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NEDI Trains Rural Youth on Business plan Development

National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) has organized a five-day training for 20 youth in the Lower River Region, during a business plan development clinic on November 23rd 2017. The clinic is said to be funded by the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), a European Union funded project to curb youth irregular migration in the Gambia. This according to officials, is the first batch of 40 young entrepreneurs who will benefit from the clinic.... Read more

TOT ON DESIGN THINKING METHODOLOGY ENDED AT YEP YESTERDAY

News outlet: The Stone Circle

The Startup Incubator Gambia in collaboration with the Youth Empowerment Project concluded a training of trainers on Design Thinking Methodology. The Design Thinking Methodologies are used by the world’s most innovative companies to support innovative business solutions to the most complex challenges. 15 young Gambians are trained to be facilitators for these methodologies, which has the potential to transform all kind of business service offerings through co-creation.... Read more

Credit Union Managers end conference on youth participation in Credit Unions

News outlet: The Point

A two-day Credit Union managers’ conference on youth participation in Credit Union on Saturday ended at the Region one office in Kanifing. The conference, organised by the National Association of Cooperative Credit Union of the Gambia, brought together managers of credit unions, and was funded by Youth Empowerment Project.... Read more

Fluchtursachen in Gambia bekämpfen

News outlet: ZDF

Aufgrund von Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit versuchen viele junge Menschen in Gambia nach Europa zu fliehen. Hilfsprogramme wollen ihnen eine berufliche Perspektive im eigenen Land ermöglichen.... Read more

GAMBIA: Global Entrepreneurship week begins

News outlet: The Stone Circle

The Startup Incubator Gambia in collaboration with International Trade Centre’s Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), and Gambia’s main entrepreneurship development partners including the Young Entrepreneurs Association, The National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI), the Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce (GYCC), Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter), GIEPA and EMPRETEC on Tuesday 14th November 2017 started the commemoration of the Global Entrepreneu... Read more

THE GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK 2017

News outlet: The Point

BANJUL – 14 November 2017. The Startup Incubator Gambia in collaboration with International Trade Centre’s Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), and Gambia’s main entrepreneurship development partners including the Young Entrepreneurs Association, The National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI), the Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce (GYCC), Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter), GIEPA and EMPRETEC are commemorating global entrepreneurship week with series of exciting and educative activities.... Read more

Gov’t is concerned about youth development

News outlet: The Point

Landing B. Sanneh, general manager of the National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI), has said that the government of The Gambia was very much concerned about the development of young people, especially in youth employment. He said the Ministry of Youth and Sports through its satellite institutions has little time to relax. Mr Sanneh was speaking recently during the opening of five-day entrepreneurship training for 20 young people at Bwiam, West Coast Region.... Read more

Reawakening Gambian culture through trade – and vice versa

News outlet: ITC News

Sona Jobarteh is traditional and modern, local and global, music-minded and business-minded. Above all, she is Gambian. ‘Anywhere I go, it’s always to represent The Gambia,’ Jobarteh says. ‘I am proud to represent the smallest country in West Africa.’ As a master of the kora – a 21-string West African harp – Jobarteh has become a sort of spokeswoman for her country, travelling the world and performing in countries including Brazil, Ghana, India, the Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Mexico and Switzerland.... Read more

YOUTH FORUM: Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce set for Regional Youth Exhibition

News outlet: The Point

The Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce (GYCC), the Umbrella body and Voice of Youth Entrepreneurs in The Gambia is committed to advocating for the creation of the enabling environment that facilitates an organized, vibrant, robust, functional, sustainable and competitive private sector youth-led micro enterprise sub sector that is positioned to create jobs, generate wealth and contribute to GDP through innovative intervention mechanisms, and constructive engagement.... Read more

YEP, Empretec Gambia set to train youths on entrepreneurship

News outlet: The Point

The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), in collaboration with Empretec Gambia is set to organise Entrepreneurship training workshops for interested youths between 15 and 35 years. The Gambia Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), is an initiative funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.... Read more