The YES FUND

A Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh

Programme Manager

Youth Employment Summit Campaign

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1. The Twin Opportunities

2. The YES Campaign’s Solution

3. Sector Solutions

4. YES Background Information

1. The Twin Opportunities

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The Fund The Twin Opportunities

Developing countries currently face two sets of pressing problems:

Imagine if we could solve both of these problems at once?

Sector Development Needs Youth Unemployment

•  Renewable Energy: 2 billion need energy

•  Water & Sanitation: 2.5 billion people lack access to clean water and sanitation

•  Rural Development: 60% of the developing world still live in rural areas

•  Information & Communication Technologies: barely 2% of the world population has internet access

•  HIV/Aids: 95% of the estimated 38 million people infected with HIV live in developing countries

•  1 billion young people between the ages of 15-24 years, 850 million of these are living in developing countries

•  1.5 billion children behind them 85 percent in developing countries

•  3 billion live on less than $1 a day, 50 percent are young people

2. The YES Campaign’s Solution

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The Fund Introduction to the YES Campaign

• Launched in 2002 at the Alexandria Youth Employment Summit 2002, by over 1600 delegates from 120 countries, under the Co Chair of Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak and President Bill Clinton

• YES Campaign works with national and global partners to conduct the following programs:

 YES Leadership Institute and YES Academy Capacity Building

 YES FUND - Entrepreneurship Development:

 YES Azerbaijan 2008 - Partnership Building:

We have helped place youth employment on the global agenda.

The Fund The Evolution of the YES Campaign

1998 2002 2006 2008 2012

 Identify the issues

 Build consensus

 Generate ideas

 Support the development of 80+ YES Country Networks

 Advocacy with leaders and institutions

 Identify sectors for employment and doing pilot work

 Establish the YES Academy – an international R&D hub for generating employment

•  Pilot the YES Fund – a global fund for youth entrepreneurship

•  Build Partnerships

•  Create employment generation models in YES Network countries

•  Build in-country self-reliance

•  Replicate and scale up employment generation programs

We have made great progress in building knowledge and infrastructure.

The Fund The 80+ YES Country Networks

…are youth-led national-level coalitions focused on promoting youth employment

Manifesting two core design principles that drive the YES Campaign’s work

  the recognition that no one individual or institution can do the work alone; working in partnership is essential

  our belief in building self reliance and absorption capacity in our YES Network countries

Networks exist from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe!

There is a YES Event organized somewhere in the world every other day!

The Fund YES Country Networks

Afghanistan Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada Chile Colombia

Costa Rica Cote D'Ivoire Democratic Republic of Congo Dominican Republic Dubai Ecuador Egypt*** El Salvador Estonia Gambia Georgia*** Germany Ghana Guatemala Guinea Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India*** Iran Iraq

Jamaica Jordan Kenya Lesotho Liberia Malawi Malaysia Mali Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Pakistan Panama*** Paraguay

Peru Philippines Romania Russia Rwanda Senegal Serbia & Montenegro Sierra Leone Singapore Slovenia Somalia South Africa*** Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda United States Uruguay Zambia Zimbabwe

*** Site of Regional Coordinator

The Fund YES Global Activities

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE

YES FUND A Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship

The objective of this Fund is to demonstrate the power of small-scale risk capital and start-up funding to build leadership and entrepreneurship capacity in over 80 YES Network Countries, to reduce poverty, build civil societies and fulfill the UN MDGs. This Fund will make targeted financial investments and capacity building grants to young entrepreneurs in YES Countries.

We are at the forefront of youth unemployment advocacy and research.

The Fund YES Global Activities

YES Azerbaijan 2008 • YES Kenya 2006

• YES Mexico 2004

• YES Alexandria 2002

We are at the forefront of placing the issue on the global agenda

3. Sector Solutions our track record

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The Fund Renewable Energy

YES Zambia Network

in partnership with UNIDO launched

•  A Renewable Energy Lab

• Trained 50 master trainers and 250 youth as RE entrepreneurs

• Developed a microfinance plan

• Created a RE Entrepreneurs Network

The Fund Rural Development (On-Farm and Off-Farm)

YES Burundi Network Received $380,000 from the European Union for its Food

Security Program in 15 rural communities.

•  In each community, 12 YES Burundi partners received supplies, including seeds, animals, transportation, and veterinary support to help cultivate collective farms.

• The program was initiated in March 2006 and

• Today the farms employ 180 community members

The Fund Water & Sanitation

YES Swaziland Network

With the support of the government of Swaziland in July 2005 they held a workshop for diverse stakeholders and presented a ‘water and food security plan’.

•  As a result, the Swazi government formulated and implemented a National Food Security Policy,

•  drafted a National Water Security Policy, •  formed a Water Crisis Committee, and •  implemented community training programs focused on

innovative water sanitation practices. •  YES Swaziland is now working towards the goal of having

every Swazi gain access to clean drinking water by 2015.

The Fund Information Communication Technology

YES Pakistan Network Using ICT to improve efficiency

•  Its initiative Pakistan National Youth Service Program (PNYS), has reached 7,000 youth and adults

•  With 800 youth service volunteers,

•  YES Pakistan is currently piloting an ICT system that will connect service volunteers in different districts with each other. The system will foster collaboration, communication, and resource-sharing.

The Fund Reproductive Health & HIV/Aids

YES Tanzania Network Making HIV/AIDS Education a Profession

With its partners, PAMOJA TUJIKINGE NA UKIMWI (PATUU) a NGO based in Dodoma region this program has

•  taught 10,500 primary school and 2,512 secondary school students.

•  trained 156 traditional birth attendants, 56 traditional healers, and 40 volunteers in HIV prevention.

•  established eight reproductive health centers. •  reached 36,045 people to date.

4. YES Background Information

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The Fund The YES Framework for Action

Employability

Equity

Entrepreneurship

Empowerment of Youth

Employment Generation

Environmental Sustainability

The Fund Closing

Each and everyone of us must assume a personal responsibility to embrace a new spirit of global collaboration for building secure communities full of productive work for young people. For any one of us to succeed we must all succeed as ONE world.

President William J. Clinton, Co Chair

1st Global Youth Employment Summit

Alexandria, Egypt

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