The Youth Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development project aims to provide youth with work readiness training, livelihood skills, and entrepreneurship education over 12 months. It will offer market-relevant learning opportunities to empower youth to pursue formal employment or start their own businesses. Participants will work in teams to start and run small businesses, learning skills like money management, marketing, and business planning by taking on roles like leaders, analysts, and traders. After completing the training modules, graduates will be assisted with higher education, internships, jobs, or starting their own businesses, and will have access to financial services through a youth community banking structure.

1. Youth Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development
(YELD)
Goal
The goal of the project is to competently support the youth to pursue formal employment;
entrepreneurship and self employment interest.
Objectives(s)
a. This project will provide the youth with work- readiness and livelihood trainings to empower
them to make sound career and life decisions; for example by starting an income generating
business on their own. Therefore the youth will receive a market relevant learning ad work
experience/ opportunities beyond the current education and training activities.
b. The self- employment/livelihood/entrepreneurship training will provide the youth with
fundamental knowledge in market relevant skills in some of the complementary areas,
including entrepreneurship development, business planning, business skills, practical work
attachment, career development planning, and linkage to financial services.
Methodology
The YELD modules are standards-based curricula that reinforce academics through real world
hands-on activities. Participants work in teams to start and run their own small businesses.
Taking on different roles as leaders, analysts, controllers and traders, participants learn the basics
of money management, saving, investing and entrepreneurship; as they apply for jobs and
design, manufacture, market and sell their products in the market place. After completing the
modules, the graduates are assisted to pursue higher education, internship, job placements, and
business start-ups or expansion. In addition, the graduates are formed into a youth community
banking structure to enable them access financial services.
TIME FRAME
The Initial phase of the project will last twelve months