Abstract
Botswana youth constitutes 60% of the country’s population. Despite the effort of the Botswana
government to invest in the educational and vocational attainment and accomplishments of its
youth, high levels of unemployment among the Botswana youth remain a reality. The creation of
an institutional support platform or framework has not created a spirit of self-reliance, ingenuity
and entrepreneurial culture among the youth of the country. This study thus seeks to investigate
the nexus of the relationship between entrepreneurial youth in Botswana’s self-efficacy, attitude,
perceived access to finance and entrepreneurial intentions. The empirical study is descriptive and
quantitative in nature with 500 usable survey instruments analysed. Data was analysed using
correlation and regression analysis in order to explicate the association and the relationship of the
subconstructs in this study. The findings established that entrepreneurial self-efficacy and attitude
have a direct association with entrepreneurial intentions, while perceived access to finance for the
youth of Botswana has no association with entrepreneurial intentions in the country. The study
therefore provides not only a strategic anecdote to policymakers on areas of institutional support
for the youth of Botswana, but also explicates a conative, cognitive and affective need for structural
engagement for this segment of the Botswana population.