The Journey of a 6-Month Youth Entrepreneurship Training: Rethinking Innovation through Coaching, Mentorship, and Beyond

In Sierra Leone, United Nations Development Programme Accelerator Lab’s nationwide grassroot solutions mapping exercise started in October 2019 and subsequently, was followed by a national validation process of selected high potential solutions. During our mapping campaign and even with the many speed bumps they had to run over,  the team met with over 50  innovators in very hard to reach communities such as Mongor and Mattru Jong and far-flung village like Rosenor to conduct one-to-one interviews and gathered more information and insights about their solutions. This field visit exercise brought a lot of relevant information to light regarding each individual solution. Three key noticeable things were…………………

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