10. 38 entries from 25 countries
Scoring from votes, judges and comments
Judged on project design, impact, replication
and innovation
3 finalists selected
Winner gets Smart Note and Cash Award
13. WHAT’S THE Innovation?
What’s the INNOVATION?
• Targeted support to underprivileged
entrepreneurs
• Linking student ideas to venture capital
• Affordable, professional business services for
young people
• Women can work from home
• IT system allows employers sufficient monitoring
of employees
• Working with government and social sector to
overcome traditions and cultural norms
16. WHAT’S THE Innovation?
What’s the INNOVATION?
• First website in Arab World dedicated to
recruitment of young women
• Women can work from home
• IT system allows employers sufficient
monitoring of employees
• Working with government and social sector to
overcome traditions and cultural norms
19. WHAT’S THE Innovation?
What’s the INNOVATION?
• Sustainability with small investment
• Hen as incentive to train in agribusiness,
financial management, entrepreneurship,
nutrition
• Savings and credit cooperative society owned
by youth
• Cottage industries around poultry production
Drew GardinerYouth Employment Network for the past 4 yearsI coordinate YEN’s Fund for Evaluation in Youth Employment and take care (quite poorly actually) of YEN’s communicationsAnd that there photo is the swing rope at Victoria Falls, by far the scariest thing I’ve ever done and will even do in life
This is the first time I’ve ever worn a tie at workI’ve never done a pechakucha presentation beforeI only found out yesterday I was doing a presentation so I stayed up till 3am preparingIf you see sweat running down my face or I pass out, please call for help
The Youth Employment Network (YEN) is a partnership of United Nations, International Labour Organization, and World Bank. YEN was created in 2001 to mobilize action on the commitment of the Millennium Summit for decent and productive work for young people. YEN is a global platform to prioritise youth employment on the development agendas and to exchange on policies and programs to improve employment opportunities for youth.
The overall goal of the Marketplace website is to globally reduce unemployment and underemployment among youth. We aim to do this by supporting the organizations and institutions that work in the field of youth employment. Although we also have some services that directly target young entrepreneurs, our priority is to strengthen the capacity of youth-serving organizations and improve the level of coordination and collaboration between them.
The Marketplace is a platform for youth employment stakeholders to find or exchange innovative ideas, expertise, advice and partnership. Launch of website: May 2012. The website is divided into three main sections each consisting of several services or tools:Partnerships: link up supply with demand. Offers from donors, technical assistance providers, consultants, training providers, mentors with requests from NGO funding, lack of expertise, business improvement, individual counsellingResources: What’s Works. Come here for ideas on successul and innovative youth employment models. You can also find experts on various topics with a focus on improving the institutional capacity of your organizationCommunity: link to other members, forum, working groups, peer review – submit draft project or business ideas and have them vetted by others in the community
This is really the core of the marketplace, the trading centre. A lot of youth organizations struggle because of dissymmetry of information. This is a one stop shop for opportunity for resources to make a organization sustainable. The aim of the Trading Centre is match making. This page brings together individuals and organizations working on youth employment. Users can post offers and requests for financial or in kind resources, toolkits, training materials etc.For example: Young Innovators Competition at ITU Telecom World 2012Young Innovators CompetitionAGFUND Awards
Our E-Coaching program matches experienced mentors to young entrepreneurs. Mentors receive training before they start and the Marketplace provides an online platform for communication. On this page, you can browse the available Coaches and Entrepreneurs and sign up for the program.An online collaborative tool for members to come together and work on specific topics. Members can join an existing group or form a new group on a specific topic or project. Includes communication and project management tools. The communication tools (blog, forum) keep you connected to your group members, and our project management tools (calendar, task manager, documents) will make planning easier.For example: Making a Business Plan (working group)
A competition to promote youth employment creation and create dynamic partnerships through the dissemination of good tested ideas and technologies. The Idea Lab is about taking innovative ideas that have already been implemented with great results, and adapting them to work in new and different places. For example: small business collecting and recycling plastic waste in Guinea.
A Smart Note is a short publication summarizing a successful project or approach and explaining why it was so successful. The winners of the What’s Working competition will be asked to produce a Smart Note and wins a cash award based on their entry to be published by YEN and our partners.Received 38 entries from 25 countriesVoting – all members of the Marketplace can vote on the project(s) they thing should win. You can encourage your friends and colleagues to join and vote to improve your chances.Comments – the number of comments received also counts. Try to create some buzz around your project to increase the number of comments.Judging – an independent judges panel will also evaluate the projets and contribute to the final ranking (Susana Puerto, Silvia Paruzullo, Sharon Kennedy)Three finalists have been selected and will be presented here today.Marks were given for Quality of project design, Results and Impact,Potential for replication and innovation
Started as student exchange between DRC and Sweden“Cloud” based technology consulting for young entrepreneursYouth Technology Accelerator is a free program of INFOGROUP INTERNATIONAL that provides youth, young innovators, and entrepreneurs, students from around the world mentorships to take their ideas to market and improve their chances of delivering a commercial and economic impact.
Studentswith innovative ideas join the 4 months program that help them build their startups and receive several exposure to the world investors network. Students are matched with successful mentors who provide distance advice, counseling and even business ideasMentorship includes creation of business plan, business pitch, business model generation, customer development, leveraging human capital, lean UX, fundraising, financial modelling, etc...
Mydoctor application is a mobile phone application that connect healthcare workers to patients, to provided a low-cost advanced medical consultationsa high resolution video, enable to send and receive X-ray image, Sms reminders , patients personal profile, Support biosensor to monitor vital health in real-time, Updating about diseases, and languages options. $100,000 venture investment
GCC: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab EmiratesMission:To help assist female talent in securing clear and concise careers across the region. Vision:To be the leading E-portal career gateway for females across the GCC region To exceed 5,000,000 CV’s & succeed in securing at least 50,000 jobs in the next 5 years.
We all know these images from Gulf countries of the Burka and the NiqabAn website where employers can post job opportunities for womenEmployersprefer to hire single women more than married women due to the fact there is a high risk in maternity leave from married women, they couldnt afford the extra cost due to the segregation labor law where companies would have to invest in seperate office space, amneties, security gaurdetc and thus couldnt afford it.we have helped create 2000 opportunities purely for women from over 140 different companies and institutes. weekly workshops on soft skills and partnering with international organizations to showcase their experience to our women and youth.
Innovation Empowerment Programme (IEP) was founded in the year 2009 by a group of 4 students from the University of Nairobi who were inspired from a study they had carried out on Entrepreneurship as part of class assignment- Challenges facing Entrepreneurs.seeks to empower economically women and youths who are in groups to alleviate poverty in our society. IEP advances a micro-loan in form of a hen and a cage to each member in registered women and youth group. After 6 months one surrenders 2 chicks (once) to the programme for onward lending to other groups and sustainability of the project. So far the project has benefited 1,000 people(Youths, women and people with disabilities).
Savings and credit: save one egg per week for three months, then can access loan of three time original investmentCottage: cage making, retail shops, barber and salon shopsThe demand for chickens is huge (no risk of market saturation)Final selection committee consisting of three senior Directors at YEN’s three partner organization will select the winning candidate
Our success depends on the participation of our members. If you want to help the Marketplace become a vibrant and valuable resource for youth employment practitioners, please become a member and stay active on the site. Some easy ways to do that are to read the blogs and post comments, contribute to the Forum, or sign up for a free webinar. You can also “like” us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest updates on our online competitions and the Trading Centre opportunities.For a deeper level of participation, you can join or create a Working Group. A Working Group is an online space for collaboration on a specific project or topic. It includes tools for communication and project management such as a group calendar, task manager, forum, and document library.Lastly, we need dedicated volunteers for certain services on the site. If you would like to apply to be an E-Coach, a Stall Manager, or a forum moderator, please contact the website admin.
