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:
- NEAL Enterprise Development Initiative
- Young Mompreneurs Initiative (YOMI)
- Poultry Value Chain Project (PVCP)
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:
- Light Up Learning Solar Lamp Project
- Digital Skilling and Employment Project (DSEP)
- Digiwomen Initiative
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
- Succeed With A Mentor Initiative (SWAMI)
- Campus Career Building Summit: 2013-2019
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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:
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