By Patricia Okolo | Operations Manager
The Business Skill Training for women and youths in Nigeria is a mobile business training designed to serve the unique needs of individuals at the base of the economic pyramid by igniting their entrepreneurial mindset, making them be agents of change, and supporting them to start a sustainable business such that they will have a reliable income stream long into their future.
The business training has been implemented in 9 communities in Nigeria.
The business training Impact.
99% (149 out of 150 ) of participants increased their income based on the data captured during the baseline coaching visit, Mid-coaching visits, Exit coaching visits, and Post program visits.
149 participants (99%) had a business at exit compared to 54 of 150 (64%)at baseline. participants 34 0f 150 (23%) had an income at baseline; this more than doubled to 145 of 150 (95%)at the exit visits. At the Post- Program visit, 149 of 150 Participants (99%) are still in business, and their income tripled compared to the data captured in the exit visit.
Of the 34 participants who had an income at baseline, their combined total income grew by300%.
Of 126 participants who did not have any source, of income at baseline 98% (62)had started a business with an income by the end of the 6 months of training.
Their average income per person grew from zero to 6000 naira per month at the end of the training and grew from 6000 to 30000naira per month 8 months after the program
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