Minister for Planning and Economy and Empowerment Prof. Juma Ngasongwa
The Minister for Planning and Economy and Empowerment Dr Juma Ngasongwa will on Monday open entrepreneurship training workshop aimed at equipping entrepreneurs with modern techniques in doing business.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday, coordinator of the Ronald H. Brown Institute in Tanzania, Evarist Maembe, said that the programme will seek to equip local business persons with new and modern techniques of doing profitable businesses.
He said that the workshop will attract participants from five other countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Africa besides the host country, Tanzania.
Maembe said that education on entrepreneurship is a key component in poverty eradication as through such training, human capital which in turn empowers the poor to participate in the growth process is developed.
He said that the private sector should not depend on entrepreneurs who rely on inherent business instincts and simple skills acquired from the parents.
`The workshop will encourage the creation and growth of grass roots development institutions that are sensitive and responsive to development needs of the poor,` he said.
He said, opportunities abound in micro and small enterprises for income generation in economic and social sectors all over the country.
All that is needed is for the entrepreneurs to realize and see them.
The workshop will discuss a number of fundamental problems that hamper entrepreneurship development in sub-Saharan African countries.
Maembe said the development of the private sector in the region is of crucial importance to the overall rate of economic growth of the region and that entrepreneurial firms have a prominent role in the private sector in many countries in the region.
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