Agribusiness

More Income and Employment for Rural Areas-Capacity Building for Small Businesses under the Innovative Business Challenge in the MIERA Phase II. UMODZI Consulting was contracted to build the capacity of small agricultural businesses using the MSME Loop tool. The businesses were in the category of Agriculture, tourism and sustainable business materials.

Consultancy Services to Conduct a Scooping Study, Assess, Select, Establish, Monitor and Provide Business Development Services to Farmer Based Organizations and Small and Medium Enterprises for Non-Communicable Related Disease Patients and Households in Neno District with support from Hemsley Charitable Trust.

Provision of Incubation and Business Development Services to Selected Eco-Inclusive TVET Incubates under the SEED TVET Program. In addition TVET College Tutors were trained as Trainer of Trainers.

Consultancy Services of Providing Incubation and Acceleration Business Development Services to Eco-Inclusive Small and Medium Enterprises and Promising Youth led Startups under the following 6 Programmes: Replicator Programme, Startup Programme, Catalyser Programme, Accelerator Programme, Business Development Service and Trainer of Trainers Programme and Policy Prototype-programmes.

Selection and Provision of Incubation and Entrepreneurship Training for 82 Youth in Manufacturing Sector under the Jobs for Youth Project funded by the African Development Fund and Malawi Government.

Consultancy Services to Support, Assess, Monitor and Provide Business Development Services to Small and Medium Enterprises in early-stage agriculture, food processing and value addition, off-grid energy and youth-led enterprises in Malawi which involves screening of the SMEs, applications and selection and business project development.

Consultancy Services to Assess, Select and Support Fish Farmers and Groups in Malawi under the Aquaculture Value Chain Project funded by GIZ which also involved capacity building training, fish feed and fingerlings provision and market linkages in all the three regions in Malawi.

Consultancy assignment of the Selection and Recommendation of SMEs and Large Scale Businesses in Food Processing, Agriculture, Energy and Other Sectors for Business Development Services and Access to Finance for Malawi Agricultural and Industrial Investment Corporation (MAIIC).

Consultancy assignment to facilitate the Development of Business Plans and Resource Mobilization Strategy for Civil Society Organizations and Farmer Organizations where UMODZI Consulting conducted the business diagnostics of the CSO and FOs, developed training materials, delivered the trainings, facilitated the process of developing the business plans and resource mobilization strategy.

Capacity Building of Cohort 1 and 2 of Conservation Enterprises in Entrepreneurship, Record Keeping, Sales and Marketing, Business Planning, Community Engagement, Business Model and delivering Trainers of Trainer to TechnoServe Malawi Staff under the REFRESH Project.

Under the Smallholder Irrigation and Value Addition Project (SIVAP), UMODZI Consulting was engaged to assist in formation and registration of Water Users Associations and cooperatives in 7 districts namely Karonga, Nkhotakota, Salima, Machinga, Nsanje, Chikwawa and Thyolo.Providing business management trainings

Facilitating development of business plans

Facilitating market linkages

UMODZI Consulting was contracted to deliver business management trainings and impart the SMEs with entrepreneurship skills

Facilitating market linkages for SMEs

UMODZI Consulting was engaged to build the capacity of SMEs in basic business management and facilitate the development of business plans

Facilitated registration of irrigation farming groups as cooperatives in Chikwawa and Nsanje.

UMODZI also facilitated market linkages for the registered cooperatives

Conducted business management trainings.

Developing business plans for cooperatives

UMODZI Consulting was engaged to build the capacity of the cassava farmer organisations in business planning and marketing

Coached and Mentored cooperatives for a period of 4 months

Conducting business planning training to farmer organisations

Developing business plans

UMODZI Consulting was engaged to conduct needs assessment of the women seed companies and then develop and deliver trainings in standard operating procedures of a business.

UMODZI Consulting was engaged to provide business management training to area mechanics and spare parts shops in Chikwawa and then developed business plans.

Developing business plans for area mechanics and spare parts shops

UMODZI Consulting was engaged by Irrigation Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development Project (IRLADP) to work with over 40 farmer-based organisations in Chikwawa, Nsanje, Phalombe, Blantyre, Nkhatabay and Rumphi

UMODZI Consulting carried out a quick assessment of the targeted FBOs highlighting capacity gaps and opportunities.

UMODZI Consulting developed training materials on the basis of gaps identified.

UMODZI Consulting facilitated business and financial management trainings

UMODZI Consulting facilitated the development of bankable Business Plans for all FBOs

UMODZI Consulting was engaged by the Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains project funded by USAID to facilitate the development of business plan for 10 farmer cooperatives in Mchinji and Lilongwe.

UMODZI Consulting consultants facilitated Business plan development workshops, capacity building training workshops in financial management, marketing, negotiations, leadership, conflict resolution

UMODZI also facilitated the registration of Milk Bulking Groups, Farmers Associations to cooperatives through providing expertise, linking the milk bulking groups to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

We also assisted in mentorship and coaching in the areas of financial management, farmer group registration, leadership and management. This aspect helped the cooperative and farmer organisations to be sustainable in their business activities.

UMODZI Consulting designed and conducted training in entrepreneurship, marketing and financial management for a group of fish farmers who received loans from AEM.

UMODZI Consulting then provided business coaching in financial management and records keeping by visiting the fish farmers to provide further advice depending on their individual needs in Blantyre, Thyolo and Zomba

Facilitated development of a Business Plan

UMODZI Consulting was engaged to train and profile farmers on Esoko platform, a Market Information Systems that helps to improve the agricultural value chain through dissemination of market information using mobile phones and also build Fair trade of farmers. UMODZI Consulting trained 27 rice farmer groups on Esoko in Salima and Nkhotakota.

UMODZI Consulting further assisted the farmers-based organisations along the value chains of Rice and Cassava on how they can work with the private business to enhance the supply chain. UMODZI Consulting developed business plan in production of HQCF and did feasibility studies for rice puffs and animal feeds from rice husks.

UMODZI Consulting facilitated business plan development and management workshop to players in cassava and rice value chains in Salima and Nkhotakota

UMODZI Consulting conducted series of workshops, (environmental scanning and strategy formulation workshops) to understand the performance of the association as well as the needs and expectations of the association and its members. This helped in the development of strategic plan

UMODZI Consulting developed training materials and conducted series of workshops in financial management, sales and marketing, action planning for members of Grain Traders Association of Malawi

UMODZI Consulting also facilitated business plan workshops to the members of Grain Traders Association in Lilongwe and Blantyre with a focus on financial management and record keeping, sales and marketing, business planning, leadership

UMODZI Consulting delivered a range of consultancy services to Business Group Scheme's clients. Some of the services UMODZI Consulting provided included, Business Plans, Mentorship and coaching, Marketing Plans, entrepreneurship skills development trainings, organisational review and feasibility studies

Some of the BUGS clients UMODZI Consulting worked with included: Donga Traders, Horizon Health Ltd, Kabula Industrial Safety Services Ltd, Mathepa Transport Ltd, Circles Enterprises Ltd, Nali Ltd, Sophar Private Schools etc.

Conducted a feasibility study for a groundnut processing and exporting business, and later on developed a Business plan for an organisation carrying out the business

Development of Business Plan, which included conducting feasibility study for commercial production and marketing of vaccines and other medicines used in animal farming.

Provision of business plan review, mentorship and coaching, and market and financing linkages to 42 agricultural cooperatives and associations in 6 districts across the country

Developing of Business Management Training Manual