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Agri Planner

The AgriPlanner business simulation training tool is designed to assist emerging farmers with their production capacity and financial planning. AgriPlanner goes beyond the practicalities of simply growing to look at how growers could make the most productive use of the land and maximize their financial income. It provides a comprehensive business development and entrepreneurship training programme that adds value to the gardening skills training programmes and enables growers and small-scale farmers to take the first steps from basic subsistence (food security) to income-generation and small business development. AgriPlanner directly supports growers in establishing and running viable businesses and gives the knowledge and means through which they can begin to enter the formal economy.

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Best Game

Based on SAIE's flagship product, The Best Game, these programmes have now been expanded to include courses for service, retail, manufacturing and agricultural sectors. The courses available within these sectors are appropriate for community development organisations, companies and tertiary institutions.

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BusinessVentures

Business VENTURES is a series of entrepreneurship learning resources for grades 2-12. Each of the modules provides all the materials required to facilitate and learn about entrepreneurship and business during one year. SAIE has designed a set of learning materials for each grade at schools. These materials comply with all the requirements to teach the Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) learning area (which includes entrepreneurship.) These resources are packaged in a zipped porticase and are reusable year on year.

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Careers Development!!!

Deutsche: career development

CONNECTED!

CONNECTED! supports the tracking of progress of all participants in the 2009 programme. The participants will use the system to log progress, capture all required information and complete specific programme related tasks

Craft Your Business

From Ag Shame to Hey wow

Development Projects

Through the process of project implementation and continuous reflections derived from evaluations, SAIE is constantly faced with opportunities to develop further innovative entrepreneurship solutions to challenging developmental and educational problems. In the past this has resulted in the internationally used BEST Game, AgriPlanner and AgriPlan-It, the BusinessVENTURES range and the Wings of Welcome tourism program. Once a development process is completed and a new product is created, it is then used in the course of our project implementation.

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Evaluations

SAIE seeks to affirm and enhance the impact of our entrepreneurial training products and services to our end users: primary, secondary and tertiary learners and underprivileged communities. We also seek to improve delivery methods, improving efficiency and reducing costs. In addition, evaluations help us to confirm if we are achieving what we intended to and compare what we think we are doing and what we are actually doing. Feedback with both flaws/weak spots/pitfalls and strengths give us the scope to interrogate, improve and fill gaps where they emerge. The rich insights (discoveries) from our evaluations provide feedback into our learning cycle. Thus, our evaluations lend themselves to capacity building as they enforce our product development and implementation of projects. Unlike previous SAIE evaluations, we are moving away from exclusively quantitative methods. They tend to be restrictive as most conclusions revolve around statistical and methodological ‘accuracy’, ‘reliability’ and ‘validity’ at the expense of reflections and recommendations. SAIE has thus embarked on the development and deployment of a comprehensive evaluation program called EntrEval. It is derived from the EvaluLead framework, an evaluation process that was jointly developed by the WK Kellogg Foundation and USAID on a foundation of Monitoring and Evaluation global best practice.

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Institutional Strengthening

Over the years, from a funding perspective, NGOs have not only battled to balance their cash flow but also tend to live from feast to famine – with many falling by the wayside in their attempts to meet their social objectives while also attempting to be financially sustainable. SAIE is no exception – however it has managed this juggling act for over a decade. Donors’ traditionally only prefer to fund the direct costs of project leaving NGOs with the challenge of scrounging for their running costs. This leaves little room for growth, innovation and organizational strengthening. Because of this, SAIE has established an Institutional Strengthening Fund. Donations to this fund will be invested into a money market environment, and as such will earn interest. Only the interest will be used from the fund to support operational overheads. As the fund grows, so too will the interest and at a point in the future the value of the fund will be able to generate the interest required to support the organization on a month-by-month basis.

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International program

International program

International Projects

Unlike regular SAIE programs which are carried out periodically, SAIE routinely conducts international trainings. In most cases, independent agents conduct the training after receiving master trainer training from SAIE. In other cases, SAIE service providers and staff may conduct the training on behalf of the firm. The training is usually customized to meet the unique characteristics of the recipient groups.

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Learnership and Internship Programme

In line with South Africa's skills development strategy, and also as a way of utilizing the facilities available to firms to recruit learners and interns, SAIE has developed a Learnership and Internship Program. Interns are taken from South African and foreign Universities and they are attached to SAIE for a period varying from one month to 12 months. SAIE's Internship and Learnership Program bridges the gap between a student’s theoretical college education and the world of work, giving the student both work experience and practical, tangible skills ranging from organisational administration and project management, monitoring and evaluation, fieldwork, research and electronic management systems (Management Information Systems)

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Life Skills

The Life Skills Programmes are a series of life skills learning resources for grades 2-12. The programme covers a range of materials which include 1. The 10 Commitments and workbooks; 2. The Movers Map and workbooks; 3. Dilemmas - interactive game; 4. Trade Offs -interactive game; and 5. Micro Moves cards. These resources are packaged in a zipped porticase and are reusable year on year.

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Special Projects

Exclusive project are conducted in South Africa like BusinessVENTURES and Agri-PlanIt. However, the difference between regular SAIE training programs and exclusive projects is that the later are done sporadically and that there is no long term binding contractual relationship between the implementer and SAIE. This prevents SAIE from conducting the regular follow-up and assessment procedures. These projects are conducted by a host of trainers and for MIS, website and archiving purposes there is no strict distinction among the different SAIE programs. The recipients of our training are various types of clients from individuals to organisation who wish to gain entrepreneurial skills.

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Translations

Education minister Naledi Pandor said on the 15th of February 2007 that she strongly supported the use of Afrikaans and other indigenous languages as media of instruction in schools. Educational research has shown that people learn faster in their own language and many developing nations are considering other options after the low success rates of the traditional model of education based on an official language. SAIE supports the need for language to be an enabler not an inhibitor and has made every effort to provide translated materials where funding is available.

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Welcome World

Program logic for developing "tourism orientated" mindsets in tourism business.

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