The following programmes are offered to higher education and vocational training institutions in Namibia.

Exploring Economics

Business volunteer during JA Exploring Economics
Target age group: higher education
Geographical target: Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 500 per year
Frequency: once a week over a period of three months
Description:
JA Exploring Economics tackles a complex subject and makes it accessible and fun for learners through hands-on activities. JA Exploring Economics teaches concepts such as supply and demand and inflation, and teaches learners about the effect which governments and the individual have on the global economy and on the price of a loaf of bread.
By making economics engaging and relatable, JA Exploring Economics helps learners better understand the impact they have on the economy as consumers and taxpayers, and teaches important personal financial lessons around spending, saving, and investing. Through hands-on classroom activities, JA Exploring Economics fosters lifelong skills and knowledge about how an economy works, including micro-, macro-, personal, and international economics.

JA Company Programme
Target age group: secondary school and higher education
Geographical target: All regions in Namibia
Number of participants: approximately 5,000 per year
Frequency: continuous
Description:
The company program operates like real business in the corporate world, as it offers learners the experience of real life company management. It provides participating learners an opportunity to start up their own mini companies, with real money, sell shares to gather start up capital. Junior Achievement offers learners a chance to know how different departments work in a JA Company works in the Finance Department, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Production and Administration.
The programme also offers learners skills in recording financial statements, issuing pay slips, administration records and how to draw up a business plan. Learners get a chance to learn how to do a market research, when and how to implement a marketing strategy.
During the 24 week period participants learn how to make money and in turn leads to them becoming self reliant when they face the real world after they have completed school.
The program also guides and prepares participants to survive in the global economy. Most Managing Directors and management team members of the program gain leadership qualities, communication, and decision-making skills in difficult circumstances.
The program also shows participants how to write an annual report and how to liquidate their companies after a financial period.

In Junior Achievement, we encourage honesty and work ethics, sincerity and a legal way of doing business; this cultivates good law-abiding citizens so most of our participants become these types of people. We also discourage corruption and in turn play a major role in the fight against corruption because most it starts at an early age.
Participants in the program are honoured at an annual award ceremony according to what they have achieved just the same way business people are honoured in the corporate world. The JA Company program is currently our “Hall Mark Program” where we have graduates from the program continuing their business after school and operate a profitable business sustaining them and their families.

HP Global Business Challenge
Target age group: secondary school and higher education
Geographical target: Khomas, Oshikoto
Number of participants: two teams of 4 learners
Frequency: continuous during six months
Description:
The HP Global Business Challenge® (HPGBC) is based on JA Titan®, an online program that allows teams of high school and university students to act as chief executive officers of virtual manufacturing companies and compete to earn the highest performance index.
The teams are prompted to make decisions that affect the profitability and sustainability of their virtual company and attempt to outperform their competitors in profit, sales, and market share. They set prices, determine production levels, invest in capital, plan marketing and research, and development budgets.
"The HP Global Business Challenge is Junior Achievement's most intense competition, requiring superior knowledge and skill levels," said Sean C. Rush, president and chief executive officer, JA Worldwide. "These students are socially-minded technology innovators. Through this competition, we empower their entrepreneurship and work readiness."

TTBiz (Travel and Tourism Business Programme)
Target age group: secondary school and higher education
Geographical target: Khomas, Kavango
Number of participants: approximately 50 per year
Frequency: the programme runs for 6 weeks, but is frequently extended when participants start a business
Description:
TTBizTTBiz is the Travel & Tourism Business Program, developed for JA Worldwide® (JAI) under a grant from the American Express Foundation. TTBiz is designed to let learners learn about the travel & tourism industry and about starting and running a service business.
Learners first learn about the global Travel & Tourism industry and its economic impact, then they learn how to do market research in their own area, and finally, having determined where there is a market opportunity, they setup and run an actual service business. Their customers can be travel & tourism companies or tourists.
In the classroom, teaching about travel & tourism is a means for understanding not only one's own heritage, but also the culture and customs of others. Cross-cultural learning is reinforced by the course design, which requires learners to interact with and learn from tourists in their own country and from learners participating in the program in another country.
Using interviewing and survey techniques, learners learn how to communicate face-to-face and via the Internet with people from other cultures. They learn about cultural differences and develop active listening skills.

Business Establishment Sustainability Programme
Target age group: youth in vocational training institutes
Geographical target: Oshana, Oshikoto, Omusati, Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 100 per year
Frequency: the programme runs annually during 3 months
Description:
This program provides related life skills and development, business counselling and mentoring to youth. The BESP is elaborative in its learning curve and supports the continuation of the business to become a sustainable Small Enterprise.
The programme was developed by JA South Africa (JASA) and an agreement was signed to allow JA Namibia to adapt and implement the programme.
BESP Group