Global Fund of the Youth Employment Summit Campaign

1. The YES FUND
A Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship
Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh
Programme Manager
Youth Employment Summit Campaign

2. Table of Contents The Fund
1. The Twin Opportunities
2. The YES Campaign’s Solution
3. Sector Solutions
4. YES Background Information

3. The Fund
1. The Twin Opportunities

4. The Twin Opportunities The Fund
Developing countries currently face two sets of pressing problems:
Sector Development Needs Youth Unemployment
• Renewable Energy: 2 billion need • 1 billion young people between
energy
the ages of 15-24 years, 850
• Water & Sanitation: 2.5 billion people million of these are living in
lack access to clean water and
sanitation developing countries
• Rural Development: 60% of the • 1.5 billion children behind
developing world still live in rural areas them 85 percent in developing
• Information & Communication countries
Technologies: barely 2% of the world
population has internet access • 3 billion live on less than $1 a
• HIV/Aids: 95% of the estimated 38 day, 50 percent are young
million people infected with HIV live in people
developing countries
Imagine if we could solve both of these problems at once?

5. The Fund
2. The YES Campaign’s Solution

6. Introduction to the YES Campaign The Fund
• 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:
 YESLeadership 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.

7. The Evolution of the YES Campaign The Fund
1998 2002 2006 2008 2012
 Identify the  Support the • Pilot the YES • Replicate and
issues development of Fund – a global scale up
80+ YES fund for youth employment
 Build consensus Country entrepreneurship generation
 Generate ideas Networks
• Build Partnerships
programs
 Advocacy with • Create
leaders and
employment
institutions
generation
 Identify sectors models in YES
for employment Network
and doing pilot countries
work
• Build in-country
 Establish the self-reliance
YES Academy –
an international
R&D hub for
generating
employment
We have made great progress in building knowledge and infrastructure.

8. The 80+ YES Country Networks The Fund
…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!

9. YES Country Networks The Fund
*** Site of Regional Coordinator
Afghanistan Costa Rica Jamaica Peru
Angola Cote D'Ivoire Jordan Philippines
Argentina Democratic Republic Kenya Romania
Armenia of Congo Lesotho Russia
Australia Dominican Republic Liberia Rwanda
Austria Dubai Malawi Senegal
Azerbaijan Ecuador Malaysia Serbia & Montenegro
Bangladesh Egypt*** Mali Sierra Leone
Benin El Salvador Mauritius Singapore
Bhutan Estonia Mexico Slovenia
Bolivia Gambia Moldova Somalia
Botswana Georgia*** Mozambique South Africa***
Brazil Germany Namibia Sudan
Bulgaria Ghana Nepal Swaziland
Burkina Faso Guatemala Netherlands Tanzania
Burundi Guinea Bissau Nicaragua Togo
Cameroon Guyana Niger Uganda
Canada Haiti Nigeria United States
Chile Honduras Pakistan Uruguay
Colombia India*** Panama*** Zambia
Iran Paraguay Zimbabwe
Iraq

10. YES Global Activities The Fund
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.

11. YES Global Activities The Fund
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

12. The Fund
3. Sector Solutions our track record

13. Renewable Energy The Fund
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

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

15. Water & Sanitation The Fund
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.

16. Information Communication Technology The Fund
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.

17. Reproductive Health & HIV/Aids The Fund
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.

18. The Fund
4. YES Background Information

19. The YES Framework for Action The Fund
Equity
Employability Entrepreneurship
Employment Environmental
Generation Empowerment Sustainability
of Youth

20. Closing The Fund
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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