Project name: REGIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTION OF OWN BUSINESS – YAMBOL 2003 (BG 0102-06-02.065)

Program:EU PHARE – Economic and Social Cohesion – “Social Integration”

Website: http://yambiz.com/si/

Leading organization: Yambol Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Project partners: Municipality of Yambol; Roma Samaritan Union; Municipal organization of the disabled – Yambol

Duration: 12 months (2003-2004)

The main goal of the project: the economic and social integration of two large groups of disadvantaged people – Roma and people with disabilities from the Yambol region, by stimulating entrepreneurship and developing skills to start and manage their own business.

Specific objectives:

  • to influence the high unemployment among the indicated target groups in the Yambol region, by creating new jobs as a result of self-employment, starting or expanding one’s own business and its successful management.
  • providing the appropriate knowledge, skills and qualifications needed in the process of starting and managing your own business.
  • providing a favorable information environment, in support of and for the development of entrepreneurship, among the Roma and people with disabilities.