TRAINING SERVICES

To achieve our mandate of Building Malawian Businesses, we provide training services in the following areas:

Marketing Services- This is a specialized training to entrepreneurs in marketing. We train them in various marketing aspects in order for them to boost their businesses and also to promote and expand their market share. The areas are:

• Product and services development
• Market assessment
• Market survival
• Marketing mix management
• Customer care
• Customer-buyer relationship
• Writing and developing wining proposals and business plans
• Supervisory skills
• Costing and Pricing

DEMAT also links profit making businesses and entrepreneurs to potential market and service providers in order to increase sales and ensure that there is conducive business environment.  A team of Marketing Specialists assist entrepreneurs in identifying, accessing markets for their products and market survival techniques through provision of marketing information.

Entrepreneurship Services- This training service involve provision of training in the following areas:

• Business identification
• Control of business opportunities
• Business start-up techniques
• Group formation and co-operative development
• Entrepreneurial skills
• Group dynamics for groups, associations and co-oparatives for the purposes of improving their managerial capacities.
  
  Production / Technical Services- Production and agro-based business advice are offered through technical trainings and Consultancy by a team of well equipped Production Specialists and areas of training are like:
• Management of Beef and Dairy Cows ,
• Broiler and Layer Management
• Feed Making/Mixing
• Selection of suitable technologies
• Construction and maintenance of simple workshop tools
• Construction of structures such as chicken khola
• Wine making/production
• Quality assurance
• Tailoring
• Screen Printing
• Mushroom growing
• Bakery
• Small Scale Irrigation
  
  Credit Management Services- At DEMAT, we also provide training in Credit Management skills to individuals or group loanees or would be loanees on how best they can manage the credit.