Sierra Leone - Youth Entrepreneurship Program

The Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment Technical Assistance Project aims to promote youth entrepreneurship through improving youth business skills and their employability through empowering the youth with relevant skills for the job market. This pilot project will provide career guidance and counseling to 2,400 youths; train 20 TVET instructors; enhance supervisory skills of at least 100 graduates in collaboration with private sector partners; train 150 youths in three selected priority trades needed by the private sector, these will in addition go through a graduate internship program and will either be linked to employers or capacitated to become entrepreneurs; support 60 youths to start and manage businesses through mentoring; and enhance the image and attractiveness of TVET Image Campaign. The project will also procure light goods and consultancy services. It includes the following components: (i) skills development for employment; (ii) career guidance and job readiness; (iii) graduate entrepreneurship program; and (iv) project management, coordination and institutional support.