Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a key driver of national development. By creating new businesses and jobs, entrepreneurship promotes economic growth, provides access to goods and services, and improves the overall standard of living. Most entrepreneurs also make a positive impact on their communities and improve their well-being by catering to underserved areas and developing environment-friendly, less expensive and more functional products. In some countries, SMEs make up more than 90% of businesses and employ over 70% of the country’s workforce. Entrepreneurship, therefore, plays a critical role in reducing unemployment and poverty. Furthermore, by their capacity to innovate, develop new technologies, adapted business models and services entrepreneurs are central in a country or society capacity to achieve climate-resilient sustainable development. ILP teams provides entrepreneurs, especially women and youth, with training, methods & tools, coaching and networking throughout the enterprise creation cycle (ideation, Concepting, Commitment, Validation, Scaling and Establishing).

What we do :

• Develop adapted toolbox for entrepreneurs

• Develop youth and women entrepreneurship and leadership training program

• Support entrepreneurs in the first phases of their project (business plan development, financial feasibility analysis, Market development, etc.)

• Development of support / funding programs / projects

Examples of projects:

◢ DRC – Ministère de l’Emploi, du Travail et de la Prévoyance Sociale
Support for the establishment of a network of innovation and applied research centers on SMEs for the Government of The Democratic Republic of Congo. This project was targeting the youth and women as primary beneficiary of the project.

◢ Kenya
Support for the Development of KASIGAU Tree Farm – an eco-business aiming to develop wood products in a sustainable and ecological manner thus contributing to a positive Carbon ratio.

Support to the VLAD Danciu Memorial Foundation – The objective of the foundation is to contribute to the prevention and rapid response to fatal road accidents in Kenya by creating trauma clinics and centers along the Mombassa – Nairobi highway.

◢ Canada – Support for the creation of IDTerritories
IDTerritoire is a group of experts challenged by the issues and dynamics specific to the development of rural areas. This group has chosen to pool their experience and expertise to support stakeholders in rural Quebec and elsewhere in the world.

For more information on what we do and how we can help you, we invite you to contact us by email at ilp@ilp-cop.com or by phone at +1 418-561-4405.