Starting my own small business is a prototype modular training packagein entrepreneurship that is intended to provide supplementary knowledge to young people receiving technical and vocational education and training(TVET), in formal or non-formal settings, so that they may acquire an entrepreneurial mindset and the knowledge to set up a small business, if they so wish.
The training packages have been developed as a result of numerous requests from high-level education policy-makers in developing countries, particularly in Africa, who have bemoaned the lack of employment opportunities for the technically trained, while at the same time the availability of technical services was very limited.
They were convinced that young technically trained people needed to become self-employed as independent service providers rather than depend onfinding wage employment. Young people would then be able to satisfy the demand for those services while carving out profitable careers for themselves.