Work and Enterpreneurship

Explore the diverse landscape of women’s work and entrepreneurship, gaining insights into their roles, challenges, and contributions across various sectors. Learn about strategies to make women’s work visible, overcome constraints, and enhance productivity through targeted interventions. Understand the intricacies of managing enterprises, from resource mobilization to production management, while fostering entrepreneurial competencies and motivation. Delve into the importance of gender-sensitive income generation projects and the impact of globalization on livelihoods, equipping yourself with knowledge essential for empowering women and driving economic growth.

Work and Enterpreneurship

1 Assessing Women’s Work Patterns

  1. Introduction
  2. The Status of Women in India
  3. Areas of Work for the Poor
  4. Poor Women’s Work
  5. General Profile
  6. Agriculture
  7. Livestock
  8. Forestry
  9. Fisheries
  10. Environment
  11. Rural Production
  12. Food Security

2 Accounting for Women’s Work

  1. Introduction
  2. What Constitutes Women’s Work
  3. Making Women’s Work “Visible”
  4. Barter and Informal Work
  5. Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
  6. Physical and Health Burdens
  7. Legal and Economic Disparities
  8. Economic Value of Domestic Work
  9. Women’s Organizing and Advocacy

3 Overcoming Constraints Women Face in Transition from Subsistence Level Activities

  1. Introduction
  2. Characteristics of the Informal Sector
  3. Roles of Women in Their Enterprises
  4. Nature of Constraints of Women Entrepreneurs
  5. Family Responsibilities
  6. Lack of Control Over Assets
  7. Community Participation Barriers
  8. Improving the Lives of Women
  9. Case of Lakshmi

4 Types of Interventions to Enhance Women’s Income and Productivity

  1. Introduction
  2. Issues Responsible for Low Productivity
  3. Types of Interventions
  4. Sector-Specific Interventions
  5. Policy and Programmatic Interventions
  6. Case Study: Paddy Dehusking in Orissa
  7. Group vs. Individual Enterprises

5 The Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurial Competencies- Lessons for the Trainer

  1. Introduction
  2. Entrepreneurial Competencies
  3. Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs
  4. Trainer’s Roles and Responsibilities
  5. Developing Entrepreneurial Qualities
  6. Skills for Effective Training

6 Entrepreneurial Activities- Overcoming Barriers for Women

  1. What is Entrepreneurship?
  2. Individual Constraints
  3. Constraints in Society
  4. Barriers for Women
  5. Group Activity 1
  6. Broken Squares Group Exercise

7 Developing Entrepreneurial Qualities- Attitudes, Competencies and Skills

  1. Introduction
  2. Women, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
  3. Entrepreneurial Competencies
  4. Helping Women to Assess their Business Ideas
  5. Empowerment through Enterprise
  6. Boat Making Exercise

8 Achievement Motivation Training

  1. Introduction
  2. Moving from Survival to Entrepreneurship
  3. Motives for Entrepreneurship
  4. EMT Development
  5. Tower Building Exercise
  6. Creation of Entrepreneurs

9 Business Idea Generation

  1. Introduction
  2. Business Idea Generation
  3. Basic Rules of Brainstorming
  4. Selection of Business Ideas for Further Research
  5. Group Exercise: “Channa Dhan”

10 Steps in Managing an Enterprise

  1. Introduction
  2. Types of Microenterprise Managed by Women
  3. Selection of an Enterprise
  4. Setting Up an Enterprise
  5. Case Study: Ratna Enterprises

11 Production and Operations Management (POM)

  1. Planning and Scheduling Production
  2. Ensuring Flow of Materials
  3. Purchasing
  4. Maintenance of Quality
  5. Increasing Productivity

12 Resource Mobilization

  1. Types of Resources
  2. Assessing the Need for Resources
  3. Capital Resources
  4. Mobilizing Resources
  5. Developing a Capital Resourcing Plan

13 Statutory Requirements

  1. Role of NGOs and Government
  2. Legal Entity of an Organization
  3. Employee Benefit Schemes
  4. Sector-Specific Statutory Requirements
  5. Forms of Business Organization

14 Feasibility of an Enterprise

  1. Importance of Feasibility Studies
  2. Steps to Conduct a Feasibility Study
  3. Case Study: Manukaria’s Tea and Grocery Shop
  4. Key Elements of a Feasibility Study
  5. Using Surveys in Feasibility Studies

15 SWOT Analysis

  1. Introduction to SWOT Analysis
  2. Conducting a SWOT Analysis
  3. Case Study: Ramvati’s Pickle Business
  4. Limitations of SWOT Analysis
  5. Practical Applications of SWOT Analysis

16 Business Plan Formulation

  1. Introduction
  2. Need for Business Plan
  3. Preparation of Business Plan
  4. General Information
  5. Production Details
  6. Required Resources and Their Sources
  7. Market and Marketing of Product
  8. Capital for Enterprise and Cost of Product
  9. Estimates of Profit
  10. Balance Sheet

17 Managing Working Capital

  1. Introduction
  2. Assessment of Working Capital
  3. Management of Working Capital
  4. Stages in Managing Working Capital
  5. Working Capital Assessment Exercise

18 Costing and Pricing

  1. Introduction
  2. Costing
  3. Types of Costs
  4. Pricing
  5. Break-Even Analysis
  6. Methods of Pricing

19 Inventory Management

  1. Introduction
  2. Ensuring Flow of Material and Inventory Management
  3. Reorder Point Calculation
  4. Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
  5. Inventory Control Techniques

20 Budgeting and Budgetary Control

  1. Introduction
  2. Importance of Budgets
  3. Budgetary Control
  4. Cash Flow
  5. Keeping Business Accounts
  6. Profit and Loss Account

21 Understanding People’s Behaviour in Groups

  1. What is a Group?
  2. Why Work in Groups?
  3. How Can a Group Perform Effectively?
  4. Group Enterprises vs. Individual Enterprises
  5. Group Exercise: Tree of Life

22 Building Motivation and Commitment

  1. Introduction to Motivation
  2. Problems of Poor Women and the Role of Motivation
  3. Motivational Factors Influencing Women to Become Entrepreneurs
  4. Employee Motivation Training
  5. Group Exercise: Ring Toss Game

23 Recruiting People and Human Resource Development

  1. Introduction to Human Resource Development (HRD)
  2. Steps in Recruiting and Selecting the Right Person
  3. Training and Developing Employees
  4. Rewards Management in Microenterprises
  5. Group Exercise: Mock Interview

24 Planning a Food Service Establishment- Lakshmi’s Story

  1. Introduction to Lakshmi’s Story
  2. Surveying the Market and Making Initial Decisions
  3. Deciding on the Menu
  4. Calculating Expenditure and Budgeting
  5. Generating Funds and Assessing Feasibility

25 Building a Gender-Sensitive Model for Income Generation Projects

  1. Issues in Livelihood Security for Poverty Alleviation
  2. Impact of Globalization on Livelihoods
  3. Gender Analysis and Roles
  4. Capacity-Building Requirements for Women in IGPs
  5. Designing Gender-Sensitive IGPs