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Sectors

Crafts and local production trades

Carpentry, metalwork, tailoring, mechanics, local food production: Guinean crafts produce and employ. What makes them grow is management, costing and route to market.

What the sector covers

Carpentry, metalwork, tailoring, mechanics, local food production: Guinean crafts produce and employ. What makes them grow is management, costing and route to market.

  • Production and made-to-order work
  • Costing a quote and calculating unit cost
  • Managing supplies and the workshop
  • Workstation safety and equipment upkeep
  • Prospecting, selling and retaining customers

The roles that drive it

Knowing how to cost a quote transforms a business overnight: it is the skill that turns craftsmanship into stable income.

Each corresponds to a professional qualification in the filed catalogue.

named roles
4
activities listed
5
linked programmes
4
  • SME management assistant
  • Marketing assistant and community manager
  • Industrial stores and stock manager
  • Health, safety and environment officer

The programmes that prepare for it

Every row is read from the official catalogue: duration, taught hours and the amount in Guinean francs are those that bind you, and they change here the day they change there. The total credits represented by these programmes is 248.

ProgrammeDurationTaught hoursFees
Entrepreneurship18 months600 h4 400 000 GNF per year
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level3 years1 800 h4 800 000 GNF per year
Advanced Excel2 months40 h900 000 GNF in total
Digital Marketing Essentials2 months40 h1 100 000 GNF in total

What the catalogue brings to bear

This field draws on 106 catalogue modules across 3 areas. The volumes below come from the repository and are recounted at every publication.

Entrepreneurship
32 (30 %)
Finance
47 (44 %)
Marketing
27 (25 %)
Total: 106 modules
AreaModulesOf which open from the start
Entrepreneurship3211
Finance474
Marketing278

Before you decide

Do I need to already have a workshop?

The track serves equally to structure an existing business and to prepare a new one: business model and costing apply in both cases.

Is unit cost calculation taught?

Yes, it is central: materials, time, overheads, margin — and the tool to keep it up to date without spending your evenings on it.

How do I train while working in the workshop?

Short formats can be followed in the evening or at weekends, at hours you choose, from a phone as well as a computer.

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