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In his Introduction Professor Kenneth King sets the stage by outlining the larger forces that are shaping the growing interest in self-employment, and makes the case for practical responses that are grounded in the experiences of informal sector businesspeople.
Chapter I argues for learning from traditional training systems and identifies aspects of the "crisis of vocational training" that influence the effectiveness of self-employment training programmes. Chapter I uses this combined perspective as the basis for evolving a Planning and Assessment Framework for designing, managing and evaluating vocational training for self-employment programmes.
Chapter II comprises case studies which examine the working practices of three successful vocational training for self-employment programmes: The Calcutta Youth Self-Employment Centre (CYSEC); the Refugee Enterprise Development Project (REDP), which operated in Somaliland from 1984 - 1987; and the Enterprise-Based Training Programme of Egypt's Coptic Evangelical Organisation for Social Services (CEOSS). Chapter II includes a section summarising the case studies, to facilitate the use of the case studies as training material.
Chapter III offers a brief overview of pertinent best practice in small enterprise development, and explores a number of the design issues which influence the success of vocational training for self-employment programmes.
Chapter IV is a response to Professor King's call for practical solutions to pressing problems. This concluding chapter opens with a summary of the basic characteristics of successful vocational training for self-employment programmes, and goes on to draw together the evidence of the earlier chapters into a package of practical guidelines for those directly involved in designing, managing and evaluating vocational training for self-employment programmes.
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