Message-ID: <3338CD60@msm.cgnet.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 08:13:00 -0800 From: Lisbeth Levey <mailto:L.LEVEY@FORDFOUND.ORG> Subject: computer-mediated training projects To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
To Devel-l members:This is my first message to Devel-L, so perhaps I'd better introduce myself first. My name is Liz Levey. I've just moved to Nairobi where I have a two-year consultancy with the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. Basically, my job is to work with grantees and program officers in Eastern and Southern Africa on issues pertaining to connectivity and information access/dissemination. Grantees run the gamut--from academic or research institutions to community-based organizations. Before coming to Nairobi, I worked on similar issues for the AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Program.
One of the Ford grantees is K-REP, the Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme, a specialized informal sector development institution serving micro and small enterprises in the rural and urban areas of Kenya. K-REP has been carrying out training programs since 1987. It is now planning to develop interactive computer-mediated training modules as part of a pilot project. Many of the entrepreneurs with which K-REP collaborates have low levels of schooling.
I'd be very much interested in knowing if anyone on the List knows of similar projects in other developing countries, not necessarily in Africa.
Also, I've begun to do some Web searching on microfinance and microenterprises. I've found a few sites--the USAID Microenterprise Innovation Project, the World Bank Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, VITA, and the Grameen Bank. Is there anything that I've missed?
Thanks for your help.
Liz Levey mailto:l.levey@fordfound.org