Employment creation through entrepreneurial skills - support for youths, women, and other marginalized rural and urban communities is a wide intervention where SEDIT employs multidisciplinary approaches, we also employ ILO's Start and Improve Your Business tools. SEDIT is a partner to ILO in implementing the SIYB programme with Trainers and one Master Trainers.
SIYB stands for Start and Improve Your Business. It is a small business management training program developed by the International Labor Organization (ILO). It is a material based, impact oriented, cost effective, need based with international standards. It is a set of materials for training of entrepreneurs comprising Generate Your Business Idea (GYBI), Start Your Business (SIYB) and Improve Your Business (IYB) with two main objectives:
Immediate: To enable local public and private sector organizations involved in business development to effectively and independently implement entrepreneurship ad skills training and related activities for potential and existing entrepreneurs.
Developmental: To enable potential and existing entrepreneurs through SEDIT partner organizations start viable businesses; increase profitability; generate quality employment contribute to economic growth and creation of more and better jobs.
Table II: Key projects under entrepreneurship, youth employment and agribusiness
| Project | Duration | Funder | Partners | Coverage | Key outputs/Impact |
| Mainstreaming Poverty - Environment - Gender - Climate Change Objectives into LED and SDGs localization for Sustainable development and Poverty Eradication. | 2018 - 2019 | UNDP | BUNDA, KONDOA DCs, ESRF | Bunda and Kondoa DCs | With a total funding of Tsh. 68,286,300.00, SEDIT employed participatory approaches; in Bunda and Kondoa; and formed the Wajasiriamali group with 52 members, 20 men and 32 women; in Bunda, in Mwibara Village the Nguvukazi group with 27 women and 25 men make a total of 52 members was formed and trained them on sustainable farming. |
| SEDIT - HELVETAS Grain Post Harvest Loss Prevention Program | 2014 - 2018 | SWISS AID | DCs, HELVETAS Swiss Interco operation | Kongwa, Kondoa, Hanang, Mbulu, Kilosa and Gairo | Communities in Manyara and Dodoma adopted grain Post Harvest Loss prevention technologies including the fabrication of silos |
| OCHISUN (Optimizing income of local chicken & sunflower oil small holder producers) | 2014 - 2016 | La Caixa Bank | District Councils, OXFAM | 9 wards in Dodoma and Morogoro | Chicken and sunflower production value chains have been improved in the respective wards in Dodoma and Morogoro |
