Togo: A national network for young people

Young Togolese have great support. Support structures for entrepreneurship have come together to form a national network to better support them. This is the initiative of the National Coalition for Youth Employment (CNEJ). According to the national coordinator of INNOV'UP, Candide Leguèdè Bamezon, this crucible called National Network of Support Structures for Innovative Entrepreneurship (SAEI) aims to federate the structures in order to be able to achieve a synergy allowing be more effective in the capacity building mission of young entrepreneurs. According to his explanations, the SAEI will also allow the structures to have a voice with the public authorities. The network therefore held its first general meeting on June 11, 2020 to adopt the statutes and internal regulations and to elect an office. “This office will have the difficult task of building bridges in the national network of support structures,” added Ms. Leguèdé. For the Director General of the National Employment Agency (ANPE), Edmond Comlan Amoussou, networking is an important necessity for the country. quotFor the past ten years, the government has been setting up a number of support mechanisms for entrepreneurship and it is important that private actors and civil society develop expertise and be credible relays to the target what we are aiming for,” he said. “Government authorities and public agencies alone cannot deliver services nationwide. So having credible relays is a necessity, ”he added. According to master Julien Kokou, a consultant, the idea of setting up this network is to grow, to reach a quantitative and qualitative threshold that will allow them to better support companies. “Whether by obtaining better funding or by developing better support tools, or even better techniques and by becoming more professional in order to improve even more at work”. Source Africardv.com