Musika Zambia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Zambia – UNZA School of Agricultural Sciences aimed at supporting the development and implementation of the entrepreneurial skills training enhanced programme, an initiative by the school of Agricultural Sciences.
Speaking during the signing ceremony held UNZA main campus in Lusaka on May 15th, 2019, Musika Managing Director Reuben Banda said the partnership with the school will demonstrate Musika’s role of stimulating the development of a supportive market environment that provides sustainable opportunities for small holder farmers and entrepreneurs imaging from this programme.
He added that Musika’s financial and technical support to the school of Agricultural sciences is meant to strengthen staff capacities to deliver entrepreneurial training, support the costs associated with conducting a skill need assessment for student and develop an entrepreneurship course module appropriate for implementing the programme.
“As a Zambian owned non-profitable company, our development approach focuses on changing market systems that sow the greatest existing opportunity for pro-poor growth,” he said.
Speaking at the same event UNZA Vice Chancellor Professor Luke Tembo has commended Musika and the School of Agricultural Science for working together in supporting entrepreneurial skills among students and that the school will give maximum support for the benefit of students and the farming community.
He said the entrepreneurial skills training enhanced programme has the potential to catalyze a substantive shift in curriculum development of education institutions resulting in an increased number of students optioning to become entrepreneurs in agribusinesses adding that the activity to be focused on, will be the enhancement of entrepreneurial skills training in the School of Agricultural Sciences.
