CEFE Highlights

To give you a picture of why CEFE is different from other training methodologies, here are photos of some of our activities that we have carried out so far.

From July 2002 to May 2003 about 90 mostly illiterate artisans were trained in the Rumphi area of North Malawi in Business Management. The course was held in the local vernacular Chi-tumbuka. Here, by means of an activity-based exercise illiterate people realise the interdependence of business and society and culture and their effects on the entrepreneur. They evaluate other persons' behaviours as reaction to failures, self-control under pressure situations, self-confidence and persistence.

Since its CEFE Malawi's launch in 2000, the international CEFE-Trainer Eberhard Baerenz has coached BEED's associated CEFE-Trainers in several Training-of-Trainers workshops and given them continuing technical support. In this picture, Blantyre trainers are introduced into a new Structured Learning Exercise (SLE) called "The Ball Compan". This exercise has been developed to enhance efficiency and performance and goal orientation (November 2002).

BEED has also carried out various CEFE-based Training-of-Trainers courses for other institutions like TEVETA and CADECOM. Here, in May 2003 TEVETA trainers present their business plan developed during the training. As a result of this course, CEFE Entrepreneurship Training is to be introduced into the curricula of Vocational Training in Malawi.

BEED took also advantage of the Trade Fair in Blantyre in May/June 2003 to further promote CEFE in Malawi. Here, visitors participate in front of the Chamber House in a CEFE activity, in which participants are required to cooperate with others in order to achieve a common goal. The attendant shall realize that networking is an important factor for success. BEED-CEFE had the honour that even Mr. President Bakili Muluzu visited our stand.

In summer 2002, 88 vocational students of Mikolongwe Vocational School and their teachers were trained in CEFE 1-2-3. This 9-day package, developed by BEED-Malawi particularly for the Malawian context, is extremely suitable for forthcoming school-leavers, who are mostly ill-prepared for their time after school and do often face unemployment and personal insecurity. CEFE 1-2-3 makes the attendants discover their personal strengths, build up their self-confidence and develop a plan for their life and business.

In July 2003, BEED carried out a 3-days training in Makapwa in Social Development Issues. This course had been recently developed and been tailored to the specific need of our customers, thanks to CEFE's uniqueness of being a training methodology that can be easily applied and adapted to even other topics than business management, like for example Gender, HIV-AIDS and Youth issues, Farming, etc. In the picture, graduates present their Certificate