This study provides quantitative and qualitative data pertaining to the implementation of the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme between 2011 and 2015. SIYB is a management training programme with a focus on starting and improving small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment for women and men, particularly in emerging economies. The programme is composed of a set of interrelated training packages and support materials for different levels of business maturity from starting to growing enterprises. It is implemented through a multiple-tier structure compri
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This study provides quantitative and qualitative data pertaining to the implementation of the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme between 2011 and 2015. SIYB is a management training programme with a focus on starting and improving small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment for women and men, particularly in emerging economies. The programme is composed of a set of interrelated training packages and support materials for different levels of business maturity from starting to growing enterprises. It is implemented through a multiple-tier structure comprising Master Trainers, Trainers and entrepreneur-level end-beneficiaries.
The main findings of the study are as follows: By the end of 2015, the SIYB programme had trained 380 Master Trainers and 64,740 Trainers in close to 3,340 partner organizations in more than 100 countries. Together, these trainers had trained an estimated 15 million SIYB trainees. Out of these 15 million, 10.5 million were trained in the period 2011-15; The outreach of the period 2011-15 (10.5 million) was over twice as high as that (4.5 million) documented in the previous tracer studies, covering the period from the early 1990s to 2010, showing a rapid global expansion of the programme; On the basis of previous impact assessments and tracer studies, it is estimated that this outreach has led to the start-up of at least 2.65 million new businesses and the expansion of 40 per cent of existing businesses, creating close to 9 million jobs globally in new and existing businesses by the end of 2015; Given these numbers, SIYB is one of the largest programmes of its kind worldwide; Two key challenges remain: (i) given the size and scope of the global programme, data collection continues to be difficult and numbers can only be considered estimates (ii) while SIYB is one of the most intensively studied programmes of its kind, the overall impact of the training is more difficult to establish than outreach numbers.
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