{"id":9319,"date":"2022-09-08T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/events\/surviving-beyond-the-covid-19-pandemic-as-an-entrepreneur-in-cameroon-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:28:02","slug":"surviving-beyond-the-covid-19-pandemic-as-an-entrepreneur-in-cameroon-2","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/event\/surviving-beyond-the-covid-19-pandemic-as-an-entrepreneur-in-cameroon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Beyond The Covid\u201319 Pandemic As An Entrepreneur In Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Date: <\/strong>11th<\/sup> September 2020 \u2013 Time: <\/strong>3pm to 4:30pm – Venue: <\/strong>Online Zoom<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Background<\/strong><\/h4>\n

SMEs represent about 90 percent of Africa\u2019s businesses and provide about 60 percent of jobs on the continent. The COVID-19 pandemic does not only affect the health sector but it is also an economic crisis that could cause sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s GDP growth rate to drop from 2.4%<\/strong> in 2019 to -5.1<\/strong> percent in 2020 based on World Bank- 2020 report. The Cameroon economy is facing a lot of challenges due to the COVID -19 pandemic such as a significant loss in income which could affect the quality of goods and services produced, a sharp contraction of activity in rural areas, drop in export and import, unemployment and drop in turnover based on the report published by the Nkafu Policy Institute on \u201cCameroon\u2019s Informal Sector put to test by the Corona Virus (June 1, 2020)\u201d<\/p>\n

It is against this backdrop that the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center (SBEC) of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation is organizing a webinar on the theme \u201cSurviving Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic as an Entrepreneur in Cameroon\u201d<\/strong> so as to enable entrepreneurs know how to strive in their businesses despite the economic threats that has been posed by the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

General objectives <\/strong><\/h4>\n

The main objective of this webinar is to enlighten entrepreneurs on the different opportunities, challenges\/ strategies that other entrepreneurs have used and the various measures that have been put in place by the government to accompany small businesses in Cameroon during this COVID 19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Specific objectives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The specific objectives are to:<\/p>\n