Maseru, Feb. 20 -- Lesotho Competitiveness and Financial Inclusion is dedicated to ensuring that the objectives of the National Strategic Development Plan are realized by seed funding the private sectors which are youth and women owned. This is one of the steps taken to establish private sectors lead employment for Basotho.

Thus far, CAFI has incubated a hundred of start-up businesses in its two cohorts and will be up to one hundred and fifty by the end of this year with the third cohort being said to start in August in the current year. This project began in 2022, started running November 2023 and will be running for six consecutive years.

By June 2028, CAFI 's target is to have incubated five hundred start-up businesses. In every coho...