Sus-Afric Institute Building Skills for Career Excellence

A comprehensive capacity strengthening program for Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) in governance structures, enhanced project development, and strengthened financial management systems. This builds trust with partners and donors, significantly increasing their access to grants.

This program runs for one year, the partners take an assessment, to enroll in the program and are supported to strengthen their institutions. 

The program will run one hour per day online  trainings and capacity building. The following topics are covered on different days 

1. Institutional governance, setting up the board, and organization internal controls 
2.  Positioning your organization
3. Branding, communication strategy and digital presence 
4. Strategic planning and business development / resource mobilization 
5. Project implementation, monitoring, evaluation and documentation 
6. Financial management, budget control and grants management 
7. Donors and partnership Development
8. Preparing for donors and partner visits
9. Developing a resource mobilization strategy
10. Communication for resource mobilization 

A product development support for manufacturing companies in Africa to improve the quality of products produced, ensure growth and expansion through product re-engineering, innovation and development of new product lines maintaining competitive and comparative advantage in business strategies.

we provide consistent and reliable pathway for coaching and mentorship for research and development, providing companies with tools to support them conduct various types of research 

1. Market Research - helps enterprises in evaluating market size, trends, competitive landscape, and customer demographics within a specific market. It helps assess whether the product has a chance of success, identifies opportunities, and informs enterprises’ product and marketing strategies.

2. Consumer Study - Supports enterprises to understand customer needs, preferences, behaviors, and experiences. This allows enterprises to design products that meet customer expectations and solve problems, increasing the likelihood of market acceptance.

3. Customer Satisfaction Study - provides tools for enterprises to measure  how users interact with the product to ensure it is user-friendly and meets real user needs. The study gathers insights on behaviors, motivations, and pain points to improve user experience and product usability.

4. Product Testing - guides enterprises in testing the prototype in the market to gather feedback, validate ideas, and minimize risks by aligning product development with user needs and business goals before full-scale development.

5. Pricing Research - Helps businesses set optimal prices by analyzing market demand, competition, and customer willingness to pay. It identifies a price threshold that maximizes revenue while meeting market expectations.

6. Competitor Analysis - supports enterprises in evaluating key competing brands, their strengths and weaknesses, and how M/SMEs can develop strategies to counter the competition.

7. Demand Study - Helps enterprises determine willingness to pay, ability to pay and  the estimated sales of a product or service at a specific price. This helps in product development, business planning, and resource allocation, informing market size and share.

8. Supply Chain Study - Helps enterprises identify key market players and service providers that M/SMEs need to collaborate with to penetrate and expand in the market. It identifies barriers and partners in the supply chain.

9. Value Chain Analysis - Supports  agricultural businesses by analyzing systemic factors from production to value addition and marketing. It identifies key players, major constraints, and ways to overcome them.

10. Feasibility Study - Supports non profit organization in evaluating the likelihood of product success by assessing ROI, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and resources needed. It helps determine whether the product is viable for business success.

A comprehensive SMEs business competitiveness coaching package improving  sales growth, revenue, profit and loss, cost per sale, numb​​er of new customers, full cost recovery model, return on assets, client portfolio, market share and customer satisfaction​​.   

The Training and coaching covers Product and the business model design, Organization Capacity Strengthening (OCS) MMSEs investor Readi​​ness (MSEs-IRs) Risks and Mitigation Measures

Product and the business model: This will be coached based on the lean canvas and the business model canvas benchmarking to identify current products they offer, who they target, how much they charge for services, and their viability. Their ability to continuously develop the product, ability to market the product, ability to balance their costs and revenues, ability to maintain relationships with partners and other clients.

Organization Capacity Strengthening (OCS): Focuses on the ability to run a business to profitability. This session reflects the management structure, Human resource skills available, the Marketing strategies, financial management strategies, cost management, operations efficiency and availability of systems to support operations.

MMSEs investor Readiness (MSEs-IRs):  Focus on the ability of the SMEs to develop more products, identify potential investors / sources of capital, ability to pitch, ability to mobilize resources, ability to develop contracts and terms of engagement, ability to negotiate, to attract capital.

Risks and Mitigation Measures:  Focuses on ability to identify risks, handle unforeseen challenges, ability to innovate, re-invent and survive the business environment. This is measured against a risk register.

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Problem-solving public, private sector tech Products Design, development, piloting and scaling

Involves a holistic approach to technology and product development by incorporating human-centered design and systems thinking. It emphasizes on understanding user needs through iterative design, prototyping, and problem-solving to create innovative and sustainable solutions. We help enterprises in Ideation (Idea Generation): Brainstorming new product concepts based on customer needs and market research Idea screening, concept development and testing, developing a detailed product concept and testing it with potential users. We conduct business analysis, financial evaluation, including costs, projected sales, and profit potential.

Key support services

1. Product Development & Prototyping:  SUS-AFRIC provides coaching to enterprises throughout their journey in Building a working version or prototype, with engineers designing the actual product.

2. Business model design- SUS-AFRIC advises enterprises on how to improve their business model to achieve competitive advantage. 

3. Business plan development- SUS-AFRIC supports enterprises to come up with viable business plans, ensuring profitability and viability. 

4. Marketing strategy development. SUS-AFRIC supports enterprises to come up with clear winning marketing strategies for their products. Developing customer targeting, supply chains and communication channels. 

5. Business plan development- Based on demand, studies, SUS-AFRIC supports enterprises to come up with viable business plans  

6. Testing and Validation: User centric testing or pilot programs to ensure the product functions properly and meets user needs.

7. Product branding and packaging- Based o consumer study, SUS-AFRIC supports enterprises on how to package and brand products.

8. Commercialization (Launch):  SUS-AFRIC supports enterprises in releasing the product to the market, along with marketing, distribution, and support strategies.

Prepares companies to put in place  Environmental protection, Labor & human rights compliance,  Governance & ethics, Traceability + data audit trail.  We help SMEs and growth-ready companies build ESG systems that are credible, affordable, and aligned to trade + finance expectations. This program will prepare organizations for the following. 

• Labor & human rights compliance -Revise organization policies to incorporate human rights and labour laws within a country and based on international standards, how employees and members of the public are able to express themselves through established grievance mechanisms, supplier codes.

• Environmental performance-Support implementation of the principles of protecting the environment, saving energy, waste management, water usage management, emissions footprints

• Governance & ethics – Support establishment of internal controls, polices in places on anti-corruption, how the board of directors provides oversight and accountability

• Traceability + data audit trail – support organizations  in putting in place feedback and grievance mechanisms for generation of evidence on ESG compliance, supplier mapping, incident reporting, and internal controls

  We offer on the job staff training, graduate coaching, mentorship, placement. Request for customized Work Integrated Learning Solutions (WILSONS) for your organizatio