By Doh Bertrand Nua
Some young start-uppers drawn from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education under the National Support Programme for Rural and Urban Youth (PAJER-U) have been trained on how to create, sustain and run their own businesses.
Youth pose with SMEPA officials after training
This was during three day training in Yaounde, organised by the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency (SMEPA).
It focused on strengthening the entrepreneurial skills of the over 30 trainees on market trends, business resilience, dynamics, sustainability, brand positioning, enterprise development, and formalizing of businesses.
SMEPA experts at the training which spanned 9-13 November 2020 revealed that it would help resolve the problem of unemployment which is a major problem in the country as it would give participants skills to create their own business and source funding to make it grow.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, the General Manager of SMEPA, Jean Marie Louis Badga, disclosed that the training has helped improved the capacities and business plans of the youths as well as enabled them adopt more resilient measures to ensure sustainability of their businesses within the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.
SMEPA GM hands certificate to trainee
The GM said the training which falls in line with the Head of State’s vision to accompany youths in their projects, provided solutions to problems faced by businesses of the participants through modules that were developed for them.
He expressed the wish to see the trainees put to use the skills acquired for the benefit of not only themselves but for others in their community.
Badga urged the youth to legalize their businesses by moving from the informal to the formal sector in order to make their businesses thrive by sourcing funding. He equally underscored the importance for them to pay their taxes.
Deputy SMEPA GM, Ewusi Eric hands certificate to trainee
The training also served as an opportunity to detect talent among the youths as they were given the opportunity to draw up their business plans and projects that if funded would help change their story.
Majority of the youth expressed gratitude to SMEPA for the training, promising to adequately put them to use. Many confessed that the training has given them a new perspective of how to operate their businesses.
The closing ceremony was attended among others by representatives from the Ministries of Finance, Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Livestock and the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Network for the Entrepreneurship.
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