CURRICULUM VITAE
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
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Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
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EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
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Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
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Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
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Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
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GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
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Overall in Albania
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IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
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Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
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EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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Feb 2008
Feb 2010
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Vlore region
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World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
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Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
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World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
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Albania ( Southern )
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USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
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Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
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USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
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GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
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Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
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SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
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Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
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Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
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Local Economics Expert
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U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
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South-West of Albania
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Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
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EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
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International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
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March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
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May 2003
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Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
|
Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
|
EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
|
Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
|
Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
|
Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
|
Overall in Albania
|
CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
|
Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
|
GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
|
Overall in Albania
|
IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
|
Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
|
EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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Feb 2008
Feb 2010
|
Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
|
Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
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Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
|
GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
|
Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
|
SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
|
Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
|
Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
|
Local Economics Expert
|
U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
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South-West of Albania
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Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
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International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
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March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
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May 2003
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Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
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Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
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EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
|
Overall in Albania
|
Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
|
Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
|
Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
|
Overall in Albania
|
CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
|
Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
|
GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
|
|
March 2010
July 2011
|
Overall in Albania
|
IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
|
Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
|
EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
|
|
Feb 2008
Feb 2010
|
Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
|
Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
|
June 2002
Feb 2007
|
Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
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GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
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Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
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SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
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Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
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Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
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Local Economics Expert
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U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
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South-West of Albania
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Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
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International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
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March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
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May 2003
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Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
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Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
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EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
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Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
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Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
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Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
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GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
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Overall in Albania
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IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
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Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
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EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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Feb 2008
Feb 2010
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Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
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Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
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World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
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Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
|
Berati Region
|
GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
|
Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
|
SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
|
Sept 2013
Dec 2013
|
Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
|
Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
|
Local Economics Expert
|
U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
|
Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
|
South-West of Albania
|
Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
|
Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
|
Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
|
Sept 14
24 , 2016
|
Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
|
April 2015
|
Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
|
Jun 2012
Nov 2012
|
IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
|
May 2014
|
Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
|
Feb 2011
|
Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
|
May 2010
|
International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
|
March 2010
|
Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
|
March 2003
- Aug 2004
|
Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
|
May 2003
|
Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
|
June 2003
|
Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
|
July 2003
|
Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
|
February 2002
July 2002
|
Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
|
Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
|
Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
|
Oct 1996- Nov 1998
|
Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
|
Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
|
Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
|
Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
|
Speaking
|
Writing
|
Albanian
|
mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
|
Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
|
Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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|
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|
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
|
Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
|
Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
|
EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
|
|
Dec 2016 Nov 2018
|
Overall in Albania
|
Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
|
Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
|
Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
|
|
March 2018 to present
|
Overall in Albania
|
CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
|
Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
|
GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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|
March 2010
July 2011
|
Overall in Albania
|
IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
|
Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
|
EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
|
|
Feb 2008
Feb 2010
|
Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
|
Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
|
June 2002
Feb 2007
|
Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
|
July 2016
July 2017
|
Berati Region
|
GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
|
Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
|
SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
|
Sept 2013
Dec 2013
|
Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
|
Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
|
Local Economics Expert
|
U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
|
Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
|
South-West of Albania
|
Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
|
Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
|
Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
|
Sept 14
24 , 2016
|
Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
|
April 2015
|
Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
|
Jun 2012
Nov 2012
|
IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
|
May 2014
|
Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
|
Feb 2011
|
Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
|
May 2010
|
International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
|
March 2010
|
Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
|
March 2003
- Aug 2004
|
Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
|
May 2003
|
Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
|
June 2003
|
Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
|
July 2003
|
Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
|
February 2002
July 2002
|
Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
|
Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
|
Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
|
Oct 1996- Nov 1998
|
Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
|
December 1997
|
Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
|
Nov- January 1996
|
“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
|
June 1987
|
Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
|
Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
|
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
|
Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
|
BSc (Economics)
|
ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
|
Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
|
USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
|
Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
|
7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
|
Reading
|
Speaking
|
Writing
|
Albanian
|
mother tongue
|
English
|
2
|
2
|
3
|
Italian
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
|
Date from – to
|
Overall in Albania and region
|
May 2014 to present
|
Southern Albania
|
Oct 1998- May 2014
|
South West Albania
|
Oct 1993- May 1998
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14. Professional experience:
Date
|
Location
|
Company/Reference
|
Position
|
Description
|
|
OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
|
Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
|
Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
|
Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
|
EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
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Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
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Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
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Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
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GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
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Overall in Albania
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IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
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Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
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EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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Feb 2008
Feb 2010
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Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
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Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
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World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
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Albania ( Southern )
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USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
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Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
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USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
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GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
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Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
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SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
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Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
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Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
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Local Economics Expert
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U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
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South-West of Albania
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Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
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EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
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International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
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March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
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May 2003
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Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
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Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
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EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
|
Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
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Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
|
Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
|
GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
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Overall in Albania
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IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
|
Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
|
EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
|
|
Feb 2008
Feb 2010
|
Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
|
Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
|
June 2002
Feb 2007
|
Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
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GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
|
Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
|
SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
|
Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
|
Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
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Local Economics Expert
|
U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
|
South-West of Albania
|
Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
|
International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
|
March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
|
May 2003
|
Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
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Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
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EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
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Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
|
Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
|
Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
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GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
|
Overall in Albania
|
IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
|
Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
|
EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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|
Feb 2008
Feb 2010
|
Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
|
Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
|
Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
|
July 2016
July 2017
|
Berati Region
|
GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
|
Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
|
SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
|
Sept 2013
Dec 2013
|
Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
|
Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
|
Local Economics Expert
|
U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
|
Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
|
South-West of Albania
|
Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
|
Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
|
Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
|
Sept 14
24 , 2016
|
Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
|
April 2015
|
Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
|
Jun 2012
Nov 2012
|
IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
|
May 2014
|
Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
|
Feb 2011
|
Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
|
May 2010
|
International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
|
March 2010
|
Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
|
March 2003
- Aug 2004
|
Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
|
May 2003
|
Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
|
June 2003
|
Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
|
Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
|
February 2002
July 2002
|
Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
|
Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
|
Oct 1996- Nov 1998
|
Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
|
December 1997
|
Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
|
Nov- January 1996
|
“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
|
June 1987
|
Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
|
Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
|
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
|
Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
|
BSc (Economics)
|
ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
|
7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
|
Speaking
|
Writing
|
Albanian
|
mother tongue
|
English
|
2
|
2
|
3
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Italian
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
|
Date from – to
|
Overall in Albania and region
|
May 2014 to present
|
Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
|
South West Albania
|
Oct 1993- May 1998
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|
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|
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|
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
|
Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
|
Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
|
EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
|
|
Dec 2016 Nov 2018
|
Overall in Albania
|
Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
|
Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
|
Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
|
|
March 2018 to present
|
Overall in Albania
|
CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
|
Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
|
GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
|
|
March 2010
July 2011
|
Overall in Albania
|
IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
|
Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
|
EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
|
|
Feb 2008
Feb 2010
|
Vlore region
|
World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
|
Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
|
June 2002
Feb 2007
|
Albania ( Southern )
|
USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
|
Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
|
USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
|
July 2016
July 2017
|
Berati Region
|
GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
|
Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
|
SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
|
Sept 2013
Dec 2013
|
Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
|
Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
|
Local Economics Expert
|
U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
|
Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
|
South-West of Albania
|
Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
|
Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
|
EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
|
Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
|
Sept 14
24 , 2016
|
Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
|
April 2015
|
Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
|
Jun 2012
Nov 2012
|
IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
|
May 2014
|
Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
|
Feb 2011
|
Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
|
May 2010
|
International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
|
March 2010
|
Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
|
March 2003
- Aug 2004
|
Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
|
May 2003
|
Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
|
June 2003
|
Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
|
July 2003
|
Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
|
February 2002
July 2002
|
Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
|
Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
|
Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
|
Oct 1996- Nov 1998
|
Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
|
December 1997
|
Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
|
Nov- January 1996
|
“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
|
June 1987
|
Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
|
Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
|
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
|
Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
|
BSc (Economics)
|
ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
|
Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
|
USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
|
Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
|
7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
|
Reading
|
Speaking
|
Writing
|
Albanian
|
mother tongue
|
English
|
2
|
2
|
3
|
Italian
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
|
Date from – to
|
Overall in Albania and region
|
May 2014 to present
|
Southern Albania
|
Oct 1998- May 2014
|
South West Albania
|
Oct 1993- May 1998
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14. Professional experience:
Date
|
Location
|
Company/Reference
|
Position
|
Description
|
|
OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
|
Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
|
Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
t
-
|
Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
|
EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
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Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
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Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
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Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
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GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
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Overall in Albania
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IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
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Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
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EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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Feb 2008
Feb 2010
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Vlore region
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World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
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Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
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World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
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Albania ( Southern )
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USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
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Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
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USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
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GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
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Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
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SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
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Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
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Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
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Local Economics Expert
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U\\
USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
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South-West of Albania
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Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
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EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
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International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
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March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
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May 2003
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Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
· Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
· Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
· Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
· CIVICUS members of the Alliance
· Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
· Member of National Leadership of Women Network
· Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
· Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
· Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
· Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
· Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
· Public Institutions ( tax office )
· Business comunity
· Techincal University
· Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
· Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
· Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
· 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
· Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
· External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
· Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
· Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
· Local government (regional development in economic area);
· National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
· Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
· Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
· Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
· SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
· Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
· Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
· Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
· Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
· Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
· Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
· Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
· Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
· Capacity Building for local government staff ;
· TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
· The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
· Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
· Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
· Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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14. Professional experience:
Date
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Location
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Company/Reference
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Position
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Description
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OctOct 1998 to present
M May 2015 to present
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Overall in Albania
Overall in Albania
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Regional DevelopmenAgency
Foundation (RDAF)
Mrs. Diana Djaloshi
Chairwoman of Board at VRDA
Email [email protected]
EBRD/BAS program
National Programme
Manager EBRD/BAS program
Mr. Neritan Mullai
email;[email protected]
T
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Executive Director
n
P Project Management and
SME Development Expert
(EBRD Funded)
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EC “ PHARE “ project supporting Economic and SME in Albania
Responsible for overall management of the “Regional Development Agency”;
In this framework director is responsible to manage RDA activity in the area of regional and local socio economic and rural development as well as coordinate and manage communication with donor agencies such as: EBRD,USAID, GIZ,UNDP,EU/SMEs project ,WB, ILO, UNOPS, GTZ,ETF etc.:
She has got qualifications as business consultant & trainer in Europe (Italy, Greece, England, Denmark, Ireland, Poland , Balkan ,Germany and USA..
She has qualificitation the field of Local Government, Business Development as , business& trainer consultant .She was qualified by GTZ-Germany in 1995-1996 and possess a master business/ Consultant and trainer diploma by ILO, Turin, Italy 1997-1998;
S she graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Albania
She has got a Master degree in Economic Sciences (Comparative Local Economic Development) at Bologna-Italy
Management consultant specializing in different fields as follows;
· Competitiveness and SME Policy: Provided policy for private sector and public sector and BSPs in region;
· Analyzing private sector and Strategy Planning of Albania Gouverneme in the business development ;
· Capacity buildings for SME , private sector,
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of municipality staff – following the official methodology of the Municipality public administration department
· Providing on-the-job training on the implementation of the Public Consultation
· Coordination and subcontractor to delivery of EU, GIZ,USAID/SBCA MSI, UNDP,WB,.GIZ consultancy and training ,
· SME impact monitoring and evaluation projects , based on EU, USAID indicators,
· Design, monitor, implement and evaluate projects on NGO Institutional Development and Capacity Building .
· Assist local NGOs in counseling, training, information and technical assistance.
· Coordinate with local business community, and foreign organizations to facilitate future business development in the region.
EBRD/BAS ; Consulting and Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen the market position of 12 companies Specific objectives are ; Innovation and competitive include:
· Training on improvement of marketing skills
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Implementation of the Marketing Action Plan
· Expanded market in the south regions of Albania.
· Improved product in food Processing Company in ;
· Promotion and better knowledge of the market.
· Analysis of the existing marketing activity and drafting the new marketing strategy;
· Conduct basic trainings sessions with the appointed marketing person in the company including: Sales; Techniques; Negotiations Skills; Marketing & Sales;
· Market survey; The survey conducted through face to face 250 interviews in businesses ,
· Development the training program and deliver training of the Hotels and guesthouse ;
· Implemented and conducted SMEs training program-,develop a Module for training Program; Coach closely- with Hotels staff,
· Develop the consulting program and deliver the consulting;
· Implement on module” HR Management ”and “Recruitment procedures
- Business planning and modelling;
- Product design and development to meet market demands;
- Branding and marketing evolution;
- Productivity and performance improvement;
- Market research and export promotion;
- Technology transfer and innovation enhancement;
- Improving staff performance through effective human resource management;
- Introducing quality management systems (ISO,HACCP, Global GAP) based on expectations of international clients;
- Introduction of financial tools and instruments tailored to current situation and needs of SMEs;
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Dec 2016 Nov 2018
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Overall in Albania
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Italian –Albania SME
D development program PMU
N Director .Mr Gavril Lasku
[email protected]
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Project Management and
SME Development
Expert
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Italian Albania SME Development program /subcontractor for Expertise Consultant /Training for SMEs; The consultancy project is to strengthen and promotion the market position of company Specific objectives include:
· Enhanced promotion and advertisement of the products;
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
· Improved qualification and productivity of the staff and sellers through training;
· Expanded market in the North regions of Albania
· TOT for SME particularly tourism sector and rural development sector an feasibility studies d
· Assessment of business development and Training Needs Analysis( TNA)
· Business Developing ecosystems
· Human Recourse Managment and Development in company
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March 2018 to present
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Overall in Albania
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CEFE International –Consulting company Inch Germany
Mrs. Marlinde Baerenz-
[email protected]
International coordinator of
GIZ/IDEA project
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Start-up Trainer &Business Planning Expert
(GIZ funded)
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GIZ- IDEA project “IDEA Business Start-up Campaign
Innovative start-ups to your entrepreneurial competences and business skills
· Business training ;
· Basic entrepreneurial training skills
· New entrepreneurs in Albania
· Be an entrepreneur,
· Working in a startup or participating in a start-up program;
· Innovation business
· Finance training &Hunting the Money,
· Business Plan development ;
· Trained 160 young people overall Albania that apply for grant and training as Start up business IDEA competition;
· 16 IDEA coachees support with coaching for elaborate Business Plan
· Improved access to finance for innovative start-ups.
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March 2010
July 2011
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Overall in Albania
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IDI-International Development
Ireland. inch Konrad Nierubiec Tel. 00 353 1 6625555 [email protected]
Team Leader of Project;
Uli Lachenmaier
[email protected]
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Senior SME Development Expert
(EU funded)
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EU : “Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market” project
As SME Consultant as follows;
· Monitoring and evaluation mechanism , with enterprise specific measurable indicators,
designed and implemented, to measure the impact of the National Competitiveness Programme for SMEs;
· Training curriculum (including for training of trainers) for impact assessment (and specific aspects of regulatory and policy impact assessments) as well as public consultation;
· Development of the methodology for the first national "Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
for SMEs in Albania" in a team with international experts;
· Sales and Marketing, Competitiveness for SME´s.
· Business Service Providers, BSPs, Association promotion ,
· Assessment of business development and training needs analysis, trainer/Consultant/coach in Strategic Business Management, Innovation,
· Training workshop for consultants interviewers Pilot TNA survey ,conclusions and lessons learnt
· Selection of 250 SME for TNA survey sample ” TNA carried out in the fields.250 SMEi ndividual TNA records
· Coordination and supervision of the implementation of the TNA field interviews in 250
enterprises: identification of SMEs, mobilization of SMEs and national/regional/local institutions, coordination of the fieldworks (six local consultants as interviewers) all over the country;
· TNA result: data collection, treatment of data, interpretation and substantial contribution to the TNA Report 2010;
· Implementation of formal practical and hands-on training sessions as trainer for Albanian SMEs in "Business Planning and Strategic Management" in Saranda and Vlore cities including mobilization of participating
· Implementation of intensive in-company consultancy for enterprises in the Vlore region
for business planning and strategic management including human resource and financial
management as well as Marketing and Sales
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Feb 2008
Feb 2010
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Vlore region
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World Bank; Project Manager
Mr. Edmond Sheshi
[email protected]
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Project Coordinator
&Trainer
(WB funded)
|
World Bank & Albania National Employment Service; ,
“Creating a Social Services Centre for vulnerable groups” ( Women and Youth in need), realizing needed
infrastructure able to support given social- economic services;
· Raising the opportunities for employment, education and qualification of Young peoples and women in
Need in order to integrate them in normal life.
· Generate Business Idea and discussions were handling, Round Table,
· Educative culture, social –economic Services;
· Provide Centre creation like consultancies, training, education/information;
· Opportunity Employment for Youth and women unemployed through business idea training;
· Capacity building, training of trainers, entrepreneurship development
· Design/develop and delivery of localized Training and develop curricula for Women farmer Promote
· Among other consulting tools, we have developed coaching guides for entrepreneurs and the creation
of Networking groups (Exchange Experience Groups) for SME and micro-enterprise support;
· Creating the Centre with all needed infrastructure in order to have complete possibilities to develop
· Realizing business services for a target group of 200 beneficiaries. From those in training
session has participated 120 woman and 80 Youth
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June 2002
Feb 2007
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Albania ( Southern )
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USAID/SBCA –Chemonics Inch Washington
Chief of Party at SBCA
Jeff Houghton
[email protected]
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Project Director
SBCA/USAID
SME Consultant
(USAID funded)
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USAID: Albania Small Business Credit and Assistance (SBCA) Program Phase 1 (2007-2010):
Vlore RDA has disbursed 25 loans through both funds with a 98% repayment record.
In addition Vlore RDA delivered had been provided training 300 businesses 60% were farmers and
100 received one-on-one counselling;
Phase 2 :( 2010-2012) as subcontractor to SBCA were monitored and evaluated on a project-by-project
basis to measure impact as follows;
· Project improves client competitiveness through , using of innovation technology and best practice;;
· The Standard Format of Business Plan; Client Branding and focus Groups;
· Monitored and evaluated on a project basis to measure impact;;,
· Needs Analyses, Action Plans and Client Profiles;
· Direct technical assistance and training has been provided to more than 500 businesses especially
farmers and food processing industry ;
· Assistance and training to enterprises leads to applying: new technology; competitive and
good management Practices;
· Elaborated Business Planning for companies ;
· Developed a comprehensive database of more than 800 businesses in the agriculture industry,
· SME Consultant assignment in particular working with a team of USAID on a prepared to Feasibility
Study of Energy Park in Vlore
· Development a South and south-west of Albania to increase SME´s Competitiveness in Innovation.
· Administrative and Institutional capacity building to the farmers
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July 2016
July 2017
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Berati Region
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GIZ/SARED project
Ilir Rembeci Director at Tirana
Email; [email protected]
[email protected]
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Capacity Building Trainer/ Expert
(GIZ Funded)
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SARED/GIZ Project: Capacity Building for Farmer in south-west of Albania ;
· Trained farmers and rural women ; Marketing strategy of agriculture
· Trained famers ( 65% women) in Financial Management in Kucova ,
· Rural young people in economic empowerment ,current gender equality,
· Market analyses and value chain analysis, market research,
· Business Planinng eleberation,
· Capacity building for farmers ( small farme) ,
· Elaboration of the social economic study,
· Marketing and Sale and Sales Technique and Negoziation Skills
· Financial Management for Farmers
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Sept 2013
Dec 2013
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Center
Government
( Ministries, Public institution
USAID Projects)
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Social Impact Inc. Washington D.C
G. William Anderson Team Leader, [email protected]
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Local Economics Expert
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USAID and EU /Social Impact consulting company Inc.;
Department of State to European Union Accession Evaluation project
· Review and analyze documents, synthesize desk review findings, and contribute to a Desk Review Findings Report.
· Work with the Team Leader to refine interview questions to fit the Albanian context, and to identify and contact in-country key informants.
· Conduct semi-structured interviews, document reviews, and site visits in collaboration with the Team Leader and Economic Specialist.
· Contribute to data analysis.
· Participate in out-brief meetings with USG posts at the end of fieldwork in Albania.
· Contribute to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· DoS /EUR/ACE, USAID, USDA, and SI feedback, and revisions to the Draft Evaluation Report.
· Develop basic tools for promoting Partnerships in Local Level – cooperation with NGO’s;
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Feb 1993-
Oct 1998
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South-West of Albania
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Lancashire Enterprises plc England
Mr. Jeff Houghton
Former Team Leader
[email protected]
Albanian SME Foundation
Gavril Lasku, Former Director of SME Foundation
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Regional Business Agency(RBA)
RBA Manager
EC Funded)
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EC “Phare” program: SME Development in Albania Established and developed a structure of
Regional Development Agencies (RBA‘s) to support of economic development in Albania;.
· This involved bringing together those government and non-governmental organizations ;
· Delivered seminars on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Created the SME Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Economy;
· Delivered training on business planning, marketing and entrepreneurship;
· Fostering the SME development of the region, by providing high quality level of business knowledge,;
· Consultancy to the business community of the south west of Albania ;
· Working closely with banks and SME-s to develop business plans for accessing loans and expansion
of existing ones;
· Carrying out market research through examining new investment / product / locations prospects;
· Collaborating with different international organization which SME supporting programs ;
· Economic Development and growth of the SME sector;
· Surveying and identifying the possible Joint Venture partners.
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16. Other relevant information (e.g., Publications)
Publications
· Supporting SMEs to Become more Competitive in the EU Market book ‘ Training Needs Analysis for SEM’s “
· (TNA) prepared by EU-SME program author; A. Gomez, Ylldise Brahimaj and Carlo Penco to be held National Conference in Albania July 2012;
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management article: “The growth of SME sector in Albania by Ylldise Brahimaj,- SME Development Expert and Anila Arapi- December 2014;
· Study “The Fisheries Management and Marine Techniques in Albania” by Ylldise Brahimaj Executive director of RDA (Published ISBN 97816098500120) to be held on May 15th and 17th 2012 in Albania;
· “Public and private agriculture extension services in Albania - current situation and future perspectives”, Y.Brahimaj, U, Schmidt. Week Scientific Conference “Challenges of Education and Innovation” to be held on January 13th and 14th 2011 in Roma;
· “Searching for Political Monetary Cycles in Albania”, Y.Brahimaj, J.Houghton and D. Wood International Conference “Economic and Social Challenges and Problems”, University of Economy , Albania 2012;
· “Analysis of Political Business Cycles in Transition Economies with focus on Albania”, 2009, M. Kaitlin, Y.brahimaj, A, Bazini Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary.
17. Qualification - Certificates
January 2018
to present
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Licensed to conduct qualified ; “ CEFE “ Training of Trainer over 100 hours , a coached practical experience of over 40 hours as CEFE Trainer for business people and start-ups
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Sept 14
24 , 2016
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Certificate ; “Get Funding from the European Union” implemented by Env.net
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April 2015
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Certificate ; EU project design process and implementation of environmental policy by European
Environmental BUREAU
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Jun 2012
Nov 2012
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IPA 2011 Project & GIZ “Support to Agriculture and Rural Development” (SARD-IPARD)
Certificate; Albanian advisory structure on the implementation of the IPARD-like grant scheme
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May 2014
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Certificate; Audit of Innovation and Technology for SME’ s implemented by AIDA
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Feb 2011
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Diploma on“ Consulting as a Business for Business Services Providers implemented by EU-SME Project
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May 2010
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International Symposium „The development of the Albanian Maritime System and EU
Experience; organized by The University of Vlore-Albania as Lector of the study “The Fisheries
Management and Marine Techniques in Albania”
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March 2010
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Certificate „The Business Success Through Sustainability implemented by Netherlands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, - REC for Central Eastern Europe in Budva Montenegro
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March 2003
- Aug 2004
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Diploma Women Leadership Program implemented by USAID/Partners-Albania.
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May 2003
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Certificate: for Anti-Corruption Program for Public and Civil Society; Officials implemented by North Florida International Visitors Council in the USA
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June 2003
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Certificate: Regional Development Agency Support to SMEs implemented by World Learning/USAID , in Warsaw, Poland
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July 2003
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Certificate: Making Cents Training Course for Master Plan implemented by SBCA Program Chemonics International Inc., and Making Cents International
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February 2002
July 2002
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Certificate of Achievement:, Anti-Corruption Activities Regarding Public Procurement
by Prefect Co at Budapest, Hungary;
Certificate Successfully completed the training course on " Quality Management-Quality
Assurance-ISO 9001 for SMEs, Organized by EOMMEX S.A., GLYFADA GREECE,
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Feb 5 – 25 1999
March 1998
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Diploma ;” Management Training in British Industry” delivered by British Government Know-How Fund and JICAP programme in BELFAST Northern IRELAND
Certificate: has successfully completed a Credit Union Induction Course organized by “ Irish League of Credit Unions”, in Dublin IRELAND
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Oct 1996- Nov 1998
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Master Diploma , has successfully completed a programmed “Training of Trainers and Advisers for SME” delivered by ‘ International Training Centre of the ILO’ Turin, Italy
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December 1997
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Certificate has successfully completed the training course on “Modern Techniques For Effective Management of SMEs“ Organized by EOMMEX S.A Glyfada, Greece
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Nov- January 1996
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“Training of Trainers(TOT) SMEs course administration delivered by CEFE/GTZ Germany
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June 1987
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Decorated of the Parliament “ Excellent Contribution to the State Trade Enterprise and “Civil Society ”
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Ylldise Brahimaj ___________________________________________________
Permanent Address: Str. “Pjeter Budi”, Pallati “Fasked”, ap 9/1, TIRANE ALBANIA
Mobile Phone: +355 69 3834994,
viber/whatsAup +355 (69)3834994
personal Email: [email protected];
office email [email protected] Skype; diska.brahimi
http://al.linkedin.com/pub/ylldise-brahimi/23/30a/423; and
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Regional...RDA
https://www.kosovalive360.com/perkushtimi-i-ylldises...
CURRICULUM VITEA
1. FAMILY NAME: Brahimaj
2. FIRST names: Ylldise
3. Nationality: Albania
4. Place Residence: Tirana -Albanian
5. Civil Status: Single
6. Education:
Institution [Date from - Date to]
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Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
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Albania Agricultural University, Economics branch
September 1992-July 1997
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BSc (Economics)
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ILO, Turin Italy Oct 1996-Nov 1998
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Master Diploma- Private Sector - SME’s Consultant & Trainer
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USAID/Partners-Albania; March 2003-August 2004
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Diploma ;Women Leadership Program
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7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – excellent; 5 – basic)
Language
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Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Albanian
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mother tongue
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English
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2
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2
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3
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Italian
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3
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4
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5
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8. Membership of professional bodies:
- Board member and Founder of Albanian’s Network of RDAs
- Member of the Enterprise Europe Network EEN in Albania
- Collaborator at Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen -AFAEMME
- CIVICUS members of the Alliance
- Founder at “Johana ” Saving Credit Union
- Member of National Leadership of Women Network
- Founder of National Producer and Creative Women Association
- Albanian Coalition’s for Women and Youth in decision making
- Board Member at National Business Women Promotion Association
9. Long experience with Stakeholders as collaboration and partners
- Local Goverment ( Municipality and Prefecture)
- Central Government ( Ministry of Finance and Economic, Ministry of Local goverment and Ministry of labour)
- Public Institutions ( tax office )
- Business comunity
- Techincal University
- Publice and private Vocational Training Centre
- Technical School( Trade, Tourism and Bank)
- Business Associations and bussiness company
10. Position: Project Management & SME Development Expert
- 11. Years within the Regional Development Agency (RDA): over 25 ye as Executive Director at VRDA ,
- Senior SME Development Expert /Trainer at EU-SME project, EBRD,USAID,UNDP,GIZ and Italian Albania SME Development
- External Expert at EU Delegation in Albania for “Competitiveness, business, Innovation and Trade”
12. Key qualifications (relevant to the project): Management and SME Expert /Trainer/coaching /Mentoring specializing in different business fields as follows;
- Social –Economic development Consultancy (strategy, training needs analysis(TNA) ,
- Assessment of socio-economic and business development and Training Needs Analysis (TNA);
- Local government (regional development in economic area);
- National innovation SME development and startup for young people and unemployment
- Established a training curriculum, including Training-of-Trainers(TOT) programmes, for impact assessment (and policy impact assessments) as well as private and public consultation,
- Innovation , Competitiveness, Business and trade
- Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment;
- SMEs competitive policy , labor market policies,
- Capacity Building to Public institution and SMEs development
- Private sector and SME competitiveness covered by IPA programmed ,EU ;
- Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Regional and local Development;;
- Project implementation . evaluation and impact assessment;
- Employment and labor development for Public and Private Institution ;
- Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of relevant contracts and partnership agreements with all relevant stakeholders;
- Vocational education and training (VET) for unemployment and vulnerable people
- Expertise Good Governess / anticorruption in Municipalities ( Sarande, Vlore and Puke ) ;
- Capacity Building for local government staff ;
- TOT for SME particularly for young people, Business association and rural development sector;
- The adviser has gained comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the CEFE method;
- Trainer and coaching instrument .in entrepreneurship development according to CEFEmethod;
- Fostering strategic partnerships and innovation in established businesses as ;
- Leadership of women and youth ; Young New entrepreneurship;
13. Specific experience in the region: Albania
Country
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Date from – to
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Overall in Albania and region
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May 2014 to present
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Southern Albania
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Oct 1998- May 2014
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South West Albania
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Oct 1993- May 1998
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