Goals and Objectives
As with most similarly conceived projects, the Pioneers Enterprise Challenge main objective is to align the youth and women to the greater national goals entrenched in Vision 2030.
The Goal of the challenge can be summarily given as ‘to empower the youth and women of Nyandarua County with the absolute aim of enabling them to bring social economic change to the people of Nyandarua’.
To create a structured platform to attract innovative business ideas and nurture youth and women into globally competitive entrepreneurs
- 1. To identify entrepreneurial or innovative ideas from the youth and women through a competitive process.
- 2. To mentor, incubate and encourage revolutionary ideas which will encourage a culture of entrepreneurship and self reliance in the target groups
- 3. To create and facilitate funding of investable ideas from eligible groups, companies and individuals.
- 4. To continually seek and sustainably partner with credible individuals, institutions and companies to achieve the overall goal of the challenge.
Eligible persons are advised to select and submit a business plan in one of the 5 pre-selected categories outline below.
- Agribusiness
- Tourism (local and eco-tourism)
- ICT
- Infrastructure
- Environment
- Youth and women ( either individuals or groups) participate in business idea writing competition OR existing businesses that apply for competition are evaluated at the ward level.
- The Business Idea Competition is open to all youth and women aged 18 – 35 years in Kenya as long as they are willing to implement their business plan in Nyandarua upon winning.
- The applicants can be either individual(s) or entities formed by youth and/ or women (e.g. registered business, companies, self help groups, Saccos etc).
- Interested candidates must apply online (fill an online form and upload a business plan) by visiting www.nyandarua.go.ke by 20th January, 2016.
The challenge will have two categories:
- New Business Idea generation ( Start –Up)
- Infant SME (not more than 3 years old) but in need of expansion and consolidation
