ICT and Business Entrepreneurship Training Program.

ICT and Business Entrenuership Training Program

The ICT training programs in BUSINESS ENTREPRENUERSHIP for young women from informal settlements and low-income communities. The training programs are provided with aim to bridge skills gap and empower youth in our disadvantaged communities.

The Project seeks to address the socio-economic barriers to entry into the labor market for young women in Kenya. We seek to advance digital literacy and promote ideas for start-ups and scale ups. Due to social constraints and stereotyping, women are particularly excluded from ICT related careers. Additionally, the few women who pursue such careers remain unemployed or underpaid compared to their male counterparts. The project uses digital literacy as a tool against socio-economic barriers in last mile communities.

Eligibility:

This is for you if you are a youth with an interest in acquiring skills in ICT and BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP. The program will equip you with basic and/or advanced digital skills and enable youth to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set in an enabling environment with instructors and peer learning. To qualify applicants should:

  • Be individuals aged between 18-35 years.
  • Be residents of low -income or informal community
  • Be unemployed
  • Be willing to participate in the training for the entire period.
  • Be a form 4 graduate or have post-high school training.

Application:

Applicants are to ensure that the information you provide is clear and precise and all questions on the application form are answered to their fullness. Complete the an Application Form

We are inviting youth with already made mobile apps that solve community challenges to participate in Youth Mobile Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Future Challenge. The project is under our Innovating for Business Social Impact Programme (BSIP), the flagship project of Bilateral Youth Exchange Program that aims to build and nurture young social innovators an tech enthusiasts.

We have partnered with NGOs in Europe to provide online Youth Mobile Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Future that seeks to empower youth to develop sustainable solutions to the persisting community challenges; empower youth workers and youth to innovate youth work, promote global and regional actions to raise awareness of, and recognize the youth work in SME – social mobile entrepreneurship field for youth empowerment and employability.

Eligibility:

This is for you if you are a youth with an interest in change-making, basic and/or advanced coding skills, digitally literate, and wanting to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set, as well as youth workers developing programs on technology and entrepreneurship and mobile learning, but also stakeholders from the ICT field and the business community.

  • Individuals and/or group co-founders can participate.
  • Participants should be between 18-30 years.
  • Participants must have regulated resident status in Kenya (citizenship or resident permit); and the ability to acquire requisite travel documents for the winners
  • The participants need to have already made a mobile application (Beta version, pre-launch version, or for instance already uploaded on App Store, Google Play or other platforms accessible by the users)
  • Mobile solutions need to demonstrate clear social impact;
  • Participants need to demonstrate plans to scale up the social impact of the tech application in terms of reach and influence
  • Participants need to demonstrate how they will sustain the tech application and how they generate income

Application:

To educate and serve youths from local communities to develop solutions that have social impact on skills enhancement, enterprise development, and linking the youth to available opportunities locally and beyond. We will offer basic and advanced digital skills to youth from the disadvantaged communities which are crucial in professional development. We believe that for young people to engage meaningfully in society, they must be equipped with 21st century skills and opportunities to advance their vision of a connected future.

Interested applicants, Send your application to:
omuonyrosemary@gmail.com or andrewsadziwa84@gmail.com
Mobile +254794350130 (Direct calls)
Mobile +254789417228 (Whatsapp)