LEA, BAC entrepreneurial programme blossoms

The deputy CEO of Local Enterprise Authority (LEA), client services, Masego Gwaila-Madanika believes that the graduate consultancy programme between her organisation and Botswana Accountancy College (BAC) is what the economy needs in order to groom upcoming generation of entrepreneurs.

Gwaila-Madanika was giving concluding remarks at the programme’s graduation ceremony held this week at BAC campus.

She said the programme has unique practical hands on component, “and we shall be looking at innovative ways of improving it going forward”.  The deputy CEO said the graduates or “student consultants” were attached to LEA assisted enterprises for a period of one year, for both parties to collectively diagnose challenges experienced by the businesses, then recommend and implement remedies that will insure business growth for the enterprises.

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