Skip links

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

The overarching goal of this program is to reduce poverty by empowering young men, women and youth with the skills and resources necessary to earn incomes and create jobs through entrepreneurship or secure some form of paid employment in the labor market. 

CSAAE pursues this goal through the following initiatives and projects:

CSAAE Enterprise Development Initiatives

C-Enterprise

CSAAE Enterprise Development Initiatives

C-Enterprise is dedicated to reducing poverty by fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among young people especially women and youth. Through incubator, accelerator and venture studio programs, C-Enterprise inspires and supports women and youth to launch enterprises that can generate income, create jobs, reduce unemployment and poverty.

Some C-Enterprise initiatives include:

Learn more about C-Enterprise

C-Tech

CSAAE DigiTech Initiatives

C-Tech is dedicated to equipping young people especially women and youth with globally in-demand digitech skills and resources to enable them play gainfully in the global digital economy while providing digitech solutions to organizations. The digitech initiatives and projects include:

Learn more about C-Tech

C-Job

CSAAE Job Placement and Career Building Initiatives

The aim of C-Job is to reduce youth unemployment by providing job placement services and employability trainings to young people especially women and youth as well as internship placement services to students. C-Job initiatives and services include

Learn more about C-Job

Entrepreneurship

To facilitate development and end poverty, CSAAE inspires the spirit of entrepreneurship and supports the development of MSMEs in various areas of the economy including agriculture, digital economy, renewable energy and environmental sustainability. The aim is to provide the kind of support necessary to start or scale-up enterprises in areas of market demand. These include but not limited to:

The organization of skills (technical and managerial) acquisition trainings to enable people acquire skills necessary to start or scale-up enterprises​

Linkage to service providers and technical support.​

Linkage to clients and customers​

The organization of conferences, seminars, webinars and meet-ups that expose people to entrepreneurship opportunities that they can pursue​

Linkage to funding and investment opportunities​

Entrepreneurship Initiatives at CSAAE

Poultry Value Chain Initiative (PVCI)

CSAAE believes that the poultry industry can help many farmers and communities out of extreme poverty. We also strongly believe in the nutritional benefits of poultry meat and eggs, as a good source of protein to families

Digital Skilling and Employment Project (DSEP)

The overarching goal of Digital Skilling and Employment Project is to reduce youth unemployment by equipping youths with the digital skills necessary to access gainful employment in the global digital economy

Succeed With A Mentor Initiative (SWAMI)

SWAMI is a mentoring platform that helps young people connect with professionals one-on-one to guide them on specific career and professional development challenges. Mentors are selected from across the world based on their knowledge and expertise on issues of interest to young people.

Young Mompreneurs Initiative (YOMI)

Although several studies show that Nigeria has more women entrepreneurs (womenpreneurs) than any other country in the world, Nigeria’s most recent poverty index shows that rural womenpreneurs are the worst hit by poverty in Nigeria.

NEAL Social and Business Enterprises

NEAL is a small network of effective leaders preparing to take over the leadership of Africa for good. NEAL members run for political offices, serve in government, launch social enterprises, mentor future leaders, champion social impact projects, and Shape public policies