Education and skills training

Education and skills training

Education and skills training are key to unlocking opportunities for all young people, but especially important for girls who are at greater risk of being left behind in many developing countries. UNIDO’s Entrepreneurship Curriculum Programme targets both girls and boys in secondary schools with the aim of giving them skills to develop business ideas and encouraging them to take advantage of business opportunities. Launched in Uganda in 2001, the programme is very ‘hands on’, using a mixture of classroom teaching, participation of prominent business people as role models and practice at starting a business. It has successfully expanded to several other countries, including Timor-Leste, Rwanda, Angola and Tanzania, as well  Mozambique. Between 2006 and 2009 courses were delivered to a total of 1,397 schools, reaching out to more than 416,000 pupils.