Certification course for home-based workers launched at IBA

Karachi: The orientation ceremony for a new women entrepreneurship initiative was held on Wednesday at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) AMAN CED.

The IBA has launched this programme in association along with the Aurat Foundation under their Gender Equity Programme (GEP) supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

As per the given statement by IBA, the programme will mark the start of a certificate programme that is particularly designed for home-based women workers in Karachi and Quetta.

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“This program is a humble effort of IBA AMAN CED towards facilitating Pakistani women to develop as well as foster an entrepreneurial mindset, permitting them to chase the entrepreneurial opportunities.”

According to the given statement, for this programme, the partners have chosen 50 skilled women, who have committed to begin their own businesses and are extremely excited to have found such an opportunity.

The introduction of the 28-day programme was given by Soha Zulfiqar, manager of the Women Entrepreneurship Programme, who explained the requirement of this programme for women.

She shed the light on the concept behind this program by explaining the targets, objectives and expected results of the programme.

The programme will be taught in Urdu.

The programme director, Dr Shahid Qureshi in his welcome address said,

“We want to encourage the women and youth of Pakistan and the IBA will keep playing a vital role via its many initiatives.”

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Dr Qureshi told the participants that the IBA had started the Women Entrepreneurial Programme in 2014.

“Another accomplishment for the IBA AMAN CED is the IBA Karachi winning USASBE’s coveted award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education 2017.

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The United Association for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) has named the IBA Karachi’s Womenx Programme, which is sponsored by the World Bank, as the Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program Award Winner of 2017. It was for the first time that a university outside the United States has won this prominent award.”

Mehnaz Rehman of the Aurat Foundation said the home-based workers were now a permissible entity and will be given the rights too, according to the laws of the International Labor Organization.