Training abroad is offered through ARC's affiliate centers, with varying levels of support from ARC. The three main areas are business training, specialized training and project/logistics management.

Business Training

Each of ARC’s affiliates in the Russian Far East offers subsidized basic business training for individuals who have little or no experience in business and fee-for-service advanced business courses and consulting for experienced managers and mid-level business professional. Topics include:

• business planning
• small/medium enterprise management
• market strategy
• financing
• contracts
• accounting practices
• international trade

Specialized Training

Each of the ARC’s affiliate centers develops and conducts courses and pilot programs designed to improve the business climate and foster SME development growth. Topics include:

• reducing administrative barriers to SME development
• alternative SME financing mechanisms
• systems for supporting due diligence research
• HR management and industry specific management training
• managerial accounting
• business reporting

Project/logistics management

ARC’s affiliate centers in Khabarovsk, Sakhalin and Vladivostok provide training for technical professionals and potential trainers on project management and logistics management. Project Management training focuses on:

• business concepts for engineers
• project scope management
• HR management in engineering companies
• negotiating contracts
• computer project management aids (Microsoft project)
• risk management
• managing projects and decision-making in conditions of uncertainty
• managing time and cost
• quality management and communications

• effective supply chain management through trust relationships
• inventory control /when and why size matters
• securing the supply chain /technology to combat theft and terrorism
• measuring value added along the supply chain
• international logistics: the effects of barriers to trade

ARC programs are made possible through USAID funding.