Productive Families Services
Bahriani Productive Families
Productive families in the Kingdom of Bahrain have a long history starting with handicrafts by the people of Dilmun. Therefore, the Home Product Project, which is developed and fostered by the Ministry of Social Development, is based on a diverse base of heritage and modern products as well.
General Objectives:
- Professional and technical training for the home produced items through training programs and workshops.
- Providing financial support for productive families’ projects.
- Marketing home-made products by involving them in local and foreign exhibitions.
- Opening new marketing places for producing families and marketing them through vehicles distributed to the commercial complexes.
- Encouraging the private sector, companies and banks to purchase souvenirs from the products of the produced house, in addition to displaying them in the duty-free shop of Bahrain International Airport.
- Qualifying families and providing them with technical and craftsmanship skills through the production units, which are: productive kitchen, productive sewing, home farming, ceramics, likewise, through the workshops located in the Capital Complex: Ceramic Development Workshop, Jewellery Development Workshop, Centre for Development and Innovation, Information Technology Unit, Marketing Units, Productive Kitchen and Manufacturing Workshops at Sitra Complex for Productive Families.
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(Khatwa) for Home-Based Businesses Center
The economic and social empowerment of the Bahraini family is on the priorities list of the Ministry of Social Development, and in order to achieve this basic objective, the idea of the "Khatwa" Project for Home Projects came to provide all needs and facilities required for families and individuals to start their business projects from home.
Khatwa Program “Productive Home license” is considered one of the important programs that contribute to supporting the informal economy and works to provide advantages for registering productive families’ projects under a legal umbrella regulated by Cabinet Resolution No. (39) of 2010 regarding regulating the practice of productive activity from home (home). product) to ensure its registration, provide the necessary training for it, and open marketing windows for it free of charge within a group of productive activities that were limited by the Ministry of Trade and Industry due to the lack of regulation and its issuance by a decision of the Ministry of Social Development No. (19) for the year 2011 regarding determining the productive activities that can be practicing it from home.
Khutwa Project Objectives:
- Granting free legal cover for working from home in coordination with the relevant authorities (Civil Defense in the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Municipal Affairs) according to the nature of the products.
- Preparing a Bahraini entrepreneur who is able to compete in the private sector.
- Economic empowerment of low-income families and their transfer from need to financial independence.
- Improving the individual's situation in terms of productive development.
- Preparing specialized professional cadres for specific trades through training programs and workshops provided by the centers affiliated with the program.
Target group:
- Employees in the private sector with low income
- Bahraini Productive Families
- Jobless
- Social Security beneficiaries
- Non-working housewives
Registration in the Project:
You can register at the Home-Based Businesses Project by filling in the Productive Families Form. After registration, a written message along with a completed Home-Based Businesses Form should be submitted. These forms are available at all the community centres, Capital Mall for Bahraini Handmade Products, Sitra Centre for Productive Families and Al Sayah Centre for Bahraini Handmade products.
Productive Home (Licensing) office
The office is responsible for registering and following-up applications for applicants to the center or the list of unemployed families and individuals received from the employment offices in the ministry, or the list of families receiving social security, and working to follow up the approvals required to grant the product home registration from ministries, state institutions and relevant authorities.
The office also works on issuing licenses for the productive home (registration card, certificate, and advertisement by which the house is known).
The Ministry issued Resolution No. 19 of 2011, which includes production activities that can be practiced from the productive home, as these licenses are granted after completing the approval of the competent authorities from the relevant ministries.
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Training Programs for productive families
Centre of Excellence for Micro-Enterprises Development
The center works on training and qualifying those enrolled in the program on the most important skills they need in managing and developing their projects professionally, in addition to organizing basic courses that contribute to the success of their projects, whether related to the art of dealing with customers or keeping accounts and financial and banking transactions, and introducing them to the latest technologies that ensure their keeping pace with administrative and financial development For their projects or qualify them to switch to the market more broadly and open a commercial registry for them in coordination with the competent authorities in the Kingdom.
The center also provides a lot of other services that will support home projects according to the type of productive activity of the family.
Design and Innovation Centre:
The Design and Innovation Center is specialized in developing the products of those enrolled in the program in line with the requirements of the local and foreign market through guidance and training on modern technologies in design and craft production, in order to ensure the marketing of their products.
Training Programs in Social Development Centers:
The social centers, through the Department of Family Development, provide programs and training courses throughout the months of the year with a primary developmental objective and secondary objectives, including the creation of new productive families that will form the nucleus of a qualified Bahraini business after passing the training and development stages through the centers supporting the project such as the Design and Innovation Center and the Excellence Center for Microenterprises.
Productive Families’ Awards
Within its development plans, the Kingdom of Bahrain paid tremendous importance to the projects of productive families. Whereas, the government supported such projects as they represent small and micro enterprises that contribute to the expansion of the labour market, increase social welfare, and empower families and women.
The importance of productive families’ project arises from being a source to gain or increase the income of the family and women breadwinners with limited resources. Due to these considerations, the project was sponsored by HRH Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, wife of the King of Bahrain and President of the Supreme Council for Women.
HRH Princess Sabeeka was always keen to provide material and moral support for the projects of productive families to ensure their sustainability and development, as well as, supporting their ability to compete in local, Arab and international markets. In affirmation of this generous support, HRH Princess Sabeeka has assigned an encouraging award in her name to be annually given to the best projects of productive families in Bahrain.
HRH Princess Sabeeka has inspired us in the Ministry of Social Development to adopt a new approach towards supporting and assisting Bahraini productive families in the framework of the project. This approach combines both creativity and innovation, and benefits from synergized efforts, expertise and diversified funding sources in order to expand the base of beneficiaries according to an ambitious plan to promote these families. .
The award of Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa to encourage productive families is held annually for the local level and every two years for the Arab level.