Business Development Service (BDS)

The Business Development Service provides Skills Trainings to both UPLIFT partners and non-partners.

Skills Training is a business-oriented training that aims to equip attendees with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities in developing a certain product that can eventually be an income generating activity. These are technologies that are demonstrated by knowledgeable and experienced Trainers and practiced by participants. These trainings encourage partners to develop new products as an alternative business and/or start a totally new business.

Skills Trainings aim to:

• Give the participants further experience, knowledge, and skills on entrepreneurship specifically in prouction businesses;
• Demonstrate and inform the participants on proper production methods and budgeting;
• Give the participants the opportunity to use and apply simple technologies for their businesses.

Skills Trainings covering basic topics are held in UPLIFT Branches every month. Skills Training Packages, which feature a more advanced production business, are held in the Calma and Bulazon Head Offices every quarter of the year.

Skills Training Topics

These are some of the many Skills Training topics:

Meat Processing:
-Tocino (cured meat)
-Longanisa (Native sausage)
-Siomai/Siopao Making (Chinese delicacies)
-Lumpia Shanghai (Chinese rolls)
-Special Embotido (Native meatloaf)
-Ham
-Banana Burger Patties
-Fish and Seafoods Processing

Delicacies/Desserts:
-Sandwich Spreads
-Ice Cream Making
-Coconut Food Products
-Condiments (vinegar, soy/fish sauce)
-Pastry/Baking
-Candies/Chips
-Native Delicacies
-Desserts

Handmade Products/Services:
-Soap Making
-Candle Making
-Cosmetology
-Reflexology
-Flower Arrangement

Values in Skills Training

Aside from basic production processes, Skills Training also aims to teach essential entrepreneurial values.

• They are given budgeting tips and methods which are essential in entrepreneurship;
• The added advantages of proper packaging and presentation are stressed;
• Above all, the participants are taught the importance of cleanliness and health.