This chapter aims to analyze the trends and issues that influence entrepreneurship and the challenges faced by the youth in selected sectors in Uganda. Trends are long-term movements in a particular direction t
Since the 2000 s, such centers were revived as Agricultural Equipment Hiring Enterprises (AEHE), this time as public–private partnerships, where the state supports private entrepreneurs (such as farmers, cooperatives, and investors) with subsidized tractors (Takeshima & Lawal, 2018). By 2016, 80...
socially responsible leadership and social entrepreneurship activities.CIYOTAhas established various programs within Kyangwali refugee settlement camp in Uganda to address critical challenges faced by the refugee community such as poverty,
Therefore, there is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to invest in millet processing and marketing, which can create employment opportunities and increase the income of smallholder farmers. The government and relevant stakeholders need to support and promote millet cultivation to ensure its successful ...
In recent decades, the expansion of private schools in Latin America, South Asia, and parts of Africa has created a growing and influential group of education capitalists. Some of these entrepreneurs own only one or a few schools (the pattern in Chile), but in other cases own chains of sch...
A study that shows how a particular technology or innovation in one African country worked or failed in another will reveal compelling information for entrepreneurs and policymakers. CRediT authorship contribution statement Ellis L.C. Osabutey: Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – ...
Given that most of the entrepreneurs in RET are based in Blantyre and Lilongwe, the two major cities of Malawi, this made the RET systems more expensive in rural areas due to travel costs, as pointed out by one of the respondents: “We travel from here [Southern Region] to the North ...
A key function of policy entrepreneurs is to mobilize latent pro-reform constituencies, so it makes sense to start with as complete a list as possible. Achieving the SDGs will require substantial progress on student learning in virtually all developing countries, including those that have not yet ...