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Business Literacy - Nepal

(Nepal): USAID/Nepal's Business Literacy Program is a major component of the Feed the Future Strategy in Nepal. The primary objective of the Business Literacy Program is to increase the resilience of vulnerable households and communities through enhanced literacy, numeracy and business/entrepreneurial skills. The program provides entrepreneurial literacy training to 48,000 beneficiaries from vulnerable groups, defined as women, ethnic minorities, disadvantaged castes and youth. These beneficiaries are a subset of beneficiaries from the primary Feed the Future project, the Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition (KISAN) project. The Business Literacy Program is geographically targeted in 20 Terai and lower hill districts in the Far-Western, Mid-Western, and Western Regions of Nepal.The three key program elements are: 1) developing business literacy training materials; 2) conducting a training of trainers program; and 3) delivering business literacy training to beneficiaries. Project beneficiaries attend a year-long training program two hours per day, six days per week.USAID's Business Literacy Program in Nepal will use $400,000 from FY 2015 funds to provide enhance entrepreneurial literacy training to beneficiaries.

Source-reported status: completed. Timeline labels use reported dates and do not verify current activity.