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GAMBIA: Global Entrepreneurship week begins

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

GYIN youth mentorship programme underway

News outlet: The Point

The Gambia chapter of the Global Youth Innovation Network(GYIN) in partnership with the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) on Tuesday began a three-month extensive youth mentorship programme on entrepreneurship at the Jenoi Agricultural farmers training centre in LRR. This comes a day after a successful national youth summer camp on entrepreneurship, leadership and information technology ELIT 2017.... Read more

Youth Forum: Youth trained on guidance, counseling for returnees management in Bwiam

News outlet: The Point

A 5-day intensive training on guidance and counseling for youth on returnees management wrapped recently at the Bwiam ChildFund Lodge in Foni Kansala District, West Coast Region. The training was part of the collective efforts of the Gambia Government and its development partners to tackle irregular youth migration. It was also to accelerate the collective efforts to re-integrate voluntary returnees back to the Gambian society.... Read more

Gambian migrant returnees regret perilous journey

News outlet: The Standard

The Gambian migrants who have recently returned from Libya have expressed regret in taking the perilous journey, while warning other young to resist the temptation. The new arrivals were speaking last week during a weeklong orientation and capacity assessment session at the Friendship Hostel in Bakau organised by the National Youth Council in collaboration with the Gambia Immigration Department and the support of Youth Empowerment Project. The orientation centered on the economic opportunities, skill development programme and support mechanism available in the Gambia as the returnees battle to reintegrate.... Read more

EU and ITC launch job, entrepreneurship initiative for youth in the Gambia

News outlet: ITC Website

Today the European Union, the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Government of the Gambia have launched a new initiative to support job creation and entrepreneurship for Gambian youth. The Gambia Youth Empowerment Project is a four-year project that will benefit from €11 million from the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and will strengthen the long-term competitiveness and viability of the country’s economy.... Read more