PROMOTING AND EMPOWERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP NATIONAL WIDE

YOUTH 2018
Theme: “Creating a Community that Encourages Innovation, Entrepreneurship & New Business
Start-ups”
Sunday 13th May 2018
14:00 – 16:30 p.m.
Limbe CCAP Church
Limbe – Malawi

CONCEPT NOTE

A. INTRODUCTION

Promoting and empowering entrepreneurship National wide is a project committed to empower

and promote young people who are passionate to venture into entrepreneurship ventures.

Our mission is to provide high quality, reliable, accessible and sustainable entrepreneurial and
leadership training, business incubation services, youth advocacy and financial accredited projects;
hence, model the youth to become all round entrepreneurs. Our Vision is to empower youth with
proper skills and knowledge, to enable them create sustainable social-economic development in the
community.

Youth Business Movement group that was established in order to create a resourceful networking
database for those with a strong interest in entrepreneurship and introducing business startup in the
capacity of youth in Malawi for developing positive leadership skills and to espouse an honest
work ethic.

The youth business conference will bring together youth of Blantyre Baptist Church, university
students, young people, and youth leaders to listen and interact with different successful
entrepreneurs and leaders in order to be empowered on matters entrepreneurship, innovation and
leadership. Malawi aims to achieve a 90% economic growth rate and sustain it up to the year 2030
and going forward; this aim can only be achieved if the youth, whose population is about 18.6
million and out of which 75% are economically inactive. They are going to be empowered to
undertake entrepreneurship though business startups and take up leadership, thereby contribute
towards the economic development of the nation. Economic sustainability goes hand in hand with
good governance/ leadership.
 The youth of this nation are leaders and they will play a crucial role in leading us to the attainment
of Vision 2030. The Youth business conference theme will focus on Creating a Community that
Encourages Innovation, Entrepreneurship & New Business Start-ups in order to influence
economic sustainability and good governance, which are crucial in helping Malawi attain
Economic development.

B. OBJECTIVES

The main aim of the youth business conference is to empower the youth through entrepreneurship
and leadership. We would like youth to put together a successful new enterprise is a demanding
endeavor. Even though each entrepreneur and his or her enterprise are unique, successful
entrepreneurs display several important attributes like Innovation, passion, risk-taking,
teambuilding and putting the pieces together. We hope that during the youth business conference,
the participants will gain a clear perspective on the topics of economic sustainability and good
governance/ leadership.
  To provide support, care and counselling.
 To afford the opportunity for personal development through the provision of programs that
 enhance life skills, self-image and vocational motivation.
 To provide an inclusive environment encouraging participation from all ethnic groups &
 fostering
  To provide a preventative and early intervention approach.
 Provide facilities and programs to meet the needs of our future generations as well as
bridging the gap and maintaining the balance of Intergenerational Equity. Support people
 through life transitions.
  Develop better integrated and coordinated services.
  Build community capacity.
  Making the investment count (creating tangible current & future social benefits).
  Develop local solutions to local problems.
  To provide an opportunity for social interaction.
 To promote cross cultural understanding

The training will bring together youth from across Limbe and from different churches to
deliberate, share ideas, and learn from expert speakers on issues focusing on the following topics:

  Entrepreneurship and New Business start-ups

  Economic Sustainability
  Leadership
  Gender (Promoting economic and social rights and Empowerment of Girls and Women)
 Intellectual Property ( Patents, Trademarks and Industrial Designs)
C. EXPECTED RESULTS

We expect all participants to learn about entrepreneurship, economic sustainability, leadership and
good governance. We expect that some of the participants will be empowered to get into
entrepreneurship and as a result contribute to economic sustainability. We also expect participants
to learn about responsible leadership/governance and carry with them values that will influence
their decision- making as they currently and will in future hold positions of leadership in our
country.

We will also connect the participants to the speakers and entrepreneurs whom they can be inspired
from beyond the summit. To create a platform where the youth can be empowered with skills to
advocate for social change through participating in youth community dialogue sessions. Youths are
mentored and guided not only in business approach but also in leadership, community engagement
and public conduct and Increased entrepreneurship skills for youths to enhance their ability to
engage in sustainable self-employed businesses and reduced unemployment, violent and criminal
activities youths are gainfully employed in enterprise development and now see themselves as role
models worthy of emulation by other youths having now secured a sustainable means of
livelihood. We would also like to see youth close to 50 developing their startups and working on
them and also increasing the job creation in Malawi after this youth business conference.