urban youth fund at nexus global youth summit 2013
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URBAN YOUTH FUNDUN-HABITAT
Nexus Global Youth Summit2013
Urban Youth Fund
What have we learned?
How can you get involved?
What is the Urban Youth Fund?
1• A gate opener for youth groups with low
or no access to finance
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• A laboratory for testing out new models and mechanisms for youth empowerment
3• A provider of input to UN-Habitat’s
research and normative work
Ultimate goalChange the policy of bilaterals and
multilaterals affecting youth globally
Youth Fund: A working model?
• Funding small scale initiatives• Small is equally efficient• We learn through diversity
“UN-Habitat is an organization we would love to work with
over and over again; they empower less privileged youth &
give hope to the hopeless. We really appreciate their effort
& recommend them as one of the best UN bodies.”
- Project Coordinator, Love Planet
Youth Fund: A working model?
• Funding small scale initiatives• Small is equally efficient• We learn through diversity
Small is equally good and efficient
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Grant Size ranging from USD4,000 to USD 25,000
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Source: 2009 Urban Youth Funded Projects
Small is equally good and efficient
Youth Fund Grantees No significant difference between small and large grants in terms of ability to achieve project goals There is inverse relationship between the size of grant and efficiency
Youth Fund: A working model?
• Funding small scale initiatives• Small is equally efficient• We learn through diversity
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Thematic Focuses
Urban Youth Fund
What have we learnt?
How can you get involved?
What have we learnt?
• Youth-led development is complex and multi-focused• Financial important but not in a vacuum• How to create sustainable results?
Purpose of Youth-led Initiatives
Youth-led projects are wide in their scope of
work and tackle intricately-linked issues TOGETHER rather than
one by one.
Source: 2008-2012 Web Survey of Youth-Led Initiatives-UN-Habitat, Youth Unit
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Reproductive Health
What have we learnt?
• Youth-led development is complex and multi-focused• Financial support important but not in a vacuum• How to create sustainable results?
“Personally, I am grateful to UN-Habitat for the support they gave me as the Project Coordinator. In 2012, I benefited from the project implementation training in Cairo (Egypt) which greatly boosted my project management and implementation skills. UN-Habitat also gave CI, guidelines on various aspects of the project such as report writing” -Project Coordinator, Conscience International -
Gambia
Physical Capital
Human Capital
Financial Capital
Social, political
& cultural capital
“Personally, I am grateful to UN-Habitat for the support they gave me as the Project Coordinator. In 2012, I benefited from the project implementation training in Cairo (Egypt) which greatly boosted my project management and implementation skills. UN-Habitat also gave CI, guidelines on various aspects of the project such as report writing”
-Project Coordinator, Conscience International -Gambia
“The project has established a credit facility for the youth known as the Entrepreneurship Support Fund which supports small businesses run by youth and helps turn their ideas into successful businesses. UN-Habitat funds for entrepreneurship support were invested as a revolving fund and are helping to address part of the challenges. The credit facilities established means that the project impact will continue after UN-Habitat funding as it is a revolving fund which will continue to benefit more youths in various ways.”
- Project Coordinator, CYM
What have we learnt?
• Youth-led development is complex and multi-focused• Financial important but not in a vacuum• Creating sustainable results
“When you train women you train a family. Women are role models—
their families and children look up to them and more needs to be done
to help them. Young women are ready and bring change. They need
direction and leadership. Being a young female, I can bring light
wherever I go.”— Coordinator, Girls to Mothers Project
Creating Sustainable ResultsDirect Youth
Funded Project
Funded Youth Group
Community Level
Immediate Intermediate Long-term
Creating Sustainable Results
Immediate Outcomes
• Capacity building through project management training for Project Coordinators
• Expanded working space for some grantees
Intermediate Outcomes
• Revolving funds• Youth-run micro-
enterprises• Resource centers• Cooperatives
and working groups
• Enhanced skills for targeted youth
Long term Outcomes
• Community cooperation and mobilization towards sustainable youth employment creation
• Youth viewed as positive change agents in their community
Urban Youth Fund
What have we learned?
How can you get involved?
Our goalsImproved
mentorship during the project
Improved monitoring and evaluation during
the project
Improved assistance/support to scale up successful projects for year 2
Create platform and networks for peer-to-peer
learning and support during and after the project
Create platform for capacity
development after year 1
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How to get involved
1. Through One-To-One mentorship
2. As a resource person in regional training sessions
3. As a resource person in regional alumni sessions
4. As funder
The greatest strength of youth organizations or initiatives is
the young people within themAND
the people they are able to network and partner with.
Partnering up: Full-scale partnerExample 1: The Narotam Sehksaria Foundation
• The India Youth Fund (yearly budget of 155,000 USD for 3 years)• Customized partnership model for the India Youth Fund• Financial support• Application documents and requirements• Active partner in the screening process• Selection of projects• Contracting
Partnering up : Financial PartnerExample 2: BASF Social Foundation
• Financial support to our regional project management trainings, and• Selected projects, and• Developing e-learning platform for the Urban Youth Fund (tbc)
Let’s talk more…
jon-andreas.solberg@unhabitat.org
LinkedIn.com/jasolberg
Facebook.com/j.a.solberg
Twitter.com/jasolberg
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