From a start-up grant competition for CCB graduates in Pajok Payam to a 7-month USAID-supported Basic Business Skills programme with DAI-RASS, YSAT has equipped 373 youth and women across South Sudan with practical skills to turn ideas into income.
Designing a working prototype through Creative Capacity Building is only the first step. Without business skills — budgeting, managing conflict within a group, understanding a market, and accessing start-up capital — even a promising technology can struggle to become a sustainable source of income for the people who built it.
YSAT's entrepreneurship work began with the CCB graduates of Pajok Payam. From 13 to 15 December 2022, YSAT delivered a three-day entrepreneurship training targeting these graduates, covering basic business management skills such as conflict management in business, budgeting, and group dynamics. Four groups of twelve members each — formed around the technologies they had built during CCB — competed in a business idea challenge for start-up grants: the best-performing group received $1,000, the second $800, the third $700, and the fourth $500, giving 48 participants direct experience of pitching and being rewarded for a viable business idea.
Under DCA and PMCG-funded support, YSAT extended entrepreneurship and business skills training to a further 175 Community Capacity Building participants in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area and Duk County, alongside additional sessions on business management, budgeting, cash management, and group dynamics for participants from different Payams in Pibor, including persons living with disabilities.
Most recently, YSAT partnered with DAI-RASS under a 7-month USAID-supported Market Driven Value-Chain to Enhance Incomes for Women and Youth Project, delivering Basic Business Skills Training to 150 participants — 26 males and 124 females — across the Greater Pibor Administrative Area and Duk County. Held from 18 to 21 March 2024 at the Women Center Compound in Pibor and the YSAT Innovation Centre in Duk Padiet, the training combined facilitator-led presentations, group discussions, brainstorming exercises, and hands-on activities, helping participants identify community challenges, generate business ideas, and develop collaborative solutions. The Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) was engaged to officiate the opening and closing sessions, and coordination meetings were held in advance with the RASS Area Manager to plan the activity and verify participant lists.
From 13 to 15 December 2022, YSAT delivered a three-day entrepreneurship training for CCB graduates in Pajok Payam, covering conflict management in business, budgeting, and group dynamics. Four groups of twelve members, organised around the technologies built during CCB, competed in a business idea challenge for start-up grants of $1,000, $800, $700, and $500.
Under DCA and PMCG-funded support, 175 Community Capacity Building participants across the Greater Pibor Administrative Area and Duk County received entrepreneurship and business skills training, with additional sessions on business management, budgeting, cash management, and group dynamics reaching participants from different Payams in Pibor, including persons living with disabilities.
Under a 7-month USAID-supported Market Driven Value-Chain project, YSAT partnered with DAI-RASS to deliver Basic Business Skills Training to 150 participants — 26 males and 124 females — from 18 to 21 March 2024, at the Women Center Compound in Pibor and the YSAT Innovation Centre in Duk Padiet.
Ahead of the DAI-RASS training, YSAT held coordination meetings with the RASS Area Manager to plan the activity and verify participant lists, while the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) was engaged to officiate the opening and closing sessions. Sessions combined facilitator-led presentations, group discussions, brainstorming, and hands-on activities, helping participants identify community challenges and develop collaborative business solutions.
CCB graduates in Pajok Payam took part in the business idea challenge
CCB participants reached through DCA and PMCG-funded business training
Participants trained in DAI-RASS Basic Business Skills (26 male, 124 female)
Total people reached through entrepreneurship and business skills training