The overall SIYB objective is to contribute to economic development and to the creation of new and better jobs. The immediate objectives are:
-To enable local Business Development Service (BDS) organizations, and among them explicitly women’s organizations, to effectively and independently implement business start up and improvement training and related activities for potential and existing entrepreneurs; and
-To enable potential and existing small entrepreneurs, both women and men, through these BDS organizations to start viable businesses and to increase the viability and profitability of existing enterprises, and to create quality employment for others in the process.