Promoting youth entrepreneurship in Lagos, Nigeria - SNHU ...

Project Objective One: Improvements in youth run enterprises as a result of change inattitude or perception. The activities under this particular objective were business advisoryservices, internship program provided by the government which helped to mentor youth to havegood attitudes.Project Objective Two: Businesses are run more efficiently and successfully and newbusinesses established: The activities used to actualize this objective include business advisoryservices, counseling and mentoring which are ongoing.Project Objective Three: New generation of business leaders emerged (more creative, lessrisk averse). The entrepreneurship training was design to have some activities on creativity,decision making and risk taking. The youth were exposed to real life situations and world ofbusiness management so as to help mold their minds to be better future business leaders.Project Objective Four: New funds established and youth have the ability to work together.This objective is long term in the sense that majority of the youth were not available to startpulling finds together and if they had contributed personal funds, it could have been easier to usethat as collateral to help them secure loan from Microfinance Bank. We were on this stage beforethe embarked on their internship programs. There is hope that they sustainability plan wouldtackle this concerns.Project Object Five: Awareness are created and more youth involve in entrepreneurshipThis objective was developed as a result of the report from the CNA carried out. Less emphasiswas placed on micro-credit because it‘s not a top- most priority for youth in entrepreneurship. Theyouth mentioned on the needs assessment about poor information dissemination and lack ofentrepreneurship training providers in their communities as the only common reason why youth66