Good Practice

Africa Commission: Youth entrepreneurship facility (YEF and YEN): ILO Component - Final Evaluation

Good Practice Description

Tanzania - KAZI NJE NJE (Skills training): Kazi Nje Nje (KNN) is a programme of the ILO built on a network of trainers working in 24 regions, covering 8 zones across Tanzania. Using the ToT strategy, the objective is to increase the quality and number of entrepreneurship trainers and instructors in the country. KNN uses a training of trainer approach with the ILO providing overall training to qualified 'apprentices' who then train youth. The apprentices also function as business development consultants to support emerging and established young entrepreneurs. In each region, young entrepreneurs are invited to present their business ideas to a panel of local judges. Successful candidates are selected from these monthly competitions to participate in KNN trainings for starting and growing their business.

The Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme is a management-training programme to enable potential and existing young entrepreneurs to start viable businesses, to increase the viability of existing enterprises, and to create quality employment for others in the process. The indicator for this component/outcome were i) number of businesses started by youth are at-least 11500 and ii) businesses increase their turnover by at-least 20% from the baseline. In achieving this, YEF has been working with a diverse group of partners using various approaches to test a set of BDS business models. YEF developed appropriate tools for training and carried out the training in a professional manner; trainees were not left to fend for themselves in the open market; rather, they were supported to access funds and operate in collaboration with related organizations.