Capacity development for women and youth to become entrepreneurs of local food in southern border provinces – NEO MIND

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NM Neo Mind recognize the issue of local food in southern border provinces which aims to empower women in southern border provinces who are unemployed, low income, and single parent in both urban and coastal communities as well as youth will be key to pass on local wisdom and add value for better livelihoods in the province. Youth can be an effective online promoter of such knowledge working alongside the women and other sector in the communities.

1. To explore the situation and capacities of women and youth in the food value chain production and entrepreneurship

• Activities 
  • Learning activities to experiment, innovate, and demonstrate new value-added techniques to local food

• Stakeholders 
  • Local food specialist
  • Women, entrepreneurs, local food vendors in target area
  • Officers of relevant agencies and organizations

• Expected outputs 
  • Understand the situation and capacities of women and youth in the food value chain production and entrepreneurship
  • Know the baseline of well-being and economic status of target households

2. To build their skills in production, business and marketing, and product development to create value-added southern border food

• Activities
  • Training activity to enhance marketing skills
  • Training activity for online e-commerce to add value for products

• Stakeholders 
  • Academicians, businessmen, entrepreneurs with a knowledge of marketing from production, sales and product development
  • Women, entrepreneurs, local food vendors
  • People in target area
  • Experts, successful online entrepreneurs

• Expected outputs 
  • Acquire knowledge and skills on how to assess the business environment, products and methods to meet customer needs in accordance with the objectives of the product and business
  • Able to promote business on at least 2 online platforms and generate sales from doing business online.

3. To strengthen capacities of women and youth as small-scale entrepreneur in southern border food value chain

• Activity
  • Training activity to enhance entrepreneurial skills

• Stakeholders 
  • Local food specialist
  • Women, entrepreneurs, local food vendors
  • People in target area

• Expected outputs 
  • Capacities of women and youth are developed as small-scale entrepreneur in southern border food value chain

4. To enhance the cooperation of women and youth and inherit cultural & local food wisdom of southern provinces

• Activity 
  • Training on resources and tales from the community to add value to local food in the southern border provinces

• Stakeholders 
  • Local food experts and academicians
  • Target women, youth, and local people in target area

• Expected output 
  • Capacities are developed from the training on resources and tales from the community to add value to local food in the southern border provinces

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