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Delivering Skills and Opportunity: OHRA’s Entrepreneurship Training Initiative

Orpe Human Rights Advocates (OHRA) presents a comprehensive entrepreneurship training program designed to empower underserved communities, particularly youth, women, refugees, and marginalized populations through a doctrinal approach. This program integrates practical skills, business knowledge, financial literacy, and ethical entrepreneurship principles into a structured curriculum aimed at enabling participants to launch, manage, and scale sustainable businesses. By coupling skills acquisition with mentorship, access to microfinance, and holistic support, the program addresses systemic barriers to economic inclusion while fostering self-reliance, social responsibility, and community development.

 A comprehensive doctrinal framework for delivering entrepreneurship training, based on the activities, courses, and skills.

Urgent Needs and Opportunity for Impact

Millions of individuals across underserved communities face systemic barriers to economic participation, including lack of access to capital, business education, and mentorship. These barriers perpetuate cycles of poverty, unemployment, and social vulnerability. Traditional entrepreneurship programs often fail to provide a comprehensive framework that combines practical skills, ethical guidance, and financial access. There is an urgent need for a doctrinally grounded program that equips participants not only with entrepreneurial know-how but also with the tools to navigate financial, legal, and social challenges in a sustainable manner. OHRA’s entrepreneurship training seeks to fill this gap by providing a holistic, rights-based, and skills-driven approach to economic empowerment.

Program Goals:

  1. Empower underserved individuals with practical entrepreneurial skills that enable them to start and manage sustainable businesses.

  2. Promote financial literacy and access to capital, including microfinance and seed funding opportunities.

  3. Foster ethical and socially responsible entrepreneurship grounded in human rights and community development principles.

  4. Strengthen community resilience through entrepreneurship-driven economic opportunities.

  5. Build a replicable and scalable doctrinal framework for entrepreneurship training across diverse populations and regions.

Program Objectives:

  1. Deliver structured courses covering business planning, marketing, financial management, legal compliance, and innovation.

  2. Provide hands-on mentorship and coaching tailored to the participant’s business ideas and challenges.

  3. Facilitate access to seed funding, microloans, and investment opportunities for participants.

  4. Conduct workshops and seminars on ethical entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable business practices.

  5. Monitor and evaluate program outcomes to measure participants’ business growth, financial independence, and social impact.

Our Strategy for Transformation

If underserved individuals are equipped with practical entrepreneurial skills, financial literacy, mentorship, and access to capital, then they will be able to start and sustain businesses, generate income, and contribute positively to their communities. This leads to increased economic self-reliance, improved social inclusion, and reduced vulnerability among marginalized populations. OHRA’s doctrinal framework ensures that entrepreneurship is not only a tool for economic gain but also a means to promote ethical, sustainable, and socially responsible business practices, thereby creating a multiplier effect that strengthens communities and fosters systemic transformation.

 A comprehensive doctrinal framework for delivering entrepreneurship training, based on the activities, courses, and skills.
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Ten Doctrinal Framework Guiding OHRA Entrepreneurship Training Activities

1. Doctrine of Skill Empowerment

  • Principle: Equip participants with practical skills necessary to launch, manage, and scale businesses.

  • Application: Focus on technical skills in business planning, innovation, digital literacy, and leadership.

  • Goal: Transform knowledge into actionable entrepreneurial competencies.

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4. Doctrine of Ethical Business Practice

  • Principle: Promote ethical, transparent, and socially responsible business practices.

  • Application: Embed principles of corporate governance, accountability, and ethical marketing within the training.

  • Goal: Instill values that ensure sustainable, responsible entrepreneurship.

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7. Doctrine of Empowerment and Inclusivity

  • Principle: Promote entrepreneurship as a vehicle for economic inclusion and empowerment.

  • Application: Prioritize marginalized populations: youth, women, refugees, and underserved communities.

  • Goal: Reduce inequality and build sustainable, inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems.

10. Doctrine of Community and Network Building

  • Principle: Facilitate collaboration, networking, and peer support.

  • Application: Organize networking events, entrepreneurial forums, and mentorship programs.

  • Goal: Strengthen community ties and collective growth among entrepreneurs.

2. Doctrine of Strategic Leadership

  • Principle: Foster executive leadership and decision-making capacity in business contexts.

  • Application: Teach participants how to manage five critical business departments: general management, human resources, finance, marketing, and IT.

  • Goal: Ensure holistic understanding of organizational operations and leadership dynamics.

​5. Doctrine of Comprehensive Organizational Management

  • Principle: Train entrepreneurs to understand and manage the interdependence of business functions.

  • Application: Deliver courses and workshops covering the five core departments: general management, human resources, finance, marketing, IT, highlighting their strategic roles.

  • Goal: Equip entrepreneurs with holistic management capabilities that ensure operational efficiency.

8. Doctrine of Evidence-Based Practice

  • Principle: Ground all training programs in tested methodologies, data-driven insights, and best practices.

  • Application: Use case studies, success stories, and impact assessments to inform curriculum.

  • Goal: Ensure that training interventions are effective, measurable, and replicable.

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3. Doctrine of Innovation and Adaptability

  • Principle: Encourage creative thinking, problem-solving, and adaptability in dynamic markets.

  • Application: Integrate innovation workshops, digital skills training, and scenario-based exercises.

  • Goal: Prepare entrepreneurs to identify opportunities, develop unique value propositions, and respond to market changes.

6. Doctrine of Access to Resources and Capital

  • Principle: Ensure participants have the knowledge to secure funding and resources for business growth.

  • Application: Teach financial planning, access to microfinance, investor relations, and grant management.

  • Goal: Remove barriers to entrepreneurship by empowering participants to mobilize resources effectively.

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9. Doctrine of Lifelong Learning

  • Principle: Encourage continuous learning, upskilling, and adaptability.

  • Application: Include ongoing mentorship, follow-up workshops, and access to learning platforms.

  • Goal: Foster resilience and continuous entrepreneurial growth beyond initial training.

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A course catalog structured around the 10 doctrines, each with an outline and description that states objectives, technical skills, and delivery methods.

1. Doctrine of Skill Empowerment

Doctrine Link: Skill Empowerment

  • Objective: Equip participants with the technical and practical skills required to create, manage, and scale entrepreneurial ventures.

  • Technical Skills: Business planning, financial literacy, innovation basics, digital tools for entrepreneurs, leadership fundamentals.

  • Functions: Develop business models, write business plans, assess market opportunities.

  • Method of Learning: Hybrid (lectures online, in-person workshops).

4. Doctrine of Ethical Business Practice

Doctrine Link: Ethical Business Practice

  • Objective: Instill values of transparency, accountability, and sustainability in entrepreneurship.

  • Technical Skills: Corporate governance, ethical marketing, compliance, sustainability practices.

  • Functions: Build businesses that operate legally, ethically, and responsibly.

  • Method of Learning: Online modules + in-person ethical case discussions.

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7. Doctrine of Empowerment and Inclusivity

Doctrine Link: Empowerment and Inclusivity

  • Objective: Empower underserved populations to access entrepreneurship as a path to dignity and inclusion.

  • Technical Skills: Inclusive business models, gender-sensitive leadership, community-based entrepreneurship.

  • Functions: Develop enterprises addressing inequality, empower marginalized communities.

  • Method of Learning: In-person community-based workshops + online mentorship.

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10. Doctrine of Community and Network Building

Doctrine Link: Community and Network Building

  • Objective: Build strong entrepreneurial networks that foster collaboration, peer learning, and growth.

  • Technical Skills: Networking strategies, partnership building, collaboration platforms.

  • Functions: Expand entrepreneurial ecosystems, strengthen partnerships, access markets through networks.

  • Method of Learning: In-person networking events + online community forums.

2. Doctrine of Strategic Leadership

Doctrine Link: Strategic Leadership

  • Objective: Build leadership and executive decision-making skills to manage and grow businesses.

  • Technical Skills: Leadership styles, organizational decision-making, stakeholder management, executive communication.

  • Functions: Lead teams, oversee general management, HR, finance, marketing, and IT operations.

  • Method of Learning: In-person executive workshops + online case studies.

​5. Doctrine of Comprehensive Organizational Management

Doctrine Link: Comprehensive Organizational Management

  • Objective: Provide a full understanding of the interdependence between key business functions.

  • Technical Skills: Departmental management (general administration, HR, finance, marketing, IT).

  • Functions: Integrate departmental strategies for efficiency and growth.

  • Method of Learning: In-person simulations + online department-focused courses.

8. Doctrine of Evidence-Based Practice

Doctrine Link: Evidence-Based Practice

  • Objective: Train entrepreneurs to use data, research, and case studies to guide business decisions.

  • Technical Skills: Data-driven decision-making, monitoring and evaluation, impact measurement.

  • Functions: Apply research to validate business strategies, measure outcomes, replicate success.

  • Method of Learning: Online analytics training + in-person case-study labs.

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3. Doctrine of Innovation and Adaptability

Doctrine Link: Innovation and Adaptability

  • Objective: Cultivate entrepreneurial creativity, resilience, and problem-solving capacity.

  • Technical Skills: Design thinking, innovative product development, digital adaptation, market trend analysis.

  • Functions: Develop innovative ideas, pivot businesses to market demands, integrate digital solutions.

  • Method of Learning: Hybrid (innovation labs in-person, online innovation toolkits).

6. Doctrine of Access to Resources and Capital

Doctrine Link: Access to Resources and Capital

  • Objective: Teach entrepreneurs how to access, manage, and sustain financial resources.

  • Technical Skills: Financial planning, microfinance, grant writing, investor pitching, credit management.

  • Functions: Secure funding, manage financial sustainability, engage investors.

  • Method of Learning: Hybrid (pitching workshops in-person, online financial literacy tools)

9. Doctrine of Lifelong Learning

Doctrine Link: Lifelong Learning

  • Objective: Encourage continuous professional and entrepreneurial development.

  • Technical Skills: Continuous upskilling, professional adaptability, mentorship engagement, self-assessment.

  • Functions: Integrate ongoing learning into entrepreneurial practice.

  • Method of Learning: Online continuous learning platform + periodic in-person refresher workshops.

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