CALL FOR APPLICATION FOR TRAINERS SUBJECT: JOB PREPAREDNESS BOOTCAMP
Background Cameroon faces widespread disparities in freedom of economic access, especially for women and youths. Social insertion through the acquisition of decent jobs or creating one from income generating skills remains a hard piece to swallow for the youths and women in Cameroon. The lack of soft skills to face the job market that is becoming even more competitive nowadays and the inadequacy of income generating skills harnessed into reliable business ventures, have been diagnosed as causalities to the low level of social insertion of youths and women. It is in this regard, that the Small Business and Entrepreneurship [...]
CALL FOR APPLICATION FOR TRAINERS SUBJECT: SME FLAGSHIP TRAINING
Background In Cameroon, 72.24% of businesses created since 2010 are non-existent in the May 2016 file of the General Directorate of Taxes, which formally attests to their death (CAMERCAP-PARC). The lack of effective management of businesses as a whole contributes to this situation, which can only be regretted. It is in this light that the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (SBEC) of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation is intervening through its 6-month flagship training for SMEs to build the capacity of youths and women entrepreneurs in business management techniques in 5 regions (Centre, West, Littoral, South-West and North-West) [...]
Two-day-in-person Leadership and Advocacy Immersion for ECCAS Think Tank Leaders
About the program The Nkafu Policy Institute, a think tank of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation launches two-day-in-person leadership and advocacy immersion program for 25 think tank leaders/researchers in the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). This special program organized thanks to a financial support from the Open Society Foundation (OSF-Africa) identifies twenty-five (25) highly qualified and motivated leaders of think tanks/researchers from the ECCAS region who demonstrate outstanding leadership and potential in their understanding of policy and who are dedicated to implementing positive change in the country. The objective of this program is to strengthen the [...]
Call For Application For the Training of Trainers – Job Preparedness Bootcamp
Apply Now Here Background Cameroon faces widespread disparities in freedom of economic access, especially for women and youths. Social insertion through the acquisition of decent jobs or creating one from income generating skills remains a hard piece to swallow for the youths and women in Cameroon. The lack of soft skills to face the job market that is becoming even more competitive nowadays and the inadequacy of income generating skills harnessed into reliable business ventures, have been diagnosed as causalities to the low level of social insertion of youths and women. It is in this regard, that the Small [...]
Call For Application : 6- Months Flagship Training and Job Preparedness Boot Camp
This program is open to all Cameroonians especially women and internally displaced persons, who are holders of at least an Advanced Level Certificate holder or its equivalent living in the Center, Littoral, North-West, South-West and Western region.
Call for Abstract – Nkafu Africa Health Forum
The Nkafu Africa Health Forum offers an exclusive, up-to-date view of the major opportunities and challenges affecting the health sector in Africa.
Call For Applications – Public Policy Course (2022)
Call For Applications – Public Policy Course (2022) 12 September 2022 to 16 September 2022 Venue: Foretia Foundation Headquarters in Simbock-Yaoundé, 100 m from the College Jesus Marie. The Nkafu Policy Institute at the?Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation?has designed a special one-week (5 days) intensive training course to equip young scholars with critical thinking about free enterprise, government transparency, and fiscal accountability. The course has been specifically designed to: Build participants' capacity on how to run a business; Raise participants' awareness of main challenges facing businesses; Improve participants' skills in policy analysis and research methods, both qualitative and quantitative; [...]
Essay Competition on Free Trade – NOTI
The applicant should be able to illustrate how free trade will impact a sector of their choice or solve a pressing development problem facing Cameroon and/or Nigeria.
Health Research Grant Initiative 2021
INTRODUCTION The Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to its mission of “Catalysing Africa’s Economic Transformation by focusing on social entrepreneurship, science and technology, innovation, public health and the implementation of progressive policies that together creates economic opportunities for all”. The foundation provides a platform for in-depth analysis of various economic, political and health challenges in Cameroon and across the African continent. It seeks to prescribe, via high quality research evidence, appropriate public policies needed for the growth and development of Cameroon in particular, and Africa at large. With the aim of promoting health research and research-driven health policies in Cameroon, [...]
Call For Papers (CFP 4): Africa’s Governance Performance
The Beijing Platform on Gender Equality has been on for over 25 years today with a goal of achieving universal gender equality by erasing some of discriminatory social, economic and political norms against women and girls.
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