- Enrolment in primary education in developing countries has reached 91 per cent but 57 million children remain out of school
- More than half of children that have not enrolled in school live in sub-Saharan Africa
- An estimated 50 per cent of out-of-school children of primary school age live in conflict-affected areas
- 103 million youth worldwide lack basic literacy skills, and more than 60 per cent of them are women
According to the latest Global
Entrepreneurship and Development Institute report, South Africa has high growth
rates and exceptionally high rates of product and process innovation, when
compared to the global average of entrepreneurship data. Business could be
booming in South Africa – if it wasn’t for the serious shortage in skills and
start-up know-how. Sustainable Small Business support and mentorship is part of
the answer.
A report released this year by the The Global Entrepreneurship and Development
Institute (GEDI) ranks South
Africa 52nd out of 132 countries worldwide and first in sub-Saharan Africa in
terms of entrepreneurship and its development.
This despite South Africa’s “alarmingly low
level of entrepreneurial activity in spite of high unemployment” according to a
report released earlier this year by another institution, the Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).
According to the GEDI, South Africa’s
entrepreneurial environment – when compared to global standards – excels in
terms of its product and process innovation, competition, growth rate,
opportunity start-ups, opportunity perception, risk acceptance among
entrepreneurs and internationalisation.
Exciting reasons to get involved with
The iStart2 Training & Development Network as your Sustainable Development Partner
Our Projects are managed by successful
and experienced entrepreneurs from a variety of small and medium sized
sustainable businesses.
Integrating mentorship and
motivational skills from high profile business leaders, high calibre well known
artists and experienced facilitators.
Unique experiential learning
and training methodologies, incorporating the broader sustainability concepts
(ie people, planet, prosperity) and the skills that make small business entrepreneurs
sustainable in the long term.
Experiential learning centred
around bespoke community involvement (ie vegetable gardens in schools, waste
management initiatives and others). We also uniquely involve arts & culture
activations that inspire and speak to the minds and hearts of people.
In essence entrepreneurs will be taught to "create something out of nothing." Hence our training projects culminates in festival events in collaboration with co-operatives, the community and smaller and larger businesses. This event assimilates the various learning deliverables into a coherent hands-on result, to the advantage of all participating parties.
This week on the iStart2 Show we speak to some of our Training Partners about Sustainable Coaching, Training & Development. We invite trainers, facilitators and organisations to contact us to become part of building a network of Green & Sustainability Training Partners nationally.
Keitu Gwangwa & Pierre du Toit host the iStart2 Show on Thursdays at
17h30. Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 MW (AM) in greater Johannesburg
and countrywide on #DStv audio channel 869.
Radio Today also streams globally on www.1485.org.za.
A new African Civil Society Initiative has been in gestation. In the past few months, more that 3,000 interested people have been in conversation on different platforms on how to reinvigorate civil society across the continent.
Read the latest news by Kumi Naidoo on the African Civil Society Initiative here
Radio Today also streams globally on www.1485.org.za.
A new African Civil Society Initiative has been in gestation. In the past few months, more that 3,000 interested people have been in conversation on different platforms on how to reinvigorate civil society across the continent.
Read the latest news by Kumi Naidoo on the African Civil Society Initiative here
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