A Kenyan mobile phone platform is offering local farmers access to a transparent marketplace that offers higher prices for their goods. Farmers who sell produce to Twiga now have access to a fair, transparent, mobile marketplace that offers higher prices for their goods. In the past, they often lost money, time, and products because sales …
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Quality assurance of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) qualifications should be seen as an end-to-end process that applies to the conception and formation of skills as well as to the practical administration of assessment on the ground. This spans a long timeframe and many steps in the processes of designing, developing, implementing and monitoring …
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Growth in the Demand for Labour Most countries have seen considerable growth in the demand for labour with higher skills and educational levels in the past decades. In many countries, supply has not grown correspondingly. This has resulted in increasing differences. Differences either in unemployment or wages between high and low skilled workers. Or, it …
What future are we building for our young people, and for ourselves? Unskilled youths face a lifetime of lower earnings and weaker career progression, leading to wider inequality, exclusion and social division. They risk becoming a “lost generation” and an additional pressure on our aging societies. Youth unemployment The jobless numbers are high. Special among …
We are looking at what has happened for the Lucubrate Magazine in the past year. To be correct, the past half year. From Newsletter to the Lucubrate Magazine What you now can find as a nice, well-developed magazine, started as a newsletter for the Lucubrate Project about a year back. The first Lucubrate Magazine with …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] ACCOUNTING, FINANCIAL and CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT, PLANNING and BUDGETING and ENTREPRENEURLISM/TVET: [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]On-Site Training[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Workshop that cover five overlapping and strongly integrated modules: Financial Management IFRS / IAS and IFRS for SMEs (IPSAS) Cash Flow Management Entrepreneurialism / TVET Planning and Budgeting [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PLANNING and PROGRAM/ BUDGETING in South Africa[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] Financial Management …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Social entrepreneur A social entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems. These individuals are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives (Investopedia). Social entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship is, at its most basic level, doing business …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Explanation Some few days back I read an article about the main reason for failing to start up a business. Entrepreneurs that failed were asked for the reason. The number one reason for the entrepreneur to fail was that the marked did not need the service or the product they offered. The second …
Successful entrepreneurs do not rely on luck. They know ways to come up with great products, time and again. Entrepreneurship has been described as the “capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit”. The Entrepreneur has to be aware of many …
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Aѕ an entrepreneur, your job is vеrу dеtаіlеd. Yоu nееd tо bе thе creative оnе. You nееd tо bе thе boss. Yоu needs tо hold thе vision оf уоur business at thе hеаd of еасh аnd еvеrу thіng thаt уоu dо fоr that business. Aѕ a business owner, уоu muѕt remember thе fасt that the long-term …
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