Technical Services
Making Cents provides comprehensive services in enterprise, entrepreneurship, livelihoods, small business and agribusiness development programming. Technical services range from initial assessment, design and implementation to monitoring and evaluation. Our services and products are designed to address the needs of a range of populations that include youth, women, and vulnerable populations and equip them with the vision, confidence, and skills to create and grow their own businesses, and to seek employment in promising growth sectors. Our services include:
- Needs Assessment - At Making Cents we take time to fully understand our clients. Before beginning any work, we assess their available resources, desired outcomes, and environments so that our services and recommendations have long-lasting relevance for, and make an impact on, the people and organizations involved.
- Program Design - Making Cents works with communities and organizations around the world to design and grow programs focused on economic development. Our program design experts leverage their experience as practitioners; maximizing best practices and emerging technologies to create sustainable market-driven and scalable programs.
- Experiential Learning Tools and Curriculum - Making Cents integrates experiential learning methodologies into all our training and educational products. We specialize in creating customized educational tools for diverse learning and development contexts world-wide.
- Training-of-Trainers & Capacity Building - Making Cents understands that good curriculum can only have great impact in the hands of trained and well prepared educators, trainers, and facilitators. We offer a continuum of skills development trainings that improve facilitation and group-based instruction ability, build content-based understanding, and create the confidence and competence necessary to deliver quality demand-driven training.
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact Assessment - Making Cents is committed to helping organizations measure their progress and document the impact of their programmatic efforts. We work with our clients to develop a deep understanding of their monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment needs, and then apply proven methods and tools to help them accomplish their measurement goals.