WHY JOIN THE PROJECT ?

The Powering Prosperity and Economic Freedom for Women and Youth Project has a strong focus on empowering Women and Youth in the private sector to confidently start, grow and expand small and medium-sized enterprises. The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Centre Provide Small Businesses from the informal sector, and SMEs with necessary tools, counseling, seeds capital fund, and contracting expertise. 

We will work together to:

  • Improve your access to market opportunities and assist you in legalization
  • Enable you to have access to finance and link to microfinance institutions
  • Help to understand the taxation system and choose the appropriate tax regime.
  • Train and accompany to develop Winning Business Plans
  • Provide Organizational and Administrative Support to SMEs
  • Equip you, impact and assist you in your entrepreneurial venture.
  • Facilitate collaboration with various stakeholders.
  • Assists SMEs to transition into the formal economy
  • Provide Seed Capital and Business Acceleration for Bankable SMEs (Small seed capital grant of up to $2,500 USD)

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KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES

  1. An advocacy campaign with stakeholder coalition to change policy

Advocate for solid policy change and financial institution change to create a favorable environment for SMEs to formalize.

  1. Scale capacity-building and support programs for small business owners
  • Six (6)-month business management training program
  • Providing Organizational & Administrative Support to SMEs
  • Providing Seed Capital and Business Acceleration – For Bankable SMEs (Small seed capital grant of $2,500 USD)
  1. Job-preparedness Boot Camps

One (1)-week intensive training sessions, quarterly in 5 regions, that combine technical training workshops, job applications and interview strategies, experiential work-based learning opportunities and skills to improve the overall work performance. Our training, designed from a participatory process, focuses on basic life skills, technical skills development, income generation skills and soft skills development.