Publication
Youth as researchers in the Bahamas: barriers and opportunities for youth and women entrepreneurship: the public’s point of view
The Youth As Researchers (YAR) initiative empowers young people to lead their own research projects, focusing on women and youth-led entrepreneurship in The Bahamas. This initiative, part of the Joint SDG Project, Building Back Equal through Innovative Financing for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment aims at exploring the landscape of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and identifying the key barriers, opportunities, and needs for young entrepreneurs, particularly women.
UNESCO and the UNESCO Chairs at the National University of Ireland Galway and Penn State University led a consortium of youth aged 18-35 from The Bahamas to support their research through training, mentoring and coordination. Based on the research, three youth groups developed informative factsheets to share and disseminate their findings.
This factsheet will examine the views of young people regarding the barriers and opportunities associated with wo men-led and youth-led entrepreneurship.
