Kebbi State has a population of over three million people, of which about sixty percent are young people, unemployed and do not have access to opportunities that creates employment. The main issues and challenges in the communities are extreme poverty, negative gender practices, reproductive and sexual health problems, and increasing rate of orphaned children whom are highly vulnerable The project intends to build capacity of 500 young entrepreneurs on business development and finances
Kebbi State has a population of over three million people, of which about sixty percent are young people, unemployed and do not have access to opportunities that creates employment. The main issues and challenges in the communities are extreme poverty, negative gender practices, reproductive and sexual health problems, and increasing rate of unemployed youth whom are highly vulnerable The project intends to build capacity of 500 young entrepreneurs on business development and finances
Conducting a baseline survey in order to ascertain & document best practices on youth entrepreneurial skills and enterprise development strategies Select and train 500 youth (based on equality between male & female) on entrepreneurial skills/enterprise development Providing revolving micro-credit start-up capital to the trained youth and also register their businesses with the authority, and Launching an "Endowment Fund" aimed at supporting the project as a sustainability measure.
The project will develop a crop of 500 young entrepreneurs who will also be expected to establish or improve their businesses as well as serve as mentors and employers to other young people.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
