With the labor force increasing by over 400,000 each year, Every country has an increasing need to generate employment opportunities for its new labor market entrants, along with those individuals who are already unemployed or underemployed. 
Promoting entrepreneurship could help spur job growth and increase the demand for skilled workers. Therefore it is important to train the "entrepreneur enablers" to effectively support young people to implement business start-ups and support small enterprises to grow. 
Recent research shows that the majority of jobs in the world are provided by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), and that in low-income countries this share is almost 80%. However, these entrepreneurs often face a number of challenges that prevent them from reaching their potential: Strengthening markets for business development services (BDS) is increasingly viewed as a key strategy for enabling small enterprises to obtain the business services they need and want in a sustainable manner. 
The International Labour Office (ILO) has designed and tested responses to these challenges. Programs like the ILO's Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) have demonstrated promising results in addressing both the demand and supply of business services for small enterprises. Since its inception, the SIYB package has been used in over 100 countries and has reached more than 23.3 million end-beneficiaries and created more than 10 million jobs in the last ten years. Today, the program is one of the largest of its kind, with a network of over 50,000 SIYB trainers worldwide. 
SIYB - Start and Improve Your Business is one of the largest global business management training programs. 
It helps small-scale entrepreneurs to start and grow their business, as a strategy to create more and better employment for women and men. 
Participants completing the two-week course "Start and Improve Your Business Training of Trainers course" and completely the Training Cycle and conducting "Start and Improve Your Business Training of Entrepreneurs course" will be as SIYB Certified International Trainer. This ToT course is the first step in obtaining the certification as SIYB trainers. It will be facilitated by SIYB Master Trainers and will introduce participants to both the technical content of the relevant SIYB package and to adult learning methodologies. 
Participants who have attended the ToT and conduct their part in organizing and facilitating a Training of Entrepreneurs (ToE), will be certified as ILO SIYB trainers and have the credentials to offer SIYB training to potential entrepreneurs and SMEs. 
SIYB trainers play a key role in SIYB implementation as they are responsible for training entrepreneurs - starting from understanding their training needs to post-training follow-up support provision. 
The objective of this workshop is to enable SIYB training providers to develop long-term business models that will allow them to function independently financially while still maintaining service quality standards that facilitate entrepreneurial development. The course will enable the participants to:
• Get a detailed understanding of the steps in introducing SIYB. 
• Understand the key differences in target groups and learning objectives of SIYB's training packages 
• Identify different strategies for marketing the services for specific target groups. 
• Be aware of the best practices in managing the SIYB program, including the monitoring and evaluation tools available at different levels of the SIYB training system. 

Also after certification, the participants will receive their account on SIYB Gateway and will be reachable to all organizations across the world. 

1. Learning objectives: 
• Explore future sustainability strategies at the provider level and at the national level 
• Develop new business models for the financial viability of BDS providers 

2. Target audience 
The training of trainers has been designed for private sector consultants, the staff of Employer organizations, and staff of vocational training institutes and teachers of Universities. The ToT is addressed for: 

• Any country national 
• Participants fully committed to attending and implementing the SIYB training of entrepreneurs.
• Participants committed to supporting the implementation of the SIYB program in their countries as SIYB trainers. 
• Participants proficient in English.
• Participants with experience as a business consultant providing services to SMEs and entrepreneurs. 
• Participants with experience as a trainer of adults and youth using participatory methodologies. 
• Participants with good communication skills.