Training Module 4: Enhancing Financial and Business Management Skills

This is the fourth in a series of seven training modules titled Developing Leadership and Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade.

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This module focuses on enhancing financial and business management skills of workers, both cooperatively and individually, and has four main objectives:

• To help the members of the womens' groups understand the importance of managing their money and understand how to gain access to financial resources.
• To help the members of the womens' groups to understand how to keep good records.
• To improve business sense in the activities of the womens' groups.
• To help the members of the women groups to appreciate how to run their meetings and which records to keep for the meetings.