Youth programme for the promotion of entrepreneurial spirit. This is the name of the brand new programme just launched by the SME Promotion Agency in Cameroon (APME), with the technical partnership of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

“We are not looking for young project sponsors. We will encourage the youth to create, because there are entrepreneurs waiting to be awaken in the Cameroonian youth”, Jean Marie Louis Badga, MD of APME, explained.

In concrete terms, as part of this programme launched conjointly with a trainers’ training to UNCTAD’s “Goal” methodology, the idea will be to develop within the Cameroonian youth behavioural responses based on entrepreneurial spirit skills development.

According to its initiators, this programme should lead to a decrease in the number of young Cameroonians seeking employment or unemployed, through their transformation into business founders rather susceptible of generating jobs.