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The School of Business on Friday 16th April 2021 successfully concluded the ARUA EIMEC training of trainers in entrepreneurship and Innovation program. 听The 12 day training brought about participants from universities in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,听Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa,听and Nigeria.听Resource persons 听were seasoned trainers and scholars听from ARIA CoE USD partners听including University of Iowa, University of Lagos, 玩偶姐姐-SOB, University of Cape Town,听University of Kwazulu Natal and University of Ghana.听

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While officially opening the training on behalf of the Vice Chancellor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Principal Prof. Mohamud Jama noted that the program had built a critical group of Faculty who were able to train self-reliant graduates rather than job seekers. 鈥淭he goal of this Train-The-Trainer Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mentorship Education Certification (EIMAC) is to empower participants to create awareness and impart skills for job creation to their students in their respective disciplines and hence contribute in creating sustainable and impactful entrepreneurship.鈥� He said.

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Some of the modules taught in the programme included: Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Innovation Drive,听Opportunity Identification听and, Understanding the Business Model Canvas (BMC) among others.

In an exciting presentation, Prof. Bitange Ndemo called for an open border policy between all countries in Africa. 鈥淲e need free movement of Africans between countries because neocolonialism is the enemy of poverty. Why would Senegal import beef from France when they can get the same from Cameroon?鈥欌�櫶� He remarked.听 Prof. Ndemo also said there was need for Africans to come up with solutions to African problems. 鈥淲e need to borrow a leaf from the Indian Diaspora who went back to India and transformed their pharmaceutical industries and the ICT sector.鈥澨� Prof. Ndemo challenged participants to take advantage of data in eradicating poverty since we were in the 4^th Industrial revolution. 听In one of the other presentations, Ms Catherine Ngahu urged participants to focus on creating stable business networks for their start ups, 鈥淲ithout good business networking, you will not succeed with your start up businesses.鈥� She remarked. 鈥淣etworks are key in differentiating you from the competitors-Your network is your networth.鈥漇he said.

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The training was听fully funded by the UKRI-GCFR GRANT titled: Partnership, Research and Capacity-Building for Youth Unemployment Solutions in Africa and was also a UON@50 celebration event by the School of Business. The 玩偶姐姐 has been celebrating 50 years since it was transformed into the first national University in Kenya on July 1, 1970.

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