
GYBI is intended for people who would like to start a business, and who, through the training, develop a concrete business idea ready for implementation.
A standard GYBI training course takes two to three days of training. After the training, if the potential entrepreneurs require follow-up support to implement their business idea and to start their own business, they can register for a Start Your Business (SYB) training course. The GYBI trainer, who is familiar with the local context, evaluates client satisfaction with the training received during and after the service delivery process and feeds that impact data back into the design of future training courses to continuously improve the offering.
The objective of GYBI training is to enable potential entrepreneurs to find out whether they are the right person to start a business and to develop a feasible business idea.
By the end of the training course, these potential entrepreneurs will have a concrete and feasible business idea. The business idea will be the starting point for developing a business plan.


GYBI training is customized for potential entrepreneurs who want to start micro or small scale businesses. To benefit fully from GYBI training, the potential entrepreneurs should be able to read, write, and make basic calculations.
GYBI training is equally suitable for men and women in rural and urban areas, both young and old, taking into account their potentials and needs.
GYBI training is designed to assist potential entrepreneurs to, among others:
- Conduct an entrepreneurial self assessment and provide guidance to how entrepreneurial characteristics can be improved
- Generate business ideas. Participants are guided in how to analyze their own skills and knowledge and how to exploit this knowledge and skills to set up a business
- Analyse and select the most feasible business idea. Screening of the feasibility of each business idea and identification o the idea that is most attractive, that has least negative impact on the environment and is best suited to personal situations.


The GYBI manual is used during the training and serves the potential entrepreneurs as a source of reference after the course. It explains step by step the process to follow to come up with potential business ideas and select the most feasible ones. Explanations are given in easy-to-understand language and plenty of illustrations are used to explain concepts and solutions as clearly as possible.
Relevant examples and exercises are important features in the manual, enabling the reader to apply immediately the theory of learning.
Experience shows that between 70-95% of GYBI clients have developed a feasible business idea when they finish the GYBI training. The impact of GYBI other than business idea generation is merely on attitudinal changes and business thinking.
For business start-up and job creation, GYBI should be combined with the Start Your Business package.
