Programs and Initiatives
What YWEA Offers
Programs of the Youths and Women Entrepreneurship Association
Human and Environmental Protection
Promoting the safety, dignity, rights, and well-being of individuals and communities while supporting environmental protection, climate resilience, and sustainable development. This includes safeguarding, preventing gender-based violence and exploitation, child protection, human rights awareness, environmental conservation, climate action, green entrepreneurship, and sustainable resource management.
Education, Literacy, Skills and Digital Inclusion
Promoting literacy, lifelong learning, educational counselling, and inclusive learning pathways while strengthening vocational, leadership, and digital skills for employment, entrepreneurship, and personal development. Adult Literacy and Numeracy Educational Counselling and Guidance Psychosocially Informed Learning Support Educational Psychology and Learning Support Digital Learning and Inclusion
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Enterprise Development
This programmatic area brings together YWEA’s work across women’s economic empowerment, access to finance, mentorship and networking, youth innovation, and start-up development. It supports women and young people in transforming ideas into viable and sustainable enterprises through: Entrepreneurship and business development training, Women’s economic empowerment and enterprise growth, Access to finance and financial inclusion, Business incubation and start-up development, Mentorship, coaching and peer learning, Networking, partnerships and market linkages, Youth innovation and enterprise solutions, Digital entrepreneurship and e-commerce, Green and sustainable entrepreneurship
Voices from Our Community
Voices from the Youths and Women Entrepreneurship Association Community
The mentorship program connected me with investors. Within 4 months my fashion brand store was featured at the Yaoundé International Trade Fair.
Fatou Blessing
As a young mother, I never thought I could run a business. YWEA changed my life. My poultry farm now supplies 3 major markets in Yaoundé.
Esther Agbor
Joining YWEA changed everything. Through SkillCraft and BizConnect, I gained both technical skills and business coaching. With access to savings schemes and small grants, I purchased equipment, opened my own salon, and hired two assistants. My confidence and knowledge as a young entrepreneur have grown tremendously.
Miriam
Before joining YWEA’s SkillCraft program, I struggled to make ends meet with my small tailoring shop. Through the vocational training, mentorship, and access to microloans via FundPath, I expanded my business, now employing five young women in my community. My monthly revenue has doubled in just 12 months, and I can finally save for my family’s future.
Amina
The seed grant from the Youths and Women Entrepreneurship Association helped me scale my provision store business. Women like me now have real opportunities.
Grace Kumba, Cameroon