youth entrepreneurship facility_youth to youth (y2y) fund 2014_learning route presentation
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Addressing the needs of rural youth is gathering attention with international development agencies, donors and private companies supporting new initiatives by governmental and non-governmental organizations in many parts of the world and in Africa in particular. Issues surrounding rural youths such as limited access to educational services, dependency on mainly unpaid labour in family farms and working in the informal sector as well as the considerable impact of migration on their livelihoods - especially affecting young women- have been widely recognized as significant. There is overall agreement that if youth issues are not addressed high rates of youth unemployment and under-employment will persist and overall development in African countries could be negatively affected. In this context and in line with its 2011 – 2015 Strategic Framework, The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in partnership with PROCASUR Africa, organized an eight day learning route on Innovative ideas and approaches to integrate Rural Youth in Agriculture. The progress in Kenya between the 11th to the 18th of August 2014. The aim of this Learning Route was to contribute to lesson-sharing and learning at country and regional level in order to build technical capacities within IFAD´s operations and partners in the ESA region on innovative strategies and approaches to engage rural youth in agriculture, increase employment and reduce poverty. One of the host case studies of this learning route was the Kenya Youth-to-Youth Fund - Entrepreneurship development organization which aims to provide youth led organizations with both funding and capacity building, thereby enabling them to move from being passive recipients and become active participants in the promotion and creation of youth employment.TRANSCRIPT
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TITLESubtitle
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility &
YOUTH-to-YOUTH (Y2Y) Fund
IFAD & PROCASUR’s “Learning Route”
Nairobi Kenya, August 16, 2014
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Title: Unleashing African Entrepreneurship – Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania, UgandaPeriod: 2010-2014
Phase I: 2010-11Phase II: 2012-14
Agencies: International Labour Organization and the Africa Commission (Government of Denmark: USD 24 million)
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
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Vision: To enable African youth to turn their energy and
ideas into business opportunities to increasing their incomes and creating decent work for themselves and others.
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
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The initiative has five strategic interlinked components:
1. Fostering a culture of entrepreneurship among young people,2. Introducing entrepreneurship education in schools, 3. Making sure that potential and existing young entrepreneurship have access to business development services,
4. Strengthening youth-led organizations through a Youth-to-Youth Fund5. Promoting evidence-based advocacy to better understand what works in youth entrepreneurship development.
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
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YOUTH-to-YOUTH Fund
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Identify, test, and promote innovative entrepreneurship solutions to youth employment challenges
By giving young people a voice, means and capacity to take an active role in youth entrepreneurship development
YOUTH-TO-YOUTH FUND (Y2YF)
IDENTIFY PROMOTETEST
IDEA LABORATORY
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Y2YF-OBJECTIVES
• Build the capacity of youth-led organizations and enable young
people to move from being passive recipients to become active
participants in the creation of youth employment.
• Create decent employment for youth through the creation and
expansion of viable youth owned enterprises
• Facilitate the testing of innovative business ideas and extract
lessons from funded projects and tested ideas in order to
facilitate the scaling up and replication of successful initiatives
Ushirikiano,
Kenya Y2YF
Grantee
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• Competitive Grant Scheme for youth-led organizations to propose innovative project ideas on how to create entrepreneurship and business opportunities for their peers.
• The organizations with the most innovative project ideas
receive a grant and complementary capacity building to help implement their projects and test the viability of the ideas.
• The most successful projects initiatives in are supported in order for them to be taken to scale and replicated elsewhere.
Y2YF-MODEL
YOLADO, Kenya Y2YF
Grantee
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Y2YF-MODEL
• Standard Y2Y Fund
• Replication Fund
• Scale up Funding
Taezuli, Tanzania Y2YF
Grantee
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Y2YF Implementing Organization (Ustadi)
Grantee Organization(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Youth-led
businesses
(individual or groups)
Youth-led
businesses
(individual or groups)
Jobs for young
people
Jobs for young
people
Jobs for young
people
Youth-led
businesses
(individual or groups)
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
Y2YF-STRUCTURE ILO-YEF
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Y2YF- STRATEGIES
Y2YF Implementing Organization
Networking, Sharing of information, resources, and tools, any additional support.
ILO-YEF
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Y2YF- STRATEGIES
Y2YF Implementing Organization
Grantee Organization
(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization
(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization
(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Funding, Organizational Capacity Strengthening (Training & one-on-one Technical
Assistance), Mentorship, M&E, Replication and Scaling-up support
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Y2YF-STRATEGIES
Grantee Organization(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
Technical Skills, Soft Skills, and Entrepreneurship Skills Training, Group Formation, Group
Formalization, Access to Information, Access to Finance and Business Development Services,
Mentoring...
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Y2YF-BENEFICIARIES
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Y2YF STRATEGIES
9. Scaling Up & Replication
6. Monitoring and Evaluation
1. Launch & Outreach
2. Review & Selection Process
3. Project Design & Grant Induction Workshop
8. Knowledge Sharing & Promotion of Y2YF
4. Signing of Contracts & Disbursement of Funds
5. Project Implementation
7. Grantee Mentorship
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Y2YF in EA-BRIEF HISTORY OF ACTIVITIES
Formation of
YEF and Y2YF
2010
Y2YF Round 2: 6
Kenya Grantees
2010
Y2YF Round 1: 10
Kenya Grantees
2011/12 2013
Y2Y Rep Fund: 4
grantees selected
2013
Regional Y2YF
Knowledge
Sharing Event
2014
Signed new
implementing
partner: USTADI
Rep Fund: 14
grantees
selected
2014 2014
Scale up Fund: 5
grantees
selected
2013
Regional Y2YF
Knowledge
Sharing Event
Established
NMMN
2014
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Y2YF-GRANTEES
Foundation for
Young Farmers,
Kenya
Umvita Soap
Making, Tanzania
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Y2YF-KS EVENTS
YEF Regional KS
Workshop. Nairobi,
Kenya 2013
Y2YF Regional KS Event.
Arusha, Tanzania 2013
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Y2YF-KEY PARTNERS
• National Advisory Committee (representatives from public and private
sector (i.e. MSEA, KOTU, FKE, Enablis, Junior Achievement)
• National Mentor Monitoring Network partners
• Y2YF Tanzania and Uganda
• SIYB trainers
National
Advisory
Committee
Meeting 2014
Kenya
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Thank You!Anne-Marie Jamin
YEF Associate
International Labor
Organization
www. yefafrica.org
Y2YF beta site
• http://cwoodltd.co.uk/y2y/what-is-the-y2y-fund.html
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