Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship and Youth-Led Microenterprises in the Dominican Republic

The overall objective of our project was to provide The DREAM Project with a curriculum for their new youth entrepreneurship program and a framework to monitor the curriculum’s impact.  The team used information gathered through desk research; field interviews with existing youth entrepreneurship programs, microcredit institutions, and staff from the current A Ganar program; and multiple focus groups to create a 130-page curriculum manual for facilitators and an accompanying business plan workbook for participants. The curriculum incorporates best practices among youth entrepreneurship curriculum that are already in existence in Latin America and the Caribbean, contextualizes the youth entrepreneurship curriculum in the local context, and identifies key data that needs to be collected to monitor the curriculum’s impact.