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PlaNet Finance Nepal is organizing the 8th Handicraft Trade Fair and 6th Craft Competition implemented by its local partner Federation of Handicraft Association of Nepal (FHAN). The event will take place from February 18th to 22nd 2010 in Kathmandu.
The fair aims to promote Nepalese handicraft and entrepreneurship through products exhibition on the one hand, and business meetings with both national and international sellers on the other hand.
For more info, please visit: www.smelink.com.np
Nepalese entrepreneurs heading towards Europe
The SMElink project, implemented by PlaNet Finance in Nepal is co- funded by the European Commission. The project is entering its third and final year. For two years, more than 150 Nepalese Small and Medium Entrepreneurs have learnt about various business-
related issues in order to fulfill their dreams of exporting to Europe.
The Small and Medium Entrepreneurs were selected sector-wise, according to a preliminary survey about European demand for Nepalese supply. The chosen sectors were Jewellery and Metalcraft, Pashmina and sustainable tourism.
Since February 2008, entrepreneurs attend training courses on business planning, marketing, quality management system (QMS) and information technologies. These courses led to various concrete results like the designing of their own business plans (for 50 among them) in Year 1; in Year 2, 62 of them came up with their own marketing plan. The QMS training scheme is still going on and will empower 50 entrepreneurs to get a certification based on the ISO 9000- 2000 format. As for the Information Technologies training course, entrepreneurs are now able to use it in their everyday business (word, internet, etc.) and 25 entrepreneurs who did not have a website before, now do.