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Enhancing Our Heritage : Business Skills Sharing Pilot Project

Enhancing Our Heritage : Business Skills Sharing Pilot Project. Business Planning Toolkit background and status Pilot Project training to date Business Planning Toolkit overview Feedback from Pilot Project. Business Planning Toolkit Background and Status.

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Enhancing Our Heritage : Business Skills Sharing Pilot Project

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  1. Enhancing Our Heritage : Business Skills Sharing Pilot Project • Business Planning Toolkit background and status • Pilot Project training to date • Business Planning Toolkit overview • Feedback from Pilot Project

  2. Business Planning Toolkit Background and Status • Shell Foundation developed Business Planning Toolkit specific to EOH project, with support from Shell International business consultants, in 2004/5 • Toolkit covers key areas of • business planning, • resourcing an organisation to realise the plan (finance and people) • implementing the activities needed to achieve the planned goals • Toolkit designed to provide clear guidance, useable by conservation organisations of all sizes, with a minimum of ‘business jargon’ • Toolkit takes the form of • Powerpoint slidepack for each key business planning topic, provides overview and guidance • Embedded tools provide instruction for more detailed analysis and plans • Embedded examples to illustrate the theory

  3. Pilot Project Training To Date • Two pilot project trainings completed with Seychelles Island Foundation (SIF) and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), to transfer business skills for the management of the Valle de Mai, Aldabra Atoll and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest World Heritage sites • Each organisation received 2 training visits to transfer skills and support them in developing a business plan as well as back office mentoring support • Business Planning Toolkit has been updated with feedback from both SIF and UWA to fill any identified gaps and improve the clarity of the language used • Examples from UWA and SIF have been used to illustrate the Toolkit

  4. Where is the organisation now ? Where do they want to get to ? Who has a role to play ? What opportunities/threats are there ? Who are their ‘customers’ ? Who are their ‘competitors’ ? What external factors may influence their success ? Given the characteristics of their market : What ‘product’ should they offer ? Business Planning Toolkit Overview

  5. How to offer it to their customers ? How will the market develop in future ? Practical details of how to implement plan : How to contract services ? Fund raise ? Keep operations running smoothly ? What does organisation look like in terms of people ? What people & skills are needed to realise the plan ? Now ? In the future ? Business Planning Toolkit Overview ctd.

  6. What risks are there to achieving plan ? How can they be managed ? What financial resources are needed to achieve plan ? Where will they come from ? How will out goings be managed ? Now ? In future ? Business Planning Toolkit Overview ctd.

  7. Feedback from Pilot Project to date

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