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TECHNOSERVE has postponed its final Believe Begin Become youth business plan competition (BPC) road show scheduled for this Saturday at Ebuhleni to next weekend.
BPC Manager Jean Mwenda said this was in respect of the annual marula festival taking place at the same place on Saturday.
TechnoServe has been conducting regional road shows the past three weeks to encourage young people to join the youth business plan competition. Local entertainment and events management company Swazi Boy Entertainment was engaged to manage the road shows.
Last weekend the event was held at Mahlanya while the first two were held in Big Bend and Nhlangano.
"So far we are impressed by the level of interest shown by young people to participate in this programme. Through these road shows we have been able to have one-on-one consultations with potential applicants on how to go about putting together the application," said Mwenda.
She said the road shows had also availed an opportunity for young people countrywide to hear stories of how others had benefited from this programme.
Mwenda encouraged young people at Ebuhleni and surrounding areas to attend the road show so as to understand how this programme would help them to access intensive business training, personal coaching and mentoring by senior business people as well as an opportunity to win seed capital prizes to invest in their businesses.
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), TechnoServe has set aside a total of E775 000 to be won as seed capital prizes by participants who would come up with brilliant, bankable business plans.
Mwenda stressed that applicants need to put together a four-page business summary to accompany the application form for entry into the business plan competition.
"Judges will select 60 participants who will advance to the next stage which includes training, mentoring and business plan development. It is then that participants will develop their four-page business paper into a complete 15-20-page business plan," added the BPC manager.
TechnoServe officially launched the youth business plan competition on January 31 and the application period is open until April 3. The target group is young people between 18-30 years old, who have new innovative business ideas or have an existing business based in Swaziland.
Mwenda said applications forms were available in various centres including the TechnoServe office in Mbabane, Swaziland National Youth Council (SNYC), ACAT, The Business Place in Big Bend and Lulote in Manzini. They could be also downloaded from www.believe-begin-become.com.
BPC Manager Jean Mwenda said this was in respect of the annual marula festival taking place at the same place on Saturday.
TechnoServe has been conducting regional road shows the past three weeks to encourage young people to join the youth business plan competition. Local entertainment and events management company Swazi Boy Entertainment was engaged to manage the road shows.
Last weekend the event was held at Mahlanya while the first two were held in Big Bend and Nhlangano.
"So far we are impressed by the level of interest shown by young people to participate in this programme. Through these road shows we have been able to have one-on-one consultations with potential applicants on how to go about putting together the application," said Mwenda.
She said the road shows had also availed an opportunity for young people countrywide to hear stories of how others had benefited from this programme.
Mwenda encouraged young people at Ebuhleni and surrounding areas to attend the road show so as to understand how this programme would help them to access intensive business training, personal coaching and mentoring by senior business people as well as an opportunity to win seed capital prizes to invest in their businesses.
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), TechnoServe has set aside a total of E775 000 to be won as seed capital prizes by participants who would come up with brilliant, bankable business plans.
Mwenda stressed that applicants need to put together a four-page business summary to accompany the application form for entry into the business plan competition.
"Judges will select 60 participants who will advance to the next stage which includes training, mentoring and business plan development. It is then that participants will develop their four-page business paper into a complete 15-20-page business plan," added the BPC manager.
TechnoServe officially launched the youth business plan competition on January 31 and the application period is open until April 3. The target group is young people between 18-30 years old, who have new innovative business ideas or have an existing business based in Swaziland.
Mwenda said applications forms were available in various centres including the TechnoServe office in Mbabane, Swaziland National Youth Council (SNYC), ACAT, The Business Place in Big Bend and Lulote in Manzini. They could be also downloaded from www.believe-begin-become.com.
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