Africa-Press – Angola. Sixty-five Angolan citizens received, this Friday, in Luanda, certificates from the “Projecto Envolver” Mentorship Scholarship, for business training and financing for micro, small and medium-sized companies.
Beneficiaries should help train entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals in the areas of “business plan”, “business models”, “feasibility study”, “financial instruments” and “legal responsibility”.
Nuno Gonçalves, administrator of the Institute for Support to Small, Medium Enterprises and Innovation (IAPMEI – from Portugal) explained that the “Envolver Project” is the result of an existing collaboration with counterparts INAPEM (Angola) and IPS ( also from Portugal).
He said that it is financed by the European Union, with the aim of training Angolan entrepreneurs, with skills that allow them to finance their own projects and mentor other people.
“For example, with banking institutions it is important for an entrepreneur to be able to count on more resources, in addition to those that are theirs, to be able to invest in business”, highlighted the manager.
According to the interlocutor, this training is specifically to support mentors who already have some knowledge, and who can then also instruct other people, in ways to facilitate the reading of financially sustainable projects.
Nuno Gonçalves highlighted that the “Projecto Envolver” started in Luanda and will cover the 18 provinces, now heading to Benguela, with the same purpose of training everyone who needs training to be able to increase their business.
In turn, the head of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS), Ângela Lemos, stated that this training is specifically to support mentors who already have some knowledge in the area of entrepreneurship.
“We work with the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and another higher education institution in Lisbon, where there are a large number of professors involved with the aim of training Angolans to be successful in their entrepreneurship initiatives”, he said.
The Executive Administrator of the National Institute for Support to Small and Medium Enterprises (INAPEM), Bráulio Augusto, said that this training component can create a more favorable environment for access to financing.
“(……) the project has been in existence for three years, it has already formed several groups that will also join the incubator network, in order to support other people and promote refreshment sessions”, he highlighted.
The objective of this project, he explained, is to provide entrepreneurs with conditions and tools so that they can make better business plans, and by presenting better business plans to banks, they would be more likely to obtain financing.
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