Boosting Women Entrepreneurship Education in Tourism and Hospitality in Sub Saharan Africa (WITH Project)

• To empower young women on the soft skills and personal and social competences to succeed as intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and business owners in the tourism and hospitality industry.
• To support VET trainers and educators in updating their knowledge and practices aligned with labor market needs and international practices on sustainable development and sustainable tourism and hospitality, and in acquiring new pedagogical methods to deliver experiential learning VET opportunities.
• To introduce, promote and raise awareness on the concept of sustainable tourism and hospitality as part of VET programmes, non-formal and lifelong learning initiatives, thus helping to skill future professionals, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and business owners to be agents for sustainable development in SSA countries.
• To boost the definition of demand-oriented and competence-based VET pathways and increase experiential learning opportunities through reinforced links between public and private institutions active in the field of VET and stakeholders active in the labor market.

WITH (Boosting Women Entrepreneurship Education in Tourism and Hospitality in Sub-Saharan Africa) aims at reinforcing the personal and social competences and the entrepreneurial mindset of young women, thus contributing to skill a new generation of climate and sustainability conscious women intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs business owners operating in sustainable tourism and hospitality in Sub-Saharan African countries

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There are six partners involves in the project as follows; Europe: Chamber of Commerce Seville, INCOMA, CESIE and from Africa: Equip Consulting Group, Gift Women Link Foundation and AWIEF.

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• WITH Training Toolkit
• WITH Pathway Guidelines
• WITH Knowledge Virtual Centre
• WITH Capacity-Building Programme Structure
• WITH Handbook for Trainers
• WITH Capacity-Building Implementation Report
• WITH Prototyping Report