[Challenge:Future] Learn 4m your weaknesses!: Make.it.WORK
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The document describes Project 1SE, which aims to enable youth in Musanze, Rwanda to strengthen entrepreneurship skills and address unemployment. The project will focus on existing opportunities in food processing, tourism, and handicrafts. Specific objectives include bringing youth together to be innovative and focus on local opportunities, encouraging self-employment through profit organizations, and initiating cooperatives with local and international enterprises. Solution one involves an arts and crafts website for tourism. Solution two focuses on food processing by creating jobs in hotels, schools, and institutions. The goal is to create around 250 jobs in tourism and 350 jobs in food processing by 2016.
[Challenge:Future] Learn 4m your weaknesses!: Make.it.WORK
- 1. Project name: One small Enterprise ’’1SE’’ Team name: Learn 4m your Weaknesses Ruhengeri Institute of Higher Education Musanze, Northern Provice Rwanda
- 2. L4M Your Weaknesses ’’Overview’’ Morocco Tunesia Algeria Rwanda MUSANZE Cameroon Burundi DR Congo Africa Tanzania Zambia Botswana Increase Gender inequity Professional/Technical Skill Lost Drugs abuse & HIV/AIDS Drop out of Sciences RUHENGERI Institute o school Applied Sciences Solution1: Tourism EXODUS Ltd Vocational Solution3: Food Solution2: Arts Crafts Training Centres processing (VCTs) Ltd off farming jobs
- 3. Rwanda – Musanze Profile Genocide in 1994 1 After 1994: Current governance ≠ million killed ≠structures demonstrated better (Former leadership leadership with principles of based on exclusion) equity and strategic socio- economic development policies The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy II (EDPRS II), is aamedium The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy II (EDPRS II), is medium term development that lays out aafour year (2013-2017) development plan to move one step term development that lays out four year (2013-2017) development plan to move one step closer to reaching Rwanda vision 2020 objectives. closer to reaching Rwanda vision 2020 objectives. The Vision 2020 seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into aamiddle-income country The Vision 2020 seeks to fundamentally transform Rwanda into middle-income country by the year 2020. by the year 2020. For For 10,537,222 People out of 10,537,222 People out of 1,729,927 people/North 1,729,927 people/North 368,563 people/Musanze 368,563 people/Musanze 26,338 Km2 (Rwanda) 26,338 Km2 (Rwanda) Province Province District District 90% dependent on 90% dependent on 3,256 Ruhengeri Institute 3,256 Ruhengeri Institute 31,970 People 31,970 People agriculture activities to agriculture activities to of Applied Sciences of Applied Sciences Musanze/Sector Musanze/Sector survive.
- 4. Profile cont. Agriculture is the lifeblood of 91% of the population in Musanze District. One Tow big industries: Pyrethrum & Wheat Factory Touristic district with Volcanoes National Parks home to 800 Mountain Gorillas.
- 5. One Small Enterprise 1SE 1. How do youth in Musanze envisage their Future? 2. What kind of community do they want to see and become? 3. How can they raising their voice to fight unemployment using their available resources? 4. What are the transformations needs to impact positively their community? These are main questions the project named: ‘’1SE’’ would like to address.
- 6. 1SE cont., Overall Objective: The 1SE aims at enabling youth to strengthen Entrepreneurship skills by making them aware of use available resources to sustain their livelihoods Specific Objectives: 1. Bring together and encourage youth to be innovative, creative and focus on existing opportunities in Food processing, Tourism and Handcarts. 2. Encourage youth to be self dependent by creating profit organization and install a culture of saving for their future; 3. To initiate cooperative with local, national, regional and international Enterprises to strengthen the project sustainability.
- 7. 1SE Solution One Tourism Sector: Arts and Crafts via a dynamic website Available market: Travel and tourism Agencies: Airlines, Hotels, Motels, car rental Companies Website users: tourists, business, Leisure, events, sports and other travellers, Creating jobs to approximately 250 youth by 2016
- 8. 1 SE Solution 2: Food Processing sector: Available market: Hotels, Motels, schools, public and private instituttions Create jobs for approximately 350 youth by 2016
- 9. References: 1. Department of Land Survey, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory for maps. 2. Musanze District website
- 10. References: 1. Department of Land Survey, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory for maps. 2. Musanze District website