de la coniance entre les participants et en visitant les endroits incroyables du Maroc et de la dégustation de la délicieuse cuisine marocaine.
REEM Moubadarat, Morocco
The discussions to develop na-tional, regional, and international cooperation were at the heart of the meeting. Participants worked in groups on the advantages and disadvantages of working only at national level, to cooperate regionally and to further develop this cooperation internationally. To maximize the beneits of ex-panded cooperation and reduce constraints related thereto, action proposals were presented by participants and led to fruitful discussions.
But the meeting in Morocco was also about sharing and learning innovative exercises, about build-ing trust among the participants and visiting the incredible places of Morocco and tasting the deli-cious Moroccan cuisine.
REEM Moubadarat, Maroc
Note de CEFE International: En somme, ce fut une semaine chargée et excitante et nous sommes très reconnaissants pour l’organisation et la coordination fait par Reem Moubadart - un partenaire autorisé de CEFE Inter-national.
Note by CEFE International: All in one, it was a busy and exciting week and we are thankful for the lawless organization and coordi-nation done by REEM Moubadarat – an authorized partner of CEFE International.
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LATAM STORMTHE
The take-of was bumpy.
In 2011-2013 we tried to organise a regional CEFE meeting for Latin America with the support of some entrepreneurial CEFE networkers on this continent. And we failed three times: it always started with great interest, but the closer the event the more people aban-doned the participants’ list. Until we concluded that our initiatives for creating a Latin American (LatAm) network were in vain – so we informed the CEFistas accord-ingly. The echo was amazing, furious enough to bring some leading CEFistas together for making things really happen.
In a cold June 2014, 16 ceistas met in Valparaiso, Chile, and de-bated, with a very open agenda, the essence of CEFE and princi-ples of quality. Without intent, it became a huge project of crucial importance for CEFE. Several working groups were created with topics such as ToT standards and network communication.
And follow-up meetings were planned to share the news and activate participation at regional level, among others by meetings at regional level: June 2014 in Belo Horizonte for Brazil
Nov. 2014 in Nicaragua for Central America July 2015 in El Salvador for Central America
All this was self-organised and inanced. More than 100 people participated in the various events and over 2,000 were frequently informed online. It led to a unique dynamic of new contacts and exchange, breaking the wall of isolation in which so many CEFis-tas are living.
Finally, results were coming out and a concluding conference took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, that already hosted the famous last global CEFE conference in 1997 and a LatAm meeting in 2009.
From 19 until 22 March 2015, 25 CEFistas from all over Latin America (Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru) transformed various ideas and work group re-sults into alternative conclusions, ready for inal approval by the participants representing LatAm CEFE. Melting this into a inal agreement – the “Acuerdo” – was not easy at all. Diferent worlds of thought, values and interests had to merge. And despite so many individual approaches and so little cross-fertilizing in the past, the common denominator CEFE came out clearly. Fundamental
decisions have been made – at a level that last was achieved in the famous global conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 1994: Minimum standards for ToTs: content, methods, process, option, duration, coaching;
Conditions to obtain a licence: pre-requisites, scoring system, validity;
Certiication system: responsibility, criteria, categories, costs and validity;
Certiication of Master Trainers: responsibility, distance evaluation, criteria, costs, validity; including a LatAm list of candidates for the new procedure;
Creation of a LatAm net: principles, access, objectives, regional tasks and accountability.
The storm brought brightness and clarity. The follow-up of all this is a challenge for all involved. The new LatAm system will be tested for about 2 years and then shared with all other continents.
CEFE International, 2015
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OUTLOOK 2016CEFE
NETWORK ACTIVITIES
UPCOMING AND ONGOING PROJECTS
CEFE Asia Conference Manila, March 2016 CEFE Latin-American Conference November 2016
Implementation of regionally adapted CEFE certiication system in Latin America
Establishment of an impact assessment in Latin America
India
Innovation Promotion in the MSME Sector in IndiaCEFE International in coopera-tion with Steinbeis Germany and Steinbeis India
// NOV 2015 – JAN 2017
China
Three-month training course and tutorial, supporting the creation of cooperation projects between the Chinese province Jiangsu and the German province North Rhine-Westphalia // DEC 2015 – JUNE 2016
CEFE Basics
Business Skill Improvement
Business Start-up
Successful Marketing
Business Idea Generation
Business Plan Preparation
CEFE in Finance
Training for Creditors
Access to Finance
Peace Enforcement
Peace Education Conlict Management
Integrated Livelihood
Sustainable Business
Green Business
Integral Entrepreneurship / Social Leadership
CEFE for Youngsters
CEFE in Education for Kids Youth Employment
Labour Market Development
Vocational Training Skills
CEFE Employabiliy
Public Private Economy Cooperation
Business Advocacy
PPP
Local Economic Development
CEFE Specials
Women Entrepreneurship
Cooperative Development
CEFE Canvas
Export Management
Innovation Training
Rural Development
Pre-Micro Entrepreneurship
SME Growth
Migration 4 DevelopmentEU Erasmus Plus Project
Global exchange and training for youth employment services in co-operation with CEFE Macedonia, Plataforma Áurea Chile, Philippine CEFE Network Foundation Inc. and Business Works Ltd. Jamaica
// NOV 2015 – MAY 2017
Morocco
Economic promotion and rural development in deprived areas of Morocco in cooperation with AFC Consultants International and GOPA Consultants
// OCT 2015 – SEP 2018
Germany
BMWI Manager Training Pro-gramme CEFE International in cooperation with CONOSCOPE GmbH
// 2016
PRODUCTSCEFE
30 Years’ Experience
48 Partners World Wide
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