BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICE ASSESSMENT REPORT

training to local citizens under the request of Altai Soyon project. In
terms of funding, the college is funded 90% by the MoECS while the
remaining 10% is paid by the tuition from undergraduate degree and
the income from the college’s side business of planting and animal
husbandry.
Training center
2. Sain Tus NGO
Established in 2003, the NGO initially provided rural women targeted
activities under GDS project for 2003-2005 in Hovd and Bayan-Ulgii
aimags. Effective from 2005, the NGO started its own independent
services for local businesses. Currently the NGO employs 2 full- time
and 6 part time trainers providing training series in sewing, bakery
and dairy processing. In some cases, the NGO also provides training
on business planning, proposal development and institutional
strategic planning. For the time being, the NGO is providing training
for government officials under the government order (labor and
welfare agency, soum governments), paid training and other training
for the projects. Some trainings provided by projects are conducted
on cost funding basis. Training series for Labor and Welfare Agency
provides voucher training on proposal development and competitor’s
survey for Central region aimags. Those who were not able to attend
the training provided by Labor and Welfare office, are subject to 10
000 MNT fee. According to NGO, there is growing trend of training
needs on more details like collar work and pocket sewing techniques
(sewing) and cake making recipes (bakery) etc. All training series are
accompanied by dedicated hour of economic calculations on the
business subjects.
The NGO also works closely with government agencies including the
local government, professional inspection, employment, social
security/insurance and taxation to link its trainings to the government
services. Examples include that inspectors may show up during the
training to provide some info i.e. for food processing training they
come and get attendees tested for hygiene etc. Aside from this, the
trainees are enabled to visit some other businesses as the field trip
and practice.
NGO collaborates with GTZ for its own capacity building and Russian
Women’s Federation with other various issues. GTZ provides some
capacity building training and re-training as well as it contributes some
amount for management costs of NGO. Currently the NGO runs
sustainable and fund its activities from all the operations.
3. Center for supporting youth competitiveness NGO
The NGO was founded in 2005 and started its official operation
effective from November 2006 targeted on protecting the rights of
youth and increasing their competitiveness. The center currently runs
in two major areas; IT and skills training. Coupled with its two full time
employees, the center also hires Ulaangom college lectures when
they need additional work force.