HONIARA City Council (HCC) will continue to support all stakeholders to make the market safer, more inclusive and provide literacy training for vendors.
That’s according to the Honiara City Council Deputy Clerk Fred Jones who was the guest of honour during the graduation ceremony hosted by UNDP for the Honiara Vendors yesterday at the Saint Barnabas Cathedral Compound.
More than 60 market vendors both male and females were awarded with certificates after completing the trainings offered by UNDP.
“HCC will continue to support the stakeholders to make the market safer more inclusive and non-discriminatory through leadership, communication, organisation and financial literacy training for vendors,” Mr Jones said.
He added that HCC has approved a room for BSP to operate and provide access banking services for the vendors and other users at the market.
HCC will continue to provide an important urban space for thousands of small business people to both urban and rural communities to trade as market vendors.
UNDP is responsible for Outcome 2: Socio-economic security of Market Vendors. Under the Outcome 2, there are two (2) components and they are Continuing Market Business Education (CMBE) and Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Income of Vendor Farmers (IPI-VF).
For the Continuing Market Business Education (CMBE), there are two Rounds of training and they are;
Round 1: Basic Financial Literacy.
· 1.1. Moni Tok (BSP)
· 1.2. Savim Moni. (BSP)
Round 2: Improve Your Market Business.
· 2.1: Produce Presentation. (BSP)
· 2.2. Keeping your records. (BSP)
· 2.3. Pricing your produce. (SBEC)
· 2.4. Introduction to Basic Business. (SBEC)
Bank South Pacific (BSP) is the training facilitator for Round 1.1 to 2.2, while Small Business Enterprise Centre (SBEC) is the provider for Round 2.3 – 2.4.
As already mentioned above, the Certificate Ceremony today is for the CMBE component and the Market Vendors receive 3 different certificates. First Certificate for Round 1.1 – 1.2, Second Certificate for Round 2.1 – 2.2 and the Final Certificate is for Round 2.3 – 2.4.
About 58 females and 5 males received certificates on Thursday.
By LESLEY SANGA
