Entrepreneurial skills training for youth : the case of Buswelu Ward Mwanza

dc.contributor.advisorLigembe, N.N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorOkeyo, Phoebe Rianen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-16T20:19:37Z
dc.date.available2010-09-16T20:19:37Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.description.abstractThis project describes youths struggles in income generating activities, examines the extent to which entrepreneur skills could bridge business challenges they are facing. The project strives to facilitate youth groups, which are engaged in firewood/charcoal stoves enterprises, to create employment and ensure environmental sustainability. Analysis of different info and data indicate that the community is less aware about the impact of smoke generated by traditional woodstove to their health and to the environment. The data and the historical use of traditional woodstove to their health and to the environmentThese data and the historical use of traditional woodstoves have for many years have become one of the hindering factors to this business. The project intervention point to the problem will be focused on the developing the capacity of youth in terms of entrepreneurship skills to: - Build and support opportunities for youth to participate in a fair trade movement, - Develop open trading and financial systems that are predictable and non-discriminatory. - Address youth self-employment as a fundamental block to poverty eradication. - Use micro finance and skills development initiatives to reduce barriers for youth entrepreneurship. - Seek government facilitator role in nurturing youth enterprise. - Building partnerships between youth, community, and private sector to meet the community needs. - Lead economic, social and environmental enterprises. This will help in achieving project objectives. The objects are as follows:- - To establish the making of firewood stove in Buwselu. - To create awareness in Buswelu Community to use improved firewood stoves. - To improve youths welfare and economic development in Buswelu community - To train youth in entrepreneurial skills to improve their businesses. (Author abstract)en_US
dc.description.bibliographicCitationOkeyo, P. R. (2007). Entrepreneurial skills training for youth: the case of Buswelu Ward Mwanza. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science (M.S.)en_US
dc.description.schoolSchool of Community Economic Developmenten_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/557
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire Universityen_US
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dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibiteden_US
dc.rightsHolderOkeyo, Phoebe Rianen_US
dc.sourceOriginal format: Bound CED Project Report, Shapiro Library, Southern New Hampshire Universityen_US
dc.subject.lcshSouthern New Hampshire University -- Theses (Community Economic Development)en_US
dc.subject.lcshOpen University of Tanzania -- Theses (Community Economic Development)en_US
dc.subject.otherentrepreneurshipen_US
dc.subject.otheryouthen_US
dc.subject.otherfinancial literacyen_US
dc.subject.othermicroenterpriseen_US
dc.subject.otherIlemela District (TZ)en_US
dc.subject.otherMwanza Region (TZ)en_US
dc.subject.otherTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleEntrepreneurial skills training for youth : the case of Buswelu Ward Mwanzaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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