ILO SIYB Products

The ILO SIYB Products are practical management-skills training packages for small-scale enterprise owners and managers. It encompasses a range of cost-effective and practical training methodologies and instruments that were designed to meet the management training needs of potential and existing small businesspersons. Three-day ‘Generate Your Business Idea (GYB),’ five-day ‘Start Your Business (SYB),’ and Five-day ‘Improve Your Business (IYB)’ are separate but interlinked modules constituting the material-based SIYB Program. The SIYB Program has packages for Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurs in five-day ‘Expand Your Business (EYB),’ and five-day ‘Know About Business (KAB)’ for youth and students, who want to explore their possibilities in business.Today, the SIYB Program is globally recognized as an ILO trademark.

In addition to these generic SIYB products, the SIYB Association of Sri Lanka has adopted generic SIYB products for different sectors, namely fisheries, tourism, and waste businesses. Further, SIYB innovated its product to cater to the lowest segment of the self-business, which is the very informal and income-generational sector. SIYB Association branded it as ‘Foundation to SIYB (FSIYB) and rolled it out successfully right around the country with ‘Way to Business (WTB)’ as the introduction to the business world.