Call for Applications! Join the Income Generating Skills Training Program in Bamenda
Are you a woman or youth in Cameroon looking to enhance your income and entrepreneurial skills? The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center (SBEC) of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation invites you to participate in our exciting Income Generating Skills (IGS) Training Program! Date: January 24 and 25, 2024 Venue: Hiltop Hotel, Up Station Bamenda Why should you join? Boost your Household Income: Our training aims to reduce vulnerability and increase your disposable household income, empowering you to thrive economically. Enhance Entrepreneurship Skills: Gain valuable knowledge and skills to develop and manage your own micro business, setting you on the path to [...]
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) [...]
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.
The Challenges Of Female Entrepreneurship In Cameroon
Participants were enlightened on the female entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cameroon, the challenges faced by women in business and also the possible measures needed to ameliorate the conditions of women in entrepreneurship in Cameroon
Entrepreneurs Assess Impact Of Covid-19 At SBEC Webinar
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching economic consequences and efforts to quarantine have not been effective which has provoked an unprecedented downturn in the global economy
SBEC Business Forum for 2020 Examines Role of Networking in the Business
The 2020 Regional Forum on business-networking has ended in Yaounde. Organized by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center at the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation, the forum, bringing together strategic stakeholders in the ecosystem took place at ActivSpaces, Immeuble Tecno, Boulevard de la Liberte Akwa, Douala on Friday 31st of January 2020. The forum organized with support from the Canadian Funds for Local Initiatives was held under the theme The Pivotal Role of Business Networking to Entrepreneurs in Cameroon and focused on examining governmental support to entrepreneurs in Cameroon, access to finance, tax registration requirements and declaration procedures for SMEs in [...]
SBEC Ends Onsite Training on Entrepreneurship and Business Management
The final edition of a series of 6 trainings organized in Yaounde and Douala has ended successfully ended in Douala Friday. The training workshop that took place at the Serena Hotel in Douala was organized by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center at the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation.These trainings had as objective to empower young entrepreneurs and businesses owners in Cameroon on three axes; Businesses Management, Tax Systems and Access to finance and successfully empowered over 300 youths from the towns of Yaounde and DoualaModule under Business Management was facilitated by Mr. Ekuh Edmond, CEO of “The Gateway” , [...]
SBEC Training 5: Entrepreneurs Urged To Understand Their Environment, Know The Needs Of Their Clients
(Yaounde, Cameroon) Entrepreneurs have been encouraged to understand the environment they operate in and to equally know the needs of their clients in order to foster the growth of their business. Shouame Cyrille Researcher, Vice President of SOS Espoir et Émergence was speaking at the Mansel Hotel in Yaounde November 12, 2019 at the Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Skills training organized by the Small Business & Entrepreneuship Center (SBEC) of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation.To him, every entrepreneur is a client because they need the services of others in their work and they should not provide the kind [...]
