With Viva’s support, 30 women from Artsakh gain specialization

The “International Accountancy Training Center” educational foundation awards certificates to program beneficiaries

The free accounting training program implemented with the support of Viva has delivered the expected results. 30 women from Artsakh with different educational and employment backgrounds have received a real opportunity to become in-demand specialists. In a short period of time, the 105-hour course trained accountants and financial specialists who meet the modern requirements of the labor market. For some, accounting became their first profession, others enhanced their existing knowledge, while some made a significant career shift from the humanities to economics. At the end of the program, the women who received certificates expressed satisfaction with the result and confidence in becoming qualified specialists in the labor market.

The program was implemented by the “International Accountancy Training Center”, which has a strong track record of providing professional training in accounting, management, and business. The results of the research conducted at the end of the program are telling: the courage to start over and the determination to achieve results have become a real way to discover opportunities. The prospect of gaining a specialization in a short period of time and becoming competitive in the labor market motivated the women of Artsakh who found themselves in new life circumstances, became unemployed, lost their jobs and businesses.

“Viva’s support was very important for the implementation of this program. We tried to do everything so that these women not only became good specialists, but also were able to flexibly adapt to the demands of the labor market. For example, how to search for a job, how to communicate with an employer. We tried to teach so-called soft skills, because without them it is very difficult to find a job relying only on professional knowledge. I believe we succeeded. We conducted a small survey and found that 57 percent of the program participants have a job, 43 percent of whom work in their field of specialization,” said Hasmik Sahakyan, executive director of the educational foundation.

Summing up the results of the program, the partner organizations with more than twenty years of experience, Viva and the “International Accountancy Training Center” educational foundation, noted that the initiative helped them to solve the problems of having a stable source of income, overcoming the feeling of uncertainty about the future, and restoring confidence in their abilities.