Tools and resources

Practical tools and resources to help you learn business and life skills, and generate extra income for your school or community organisation.

Download our School-in-a-Box Guides

Our 'School-in-a-Box' series offer step-by-step instructions to help you set up a financially self-sufficient school. Use these guides to master a range of planning and management tools, as well as learn from case studies and real-life examples of school businesses.

1. Getting Started: An Introduction to Financially Self-Sufficient Schools

2. How To Evaluate Your Organisation

3. How To Organise Your School

4. How To Generate School Income

5. How To Run A Self-Sufficient School

6. How to Educate Successful Rural Entrepreneurs

7. How to Organize Student Life

8. How to Write A Business Plan for a Self-Sufficient School

9. How to Finance Your Plan

Students run their own restaurant as a part of a profitable school business in Nicaragua

Our School Business start-up guides

The school business start-up series of two-page guides provide alternative ideas for business activities for schools looking to start up their own enterprises to consider. Many of these businesses also serve a double purpose. A school with a brick making business can use some of its production to build new classrooms. Similarly a school selling solar cookers can help parents save money on firewood meaning more savings for school as well as helping the environment, of course!

Brick-Making-Business-Guide

Dried-Fruit-Business-Guide

Fruit-Juice-and-Jam-Business-Guide

Solar-Cooker-Business-Guide

External Resources Toolkits

UNESCO Entrepreneurship Training Packages

Developed by curriculum experts from Sub-Saharan Africa these modular training packages consist of practical guides for technical and vocation students at secondary level and non-formal learners.

Non-formal learners:
Facilitator’s guide
Participant’s workbook

Secondary students:
Facilitator’s guide
Participant’s workbook

Also in this section: