Project Partner
Subsaharan Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development Center (SSC)
The Subsaharan Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development Center (SSC) is the expert internship and mentorship place for young and burgeoning entrepreneurs in Africa. Set up to bring the finishing component of the work of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s South East Entrepreneurship Development Center (CBN-SEEDC), implemented by the International Center for Development Affairs, SSC work also includes the development of the functional, managerial, and leadership skills that differentiate SSC graduates from other entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
SSC have equipped some of Nigeria’s most driven minds with a rigorous experiential internship and mentorship programs, leading them onto an entrepreneurial path that guarantees the fortune of their future. SSC targets include the most driven, passionate and talented prospects.
The SSC program combines simulations, internships and mentorships, making the trainees experience the best entrepreneurial leadership, strategy, and culture
Networking Partners
GCE -Victoria
Education Fundation
A Project supervision of African German Information Center (AGIC)
GCE -Victoria (Gbandi Chukwemeka Emmanuel – Victoria Education Foundation) a nonprofit foundation instituted in memory of Chief and Mrs. E.C. Gbandi, both veterans and advocate of community leadership and educational development advocacy, who dedicated their life to educational and personal capacity development, especially for the brilliant but less privileged in the society.
GCE-Victory is in fulfillment of the duos to assist individuals with potentials to aspire to higher educational development like everyone else while also advocating for giving back to the community and community leadership.
GCE-Victoria Education Foundation provides resources for personal academic achievement and innovative personal educational capacity development programs through grants and donations
Aims & Objectives
- To assist students who are qualified but are financially handicapped to continue their studies
- To provide or facilities grants, scholarships and educational material to students for better success in school education.
- To carry out direct or through institutional partnership career guidance and counselling sessions for youth in order to create awareness about the best possible career they could pursue in their life.
- To conduct vocational training programs and capacity building
- Assist young people through advancement of employment skills development, with emphasis on children from less privileged background
International Center for Development Affairs
The ICDA is a Nigerian based social enterprise that conducts entrepreneurship education and assists in youth business development. ICDA would be responsible for the recruitment of participants based on the agreed procedure and eligibility criteria. The experts and consultants from ICDA pool would conduct most of the training that relates to local economies, while the partners of AGiC would conduct the aspects that relate to international trade and networking. The experts selected are successful entrepreneurs with a proved record of training capabilities. We will seek to partner with the Central bank of Nigeria on the AGSMEIS fund that will give help participants to access loans to fund business ideas.