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SUMMIT
AGENDA
| Creating
Markets…Unleashing Entrepreneurship AGENDA
FOR YES Kenya 2006 |
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The Agenda for the YES Kenya 2006 includes the following:
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Plenary Sessions:
1. Opening Ceremony
2. YES Campaign Works! Methodology and Grassroots Action…meet the leaders
3. Creating Markets…Unleashing Entrepreneurship a workable approach
4. Building Trade Capacity and Attracting Foreign Direct Investment
5. Building Sustainable Livelihood Programs
6. Building an Entrepreneurial Culture... Stand Up Against Poverty: Bringing the power of youth to achieving the MDGs
7. Closing Ceremony
- Breakout
Sessions (for Plenary 2) on Creating Markets…Unleashing Entrepreneurship
in 5 Emerging Employment Sectors for Youth and Others:
B1. Renewable Energy
B2. Water and Sanitation
B3. On-Farm and Off-Farm Enterprises
B4. Information and Communication Technologies
B5. HIV/AIDS
B6. Youth in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
B7. Building Youth Leadership
B8. Youth Empowerment
- Breakout
Sessions (for Plenary 3 & 4) on Building Trade Capacity and Attracting Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) and Developing Large Scale Labor Intensive Employment
Programs
B9. Capacity Building by YES Networks (Plenary 3)
B10. Preparing Youth for the Labor Market (Plenary 3)
B11. Africities: Role of Local Government in Youth Employment Creation (Plenary 3)
B12. FDI and Information and Communications Technologies (Plenary 3)
B13. Optimizing Youth Employment in Infrastructure Building Projects (Plenary 4)
B14. Equipping Youth from Countries in Conflict with Employability Skills (Plenary 4)
B15. Skills for Employability - Vocational Training, Service Programs, and others (Plenary4)
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Breakout Sessions (for Plenary 5) on Building an Entrepreneurial
Culture
B16. Promoting Micro Investment
B17. Business Development Services
B18. Mentoring
B19. Micro Enterprises
B20. Equipping Youth with Entrepreneurship Skills
B21. Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Employment
B22. The Gender Dimension of Entrepreneurship
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Parallel Sessions on Philanthropy and Investment in Youth
Employment
P1. Multilateral Agencies Investing in Youth Employment
P2. Donors Commitment to Promoting Youth Employment
P3. Youth Employment: A Private Sector Imperative…Focus on CSR
P4. YES Fund – Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship
P5. Kenya Youth Enterprise Fund
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Parallel Sessions on Innovations in Development
P6. The Youth Employment Network
P7. Safer Cities and Youth - employment strategies for urban youth, slum dwellers and migrant youth
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Capacity Building Workshops
W1. Workforce Development Models for Marginalized Youth
W2. Policy Advocacy
W3. Innovative Eco-Enterprises for Rural and Urban Youth: Latest in Programming and Business Ideas
W4. Visioning a Joyful and Sustainable Future…Hubs for Employment
W5. Bank of I.D.E.A.S. for Community-based Enterprises
W6. Trade: African Market Access…Establishment of Value Added Industries
W7. Attracting Foreign Direct Investment for Building Tourism and Youth Employment
W8. Mobilizing Against Poverty and Inequality: GCAP and Youth Employment
W9. Building Sustainable Livelihood Programs.
Wednesday September 13, 2006
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Opening Ceremony
Room Number:
Poonam
Ahluwalia, Executive Director of YES
Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of
UN-Habitat
Luther Luedtke, President and CEO of EDC
Emmanuel Dennis, Coordinator,
YES Kenya
Hon. Dr. Mohamed Abdi Kuti, Minister of State for Youth Affairs
Dr. Salam Z. Ali Al-Zoba'e, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
H.E. Mwai Kibaki,
President of Kenya
Session Coordinator: John Burugu
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11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Plenary 1: YES Campaign Works! Methodology and Grassroots Action…meet the leaders
Room Number:
Description: Over the course of the last four years (2002 – 2006) the YES model – of building local capacity and working together with diverse stakeholders has proven to be extremely powerful. Leadership of youth is at the center of this very hopeful Campaign. In this session you will learn about the close partnership of YES and YEN. And the different ways in which the YES model works- in partnership with donors such as GTZ and the Government (Kenya); developing effective State Level Networks (India); strengthening Regional Cooperation (Latin America).
Session Chaired by: Poonam Ahluwalia, Executive Director of YES
Members
of the panel:
Regina Monticone, Secretary of the Youth Employment Network
David Mshila, Team Leader/Advisor for the GTZ Prosyr Project
Emmanuel Dennis,
Country Coordinator for YES Kenya
Praveen Kumar Prithvi, Country Coordinator
for YES India
Dacil Acevedo Riquelme, Regional Coordinator for Latin America
of YES
Session Coordinator: Hope Muli
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2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Plenary 2: Creating Markets…Unleashing Entrepreneurship a workable approach
Room Number:
Description: With the world youth population over 1 billion, 85 percent in developing countries, and hardly any growth in jobs in private and public sectors it is essential to understand how employment will be created for these youth and the 1.5 billion children behind them waiting to flood the labor markets. The only hope for absorption is in the enterprise development sector. The Bottom of the Pyramid model is clearly very inspiring – 4 billion people at the bottom that require goods and services – clearly a market for unleashing entrepreneurship. In this session you will understand this model and also hear about the market for renewable energy products, information and communications technologies, how the UN intends to work with the private sector in the BOP model for development and how YES Mexico has created almost 2000 new businesses over the past 4 years.
Session
Chaired by:
Koosum Kalyan, Sr. Business Development Advisor for Shell International
Members
of the panel:
Nick Moon, Co-Founder of KickStart
Cheick Diarra, Africa
Chair for Microsoft
Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Deputy Resident Representative
for UNDP Kenya
Samuel Gonzalez, Country Coordinator for YES Mexico
Session Coordinator: Sam Gakunga
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4 :30 – 6:00 p.m.
8 Breakout Sessions on Creating Markets…Unleashing Entrepreneurs in Emerging Employment Sectors for Youth
Breakout 1: Renewable Energy
Room Number:
Description: With 2 billion people in the world without access to clean energy - renewable energy presents unique and real opportunities for youth entrepreneurship. In this session YES Network coordinators will share how they promote youth-led renewable energy enterprises, which produce and sell goods and services to markets in off-grid areas.
Chaired by: Charles Gacheru, Kenya Branch Manager for Freeplay Eenergy
Speakers:
Prof. M.N. Reddy, Swamy Ramananda Rural Institute
Daniel Semakula, Country
Coordinator for YES Uganda
Macumu Pierre, Country Coordinator for YES Burundi
Session Coordinator: Fred Ouko
Breakout 2: Water and Sanitation
Room Number:
Description: With 2.5 million people living without adequate water and sanitation which causes among many other ills, harm to the health and well being of our brothers and sisters, it is essential to promote an enterprise driven approach for provision of sustainable water and sanitation systems. Many countries have developed innovative models to bring water and sanitation to needy areas. YES promotes a enterprise driven model to meet this demand by training youth in the skills required to increase water access in the developing world. In this session you will hear from Acumen Fund about their entrepreneurial model, from UN Habitat about urban water and sanitation and from the YES Networks about their work in this field.
Speakers:
Kojo Parris, Africa Director for the Acumen Fund
James Ohayo, UN Habitat
Dulal Biswas, Country Coordinator for YES Bangladesh
Samkeliso Simelane, Country
Coordinator for YES Swaziland
Session Coordinator: Teddy Malaki
- Community
based Intervention on Health and Water Sanitation
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Richard John
Breakout 3: On-Farm and Off-Farm Enterprises
Room Number:
Description: Over 60 percent of the world lives in rural areas, where youth need local employment opportunities to build communities and stem migration. It is essential to support value-added production, agro-business, co-operatives etc. In this session we will hear about how in Zimbabwe rural populations have been organized, the value of ecological design for farming, mushroom cultivation in remote areas, about integrated energy-fertilizer-feed-material generation for sustainable eco-farming and how the YES Networks have promoted entrepreneurship in rural areas.
Chaired by: Sithembiso Nyoni, President and Founder of ORAP
Speakers:
Nick Moon, KickStart (invited)
Margaret Tagwira, Zimbabwe
Emmanuel Edudzie,
Country Coordinator for YES Ghana
Session Coordinator: Desmond Boi
- The
Potentials of the Internet in Improving Agricultural Production and Marketing
skills for Small -Scale Farmers in Developing Countries: A case of the Zambia
Rural Initiative Pilot Project.
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Precious Hamukwala - On-Farm
and Off-Farm Enterprises
BY
Beatrice Mwaura - The
Barriers To Be Crossed In Making Farming An Attractive Enterprise For The Rural
Poor In Nigeria- The Case Of Poor Men And Women In Imo State
BY
Dr. Olufunso Adeola Olajide -
Enhancing
the Productive Capacity of Rural Youth in Agriculture, Environment and Natural
Resource Management towards Employment Creation in Kenya: Experiences from Kenya
Rural Youth Livelihood Strategies Programme (KERYLIP) Pilot Project in Nyando
District-Nyanza Province of Kenya
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Odeny Odhiambo - Rural
Assistance Project
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Hamideh Tabatabaie
Breakout 4: Information and Communication Technologies
Room Number:
Description: Barely 2 percent in the world have Internet access. In more than 80 countries there are fewer than 10 telephone lines for every 100 inhabitants. The present inability of many developing countries to utilize the potential of ICT has caused a widening global technology gap. Unprecedented opportunities for youth entrepreneurship therefore continue to exist in this sector. YES networks are implementing projects to increase ICT literacy and foster youth led ICT-growth in the developing world. In this session you will hear how Microsoft intends to bridge the gaps, how Netcorps (created in the model of Peace Corps) is supporting digital opportunity, how local NGO Partners for Progress is transforming the landscape for IT education and employment and how with the support of Microsoft – YES Peru is building an IT culture.
Chaired by: Jennifer Corriero, Co-Founder of TakingITGlobal
Speakers:
Marc Lepage, Regional Director for Africa and Middle East for Digital Opportunity
Trust
Lucy Kirimi, Director of Partners for Progress
Alejandro Juarez
Velarde, Country Coordinator for YES Peru
Session Coordinator: Paddy Mwangi
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E-Enterprise
and Youth Employment
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Aboubakry LY - Developing
Interest on Agriculture and ICT among Young people through Livelihood programmes
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Adedeji Adegoriola A. - The
Information and Communication Technologies Sector
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Becky Wachera
Breakout 5: HIV/AIDS
Room Number:
Young adults account for half of some 5 million new infections. YES Campaign staff has worked with the USAID-funded program Equip 3 in Southern Africa to prepare a livelihoods based strategy for prevention. In addition as the number of worldwide HIV/AIDS infections steadily climbs toward 45 million, many YES networks are dedicating considerable effort to train youth as health professionals, and looking for a livelihood based approach for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Chaired by: Richard Mabala, Chief, Youth, Protection and HIV/AIDS Section for UNICEF Ethiopia
Speakers:
Charles Weja, Tanzania
Claudia Vanessa Siliezar Turcios, Country Coordinator
for YES Honduras
Yamuna Pathak, Coordinator for YES Andhra Pradesh
Session Coordinator: Jane Bisanju
- Peer
Support Mechanisms as a means of engaging youth in sustainable activities and
HIV/AIDS prevention
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Olushola Olukayode Ajayi - Building
the competence of youth on sustainable Livelihood Skills and HIV/AIDS prevention
(wealth creation)
BY
Okoro Onyebuchi Desmond - Impact
of Awareness Campaign on HIV/AIDS by ICHAP: A Case Study of Urs at Ajmer
BY
Dr. Divya Singhal - Pastoral
Activities and Services for People living with HIV/AIDS (PASADA) in the archdiocese
of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BY
Charles F. Weja - Aids
Based New Rural Markets
BY
Dr. D. Ilangovan - Factors
influencing effective HIV mainstreaming in Addis Ababa education system
BY
Nega Assefa
Breakout 6: Youth in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Room Number:
Description: Without peace there can be no sustainable and productive employment. With seven YES Country networks in high conflict zones YES is dedicated to addressing the specific needs of youth coping with the physical and psychological impact extreme conflict. In this session you will hear about efforts in Afghanistan, DRC, and Rwanda.
Chaired by: Khaleda Atta, Commercial Attaché for Embassy of Afghanistan (invited)
Speakers:
Jules Ramazani Abedi, Country Coordinator for YES DRC
Frank Mukama, Country
Coordinator for YES Rwanda
Omar Mansoor Ansari, Country Coordinator for YES
Afghanistan
Session Coordinator: Ajmal Pashtoonyar, UNDP
- Elif
Youth Employment Creation 2006 Initiative
BY
Edwin Zulu Elif
Breakout 7: Building Youth Leadership
Room Number:
Description:
At the center of the YES model is youth leadership and it is rightly believed
that equipped with the right skills and networks youth will work towards the sustainable
development of their countries. The YES Campaign prioritizes capacity building
programs that focus on informal education, entrepreneurial mentorship, and leadership
development. In this session you will learn about GYAN which is a global youth
action network, about young people who are passionate about causing transformation
in Africa, about how important it is to create a socially entrepreneurial leadership
peer-group in the world and how educated youth are being supported to build their
employability skills.
Chaired by: Benjamin Quinto, Executive Director
for Global Youth Action Network
Speakers:
Kepta Ombati, Chief Executive for Youth Agenda Africa
AIESEC (invited)
Session Coordinator: Opimbi Osore
- Youth
Entrepreneurs in Orissa, India
BY
Sachidananda Satapathy PhD
Breakout 8: Youth Empowerment
Room Number:
Description: The 6th E of the YES Framework for Action talks about Empowerment as the quintessential force for causing transformation. The YES Campaign’s efforts to provide youth a branded platform from where they can speak powerfully, take appropriate action, and inspire belief, has had a catalytic impact all over the world, and has made the YES Campaign the largest global youth development movement in the world. In this session you will learn how the YES leadership has worked to empower youth in their countries and in their communities.
Chaired by: Ali Raza Khan, Country Coordinator for YES Pakistan
Speakers:
Kaitlyn
Olson, Country Coordinator for YES USA
Graciano Baillard, Country Coordinator
for YES Dominican Republic
Gathecha Kamau (invited)
Session Coordinator:
Emma Njoki
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Potential
of Biotechnology in Economic Development and Job Creation for the Youth
By
Chekai Khisa Eliud
Thursday September 14, 2006
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Plenary 3: Building Trade Capacity and Attracting Foreign Direct Investment
Room Number:
Description: In this globalized world it is essential that all countries be equipped to take advantage of the ‘globalization dividend’ in the form of building their capacity to trade with world class goods and services, and also to work towards attracting Foreign Direct Investment. In this session you will hear about the impact of the work of UNIDO is producing world class products in developing countries and building their private and trade sector. You will also learn about the initiative being presented to WTO on Aid for Trade. This session will also highlight how the low Africa Regional intra-trade is impacting its share of the global GDP (example Africa has 13 percent of global population and only 2-3 percent of Global GDP), and a focus on domestic savings – while attracting FDI. Lessons from Kenya and India in building trade and attracting FDI will be shared.
Session Chaired by: Kandeh Yumkella, Director General for UNIDO (invited)
Members
of the panel:
Nelson Ndirangu, Permanent Mission of Kenya to the UN in Geneva
Joel Chimhanda, Founder of JC Capital
Hon. Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Minister of
Trade and Industry, Kenya
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, India
Session Coordinator: Sam Gakunga
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11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Parallel Sessions on Philanthropy and Investment in Youth Employment
Parallel 1: Multilateral Agencies Investing in Youth Employment
Room Number:
Description: Promoting youth employment will need investment at many different levels. One of the most important actions being how the multilateral agencies will help tackle this issue, and how they will work to engage young people as partners and not as beneficiaries. This session will discuss the trends and commitment of multilateral agencies, to this issue. Currently, over 30 YES networks have forged formal relationships with such institutions and, as we move ahead, we must strive to further strengthen that commitment.
Chaired by: Heimo Laakkonen, UN Resident Coordinator for Kenya
Speakers:
Rupert Maclean, Director of UNESCO-UNEVOC
Hopolang Phororo, Youth Employment
Specialist for Regional Office for Africa of ILO
UN-Habitat (invited)
David
Ombisi, Program Officer for Regional Office for Africa of UNEP
UNIDO (invited)
Rachael Wambui Kungú, YES Kenya Provincial Coordinator Central Province & Director
Youth Philanthropist
Session Coordinator: Juma Assiago
Parallel 2: Donor Commitment to Promoting Youth Employment
Room Number:
Description:Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors have committed to providing up to 1 percent of their GDP to aid for development. This is a very important resource for funding employment programs in developing countries. But it is essential for these donors to recognize the devastating impact of youth unemployment and to work towards placing the youth employment issue as one of their strategic objectives to fund. For many YES networks, donors have been important to their success. With some 14 foreign government aid agencies sponsoring YES efforts worldwide, as well as many Regional Banks and Foundations, YES must continue to find willing organizations for funding and other support. This session will discuss the role donors could play in YES activities, as well as how to get them involved. You will hear how SIDA was the first YES donor, how GTZ supported the YES Kenya Network and how other DAC donors are including YES activities or youth employment in their agenda.
Chaired by: Bo Goransson, Swedish Ambassador
Speakers:
Edgar Thornton, USAID
Klaus v Mitzlaff, Country Director for GTZ Kenya
Ines Islamshah, SDC Kenya (invited)
Patricia Zakaib, CIDA (invited)
Marcelo
Cavalcanti, General Director of the Artemisia Foundation
Session
Coordinator: Daniel Malange
Parallel 3: Youth Employment: A Private Sector Imperative...Focus on CSR
Room Number:
Description:In a world where entrepreneurship has to be the main vehicle for providing youth with productive work…engaging the private sector becomes a big priority. In addition for the private sector to look good and not only appear as a profit-maker, they have introduced the powerful concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In this session the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) is bringing powerful CEOs to share their commitment to CSR and to including youth employment programs as part of their work.
Speakers:
Samuel Mwaura Waweru, CEO of Kenya Private Sector Alliance
Hope Muli, Communications
and Liasion Coordinator for YES Kenya
Session Coordinator: Emma Njoki
Parallel 4: YES Fund- Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship
Room Number:
Description: We know that there are not enough jobs in public and private sectors. And therefore it is essential to create an industry that will fuel entrepreneurship development. This session will discuss one of the YES Campaign's most exciting new initiatives: the YES Fund, which will conduct two main activities - run business plan competitions and support selected youth entrepreneurs with seed funding, mentors and other business development services; and build local capacity in participating YES countries to prepare for these business plan competitions which will include activities such as training, development, identifying markets, preparing business plans etc.
Speakers:
Poonam Ahluwalia, Executive Director for YES
Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser,
CEO of GEXSI
Regional Director, Microsoft (TBA)
Pauline Miriti, YES Kenya
Provincial Coordinator for Rift Valley Province
Session Coordinator:
Parallel 5: Kenya Youth Enterprise Fund
Room Number:
Description:In Kenya there are three very exciting things happening in conjunction with hosting the YES Kenya 2006. One, a new Youth Ministry has been formed and is already making its mark in the country, two, the YES Kenya Network is maturing and coming of age and has shown resilience and fortitude, in addition to having the multiple skill sets needed to plan and organize the Summit, the third, and one which brings the two together with the private sector is the Kenya Youth Employment Fund. This will work to initially support existing businesses run by young people who have the ability and product to be successful but not the financial resources. And then it will branch into other products. In this session you will learn about this innovative public-private initiative being launched in Kenya.
Speakers:
Hon. Amos Kimunya, Minister of Finance, Kenya
James Mwangi, CEO of Equity
Bank Limited
Muratha Kinuthia, NEPAD Kenya
Janet Wamuyu, YES Kenya Focal
Person for Transmara and Environs
Session Coordinator: Sunita Kapila
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2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
8 Breakout Sessions on Building Trade Capacity and Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Developing Large Scale Labor Intensive Employment Programs
Workshop 1: Workforce Development Models for Marginalized Youth
Room Number:
Description: This workshop will examine effective workforce development models serving marginalized youth in the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States. Participants will learn how these models work, how they differ, what they have in common and how they achieve the same goals using different approaches. This session will also equip participants with guidelines on how they can develop adaptive programs based on the presentation of this workshop for their own countries.
Facilitators:
Jose de Olivares, Alternate Perspectives
Jennifer Wild, Alternate Perspectives
Session Coordinator: Daniel Mangale
- Building Trade Capacity-Fundamentals
- Fairtrade Standards
- Fairness Defined
- Choice
- Beyond Economic Analysis to Fairness
- Agriculture Agreement
- Why Agro-Trade is the Key to Agriculture
- Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
- Foreign Direct Investment Strategy for Business
- Foreign Direct Investment Strategy for Renewable Energy
- FDI In India
- Indian FDI Policy_Example For Others
- Shanghai's Scientific Strategy To Expand FDI
- FDI Through Diaspora
- FDI In Indian Tourism
- FDI In Caribbean Tourism
- FDI For Tourism Outreach Tanzania
Breakout 9: Capacity Building of YES Networks (Plenary 3)
Room Number:
Description: For programs and action to take place a number of things have to be in place – first the recognition that the issue is important and YES does this through its Summits, workshops, publications discussion lists etc.; second, there should be information available in useable formats and YES does that through its web-based Global Knowledge Resource and its Learning Summits. And the final frontier is to build capacity in developing countries to take appropriate and thoughtful action. This session will discuss the ways in which YES Networks work to increase their capacity, allowing them to undertake increasingly far-reaching and intensive projects. As YES networks build their capacity, their geographical reach often extends past national borders, leading to regional cooperation. You will learn why this model is so effective and has such a powerful impact.
Chaired by: Irungu Houghton, Oxfam GB
Speakers:
Jacques Lius Manuel Nginga, Country Coordinator for YES Angola
Audrey Codera,
Country Coordinator for YES Philippines
Mirian Nunez, Country Coordinator
for YES Paraguay
Session Coordinator: Fred Ouko
Breakout
10: Preparing Youth for the Labor Market
(Plenary 3)
Room Number:
Description: With over 600 million youth in the labor market and not in the productive workforce it is essential to understand how this problem will be resolved. This problem will not go away, it will only increase as more and more youth get poured into the labor market without being equipped with the skills and knowledge to be competitive for jobs or prepared for entrepreneurship. This session you will hear about the different ways in which the YES networks worldwide work to prepare youth for the labor market. Over the last four years, some 300 of the 400 programs organized by YES have belonged to this category, building the individual capacity of youth. These include training, mentoring, and other skill development initiatives. Also discussed will be the types of jobs available to youth and the training offered by other leading organizations.
Chair: Chief Secretary, State of Mizoram
Speakers:
Rebecca Karanja, Africa Recruit
Sarah Whittemore, YES Partnerships Coordinator
Ciré Kane, Synapse Center
Session Coordinator: Bani Orwa
- Rising
employment opportunities for the youth in Central Asian countries through skills
development and promotion of interaction of education system and labor market.
(By the example of Uzbekistan)
BY
Alisher R. Juraev - Labour and Social Issues Emerging from Vietnam's Accession to the WTO
Breakout 11: Africities: Role of Local Government in Youth Employment Creation (Plenary 3)
Room Number:
Description: In this session, Africities, an African organization that strives to build joint actions for the effective realization of the Millennium Development Goals in African Local Governments, will discuss the pivotal role of local government in youth employment creation. Whether in the form of strategic partnerships, of program specific support, or of policy work, government alliances are key to the success of YES. In addition you will hear from the YES Network in Brazil its success with working with the local government.
Chaired by: David Kithakye, Senior Human Settlements Officer, UN-HABITAT
Speakers:
Marcelo Costa, Country Coordinator for YES Brazil
Prof Jossy Materu,
Africities Secretariat
Alioune Badiane, Director, Regional Office for Africa
and Arab States, UN-HABITAT
Daniel Ngari, Department of Social Services, City
Council of Nairobi
Session Coordinator: Juma Assiago
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The
Youth As An Underutilised Resource In Kenya: The Case Of Malindi-Kenya
BY
Samson Ngengi Njuguna - AIESEC
Kenya Empowering Africa Programme Young Africa Entreprenuers project
BY
Japhet Edward Miano Kariuki
Breakout 12: FDI and Information and Communications Technologies (Plenary 3)
Room Number:
Description: In order to really create the infrastructure for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) real investment is needed. To burden developing countries with more debt (especially in Africa) may not be the most productive way to create ICT capacity. Therefore a private sector approach is needed by building capacity of local private sector to work with international companies and attract FDI. With the right policies and private sector investment this FDI approach maybe one of the most effective ways to build ITC capacity and create opportunities for IT employment and enterprise. In this session you will learn about how a company in India became the largest education, training and enterprise development company in India – now spanning more than 50 countries in its scope. Microsoft will share how it would like to invest in building ICT capacity in African countries and we will hear about how Africa Online gained foothold and its expansion plans.
Chaired by: P. Rajendran, COO of NIIT
Speakers:
Heba Ramzy, Citizenship & Community Affairs Reginal Manager for Microsoft,
Middle East & Africa
Suhayl Esmailjee, Head of Pan-Africa Business for
Africa Online Kenya
Cheikhou Thiome, Country Coordinator for YES Senegal
Session Coordinator: Sam Gakunga
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Optimizing
Youth Employment Through FDI In Retail In India
BY
Prof. Gan Bhukta -
Examining
the cultural obstacles to the use of E-commerce in SMEs of Iran
BY
Hamideh Tabatabaie
- Digital Divide Report
Breakout 13: Optimizing Youth Employment in Infrastructure Building Projects (Plenary 4)
Room Number:
Description: One of the major activities in almost all developing countries is building there physical infrastructure. What is so often forgotten is the human resource infrastructure and therefore such building programs should be opportunities to train and develop young people’s employability skills. There are many ways in which young people can be trained and employed in such projects. In this session you will hear about public – private partnerships for infrastructure development and how they can be huge opportunities for youth employment.
Chaired
by: Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, India
Speakers:
Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song, Department of Public Works for Government of South Africa
David Woollcombe, President of PeaceChild International
Didibhuku Wellington
Thwala, Senior Lecturer of University of Johannesburg
Session Coordinator: Angela Kabiru
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Optimizing
Youth Employment In Infrastructure Investments
BY
David Woollcombe -
Employment
Creation through the use of Labour-Intensive Methods in South Africa: Experiences
and Problems
BY
Wellington Didibhuku Thwala - The
Economic Returns To Investing in Youth In Developing Countries http://pier.econ.upenn.edu/WorkingPapers/Behrman.htm
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Recommendations
of the High-Level Panel on Youth Employment
http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/
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Employment-Intensive
Investment
http://djbs.itcilo.org - Notes
on the Nature and Extent of Employment Problems in Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.etf.europa.eu/
- Inter-Regional
Workshop on Employment-Intensive Investment Policies and Programmes-
Turin, Italy 17-21 October 2005
Breakout 14: Equipping Youth from Countries in Conflict with Employability Skills (Plenary 4)
Room Number:
Description: The problems that youth face in countries in the midst of conflict is heart wrenching. In such dire situations also we must keep our eye on the ball and ensure that action is still being taken to build the skills and capacities of youth. Countries in conflict inherently face numerous additional challenges in creating employment for youth. This session will discuss ways to provide youth with the necessary skills for employment despite this added difficulty. You will hear what the international NGOs are doing in the face of conflict and what the YES Networks in Iraq, Somalia and Sierra Leone are pursuing.
Chaired by: Lili Stern, International Rescue Committee
Speakers:
Basel A.W. Al-Azzawi, Chairman of Iraqi Commission for Civil Society Enterprises
Faiza Abdi, Country Coordinator for YES Somalia
James Hallowell, Country Coordinator
for Sierra Leone
Session Coordinator: Jane Bisanju
- Youth
Livelihoods in Conflict and Crisis
BY
Lili Stern - Youth
UnEmployment
www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-strateg-youth-overview.htm
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Is There A Youth Unemployment Crisis Regression Analysis of Youth Labour Market
Variables Policy Implications
www.fraserinstitute.ca -
Papers On Youth In Crisis (Canada Experience)
a. High-Level Panel Tackles Youth Employment crisis
b. Policy Implications
c. Regression Analysis of Youth Labour Market Variables
www.icrw.org
Breakout 15: Skills for Employability – Vocational Training, Service Programs, and others (Plenary 4)
Room Number:
Description: Employability is not only the gaining of formal skills – it is also the informal life –skills that round the individual and promote employability. Formal employment also requires a well-defined set of basic business skills. This session will discuss the various means – vocational training, service learning and other programs that builds the individual capacity of youth to be employable.
Chaired by: Magatte Wade, President Assemble General for AGETIP Senegal
Speakers:
Susan Stroud, Executive Director for Innovations in Civic Participation
Waleed
Sadek, National Youth Council of Egypt
Session Coordinator: Ann Wangondu
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Need For Skills And Vocational Training
BY
Dr. Martina - Engaging
Youth in Service: Toward an Alternative Large-Scale Youth Employment Strategy
BY
Charlotte McDowell - Mediterranean
Youth Club for Technology & Cooperation: An innovative model for integrating vocational
training with intercultural understanding
BY
Nell Derick Debevoise - Youth
Business Guidance Center (YBGC) Programme
BY
Joel Bayubasire -
Modern
Technologies for Massive Vocational Training for Empowering Rural Youth for Sustainable
Livelihood
BY
Prof. M.N. Reddy
- Skills
for Work in the Future: A Youth Perspective
BY
Bremley W. B. Lyngdoh -
ILO
Career Guidance Handbook
http://www.ilo.org/
- Core
Work skills
http://www.eonetwork.org
http://www.gladnet.org
http://www.ilo.org
- Human
Resources Development and Training
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2005-10-12a.34WS.4
- ILO's Skills and Employability Department
Friday September 15, 2006
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Plenary 5: Building an Entrepreneurial Culture… Stand Up Against Poverty: Bringing the power of youth to achieving the MDGs
Room Number:
Description: With hardly any expected growth in jobs in private and public sectors it is essential to look towards entrepreneurship as a means to productive work. With the world having made a commitment to the MDGs it is important for us to bring about an entrepreneurial culture to promote poverty eradication and the fulfillment of the MDGs. In this session you will hear from the UN perspective how this challenge will be met, how IYF in partnership with IADB developed one of the most successful grant program for entrepreneurship development, about an extraordinarily successful entrepreneurial venture in Kenya and what the YES Network in Senegal has done to meet this challenge.
Session Chaired by: Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign
Members
of the panel:
Patricia Langan, Director of the Alliance for African Youth
Employability for International Youth Foundation
Esther Passaris, CEO of
Adopt A Light
Benjamin Quinto, Executive Director of the Global Youth Action
Network
Ursula Carrascal, Communication and Project Coordinator for YES Latin
America
Session Coordinator: Pauline Mwangi
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11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Plenary 4: Developing Large Scale Labor Intensive Employment programs
Room Number:
Description: With millions of unemployed youth walking the streets it is essential that countries learn about the various methodologies for creating labor intensive employment. There are many different and successful models. In this session you will learn how in Colombia 12,000 hectares of savannah land was turned into a fully looped rain forest in 10 years with a full employment approach. We will also learn how the World Bank has directed its loan funding into initiatives that are promoting employment. The cooperative movement has been extremely successful in countries like India to promote an entrepreneurial model for large scale employment and you will learn about similar movements in Kenya.
Session Chaired by: Gunter Pauli, Founder & Director of the ZERI Foundation
Members
of the panel:
Michal Rutkowski, World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region
Hon. Dr. Newton Kulundu , E.G.H, Minister of Labor and Human Resource Development,
Kenya
Chido Govero
Session Coordinator: Angela Kabiru
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2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
8
Breakout Sessions on
Building an Entrepreneurial Culture
Breakout 16: Promoting Micro Investment
Room Number:
Description: So often when we think of investment we think big…but in a world where the new market (BOP) is the 4 billion who need to be served by goods and services we cannot do this by micro-credit alone. We need to be investing in micro-enterprises and this session will discuss essential that. The YES model calls for the promotion of entrepreneurship and self-employment. In order to achieve this, youth must receive micro-investment to fund viable business plans. This session will discuss ways to promote micro-investment in the developing world.
Chaired by: Federica Picchi, JP Morgan
Speakers:
Ingrid Munro, Managing Trustee for Jamii Bora Trust
Sudyumna Dahal, Country
Coordinator for YES Nepal
Honvou Tousiant, Country Coordinator for YES Benin
Session Coordinator: Edmond Murage
- Challenges
and future trends in Micro finance - case in India
BY
Nirja Mattoo
-
Appropriate Technology Micro enterprises
- Micro-Enterprise
Development
- Policies promoting Micro enterprises in Colonies
Breakout 17: Business Development Services
Room Number:
Description: Success in entrepreneurship depends on the viability of the business plan, the understanding of the marketplace and the support that a new venture needs to move into breakeven and then profit. Therefore in an era where business is the only way forward for providing young people with employment opportunities it is essential for all developing countries to develop the business development services industry. In this session you will hear about the extensive experience of Commonwealth Youth Program in this area, the entrepreneurship development services in Australia and the breakthrough work of YES Guyana.
Speakers:
Valencia Mogegeh, CYP Regional Centre for Africa
P.K. Joseph, YES Regional
Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific
Daren Torrington, Country Coordinator
for YES Guyana
Session Coordinator: David Mshila
-
Youth Economic Insecurity: Learning To Cope Through Business Development Services
BY
Bani Orwa - Strategy Note
Breakout 18: Mentoring
Room Number:
Description: An integral part of business development is the support that is given to new entrepreneurs, especially from other business leaders in the form of mentorship. There are many exemplary examples to learn from that work to provide all aspiring entrepreneurs with professional mentors in order to facilitate the business creation process. This session will discuss the impact and role of mentors in this process.
Speakers:
Mike Eldon, Member of Rotary Club of Kenya
Andrew Fiddaman, Director YBI for
the International Business Leaders Forum
Mahendranath Busgopaul, Country Coordinator
for YES Mauritius
Session Coordinator: Hope Muli
-
The
Micro Enterprise And Mentoring Initiative: A Case Of An Investment Company In
Kenya
BY
Kaguchia G. John, Mwaura Isaac, Martin Mbau, Paul Mugambi, MaryAnn Njambi & Margaret Gachina
- Coach,
Mentor: Is there a difference?
- Mentoring
Breakout 19: Micro Enterprises
Room Number:
Description: In creating an entrepreneurial culture micro-enterprises will be the key. Coupled with micro finance it is becoming a booming sector, with more and more international investors looking to put their money into micro enterprises in the developing world. This session will discuss the options that are available and viable for young entrepreneurs throughout the world.
Speakers:
Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser, CEO of GEXSI
Peter Kenyon, Director
of Bank of I.D.E.A.S.yit
Gisèle Yitamben, President of ASAFE
Session Coordinator: Charles Kahuthu
- Empowering
Women Through Micro-Enterprise Scaling Up
BY
Wamuyu Gikonyo, Zumilah Zainalaludin & Jariah Masud - Franchising
and its role in developing SMEs
BY
Marisa D. Pingkan & Bambang N. Rachmadi - What
is Microfinance
- When
Is Microcredit NOT an Appropriate Poverty Intervention Tool
- Why Do MFIs Charge High Interest Rates
Breakout 20: Equipping Youth with Entrepreneurship Skills
Room Number:
Description: The entrepreneurial culture that YES seeks to promote can be instilled in youth as part of their education. This session will discuss entrepreneurship education and its importance for youth in developing countries. In this session you will learn about the breakthrough work of Junior Achievement with youth in schools and from the other speakers you will learn about training for eco-entrepreneurship and the work of YES South Africa.
Chaired by: Margie Brand, Executive Director of EcoVentures International
Speakers:
Lamech Mbise, Vice President of JA Worldwide – Africa Region
Parasuraman
Nagappan, MSSRF
Kenneth Thlaka, Regional Coordinator for YES Southern Africa
Session Coordinator: Pauline Mwangi
- Youth
Entrepreneurship Initiative - YEI Program
BY
Ms.Kaanaeli Kaale & Anna Lyimo
- Participation
and Youth Employment Empowerment
BY
Frank P. Materu - Entrepreneurship
for the Youth of Ukraine
BY
Oleksandr Hontaruk
Breakout 21: Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Employment
Room Number:
Description: Social entrepreneurs transform the world with their energy, enthusiasm and initiative. They bring the same drive as business entrepreneurs but to the community development industry. This session will discuss the work of social entrepreneurs, defined as people who identify a social problem and use traditional entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. In fact, YES coordinators often belong to this category and can provide important input.
Chaired by: Jurgen Schwettman, Area Office Director for Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda for ILO
Speakers:
Monalisa Stefani, Director of Botique Solidária
Becky Wachera Gitonga,
Member of the Board of Directors for Ecosandals
Mouhamed A. Latif Mbengue,
Deputy Coordinator for YES Senegal
Session Coordinator: Virginia Onayara
-
What
is Service-Learning
- The
Six Models of Service-Learning
-
Goals
of Service-Learning
- Service-Learning Syllabi
Breakout 22: The Gender Dimension of Entrepreneurship
Room Number:
Description: In many countries, women are excluded from the majority of the most sustainable types of labor. Entrepreneurship provides a targeted way to empower women in an equal and valuable way. This session will discuss this gender-related dimension in the entrepreneurial sector.
Speakers:
Saskia Schellekens, Technical Support Division of UNFPA
Hamideh Tabatabaie,
Country Coordinator for YES Iran
Kossi Ogoubi, Country Coordinator for YES
Togo
Rodica Silvia Pop, Country Coordinator for YES Romania
Session Coordinator: Saida Ali
-
The
Gender Dimension of Entrepreneurship
BY
Beatrice Mwaura -
The
Gender Dimension of Entrepreneurship
BY
Nina Podoloskya -
Employment
Creation for Youth in Africa: The Gender Dimension
- International Finance Corporation
Workshop 2: Policy Advocacy
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Description: This workshop will examine the process of influencing policy makers in any society. Participants will learn how to assess the life-cycle and the dimensions of a policy issue and how to use that assessment to develop effective strategies and tactics to influence the decisions of policy makers.
Facilitators:
Jose de Olivares, Alternate Perspectives
Jennifer Wild, Alternate Perspectives
Session Coordinator: Fred Ouko
Saturday September 16, 2006
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Parallel Sessions on Innovations in Development
Workshop 3A: Innovative Eco-Enterprises for Rural and Urban Youth: Latest in Programming and Business Ideas
Room Number:
Description:
Speakers: Margie Brand, Executive Director of EcoVentures International
Session Coordinator: Grace
Parallel 6:The Youth Employment Network
Room Number:
Description: Following the Millennium Summit of 2000, the Youth Employment Network (YEN), whose core partners include the United Nations, the ILO, and the World Bank, was established to place the issue of youth unemployment on the global agenda. Today, YEN supports efforts in nineteen countries where it is committed to the development of policies to address youth unemployment. This session will discuss the work of YEN, as well as the emerging global partnership between YEN and YES.
Chaired by: Regina Monticone, Secretary of the Youth Employment Network
Speakers:
Donald Lee, Department of Economic and Social Affairs for the UN
Rajib Upadhya,
Senior External Affairs Specialist for World Bank Nepal (invited)
ILO (invited)
Hopolang
Phororo, Youth Employment Specialist for Regional Office for Africa of ILO (invited)
Session Coordinator: Phyllis Kagwiria
Workshop 4:Visioning a Joyful and Sustainable Future…Hubs for Employment
Room Number:
Description: This session will discuss the importance of protecting and restoring the environment as we develop and create new employment opportunities for youth. As one of the 6 Es that YES follows as part of its capacity-building, environmental sustainability is key to our success.
Speakers:
Debra Deanne Olson, President of The Global Green Company
Hanne Strong,
Founder and President of Earth Restoration Corp
Facilitator: Gesine Thomson, Visionary Architect and Founder of the World Consciousness Center
Session Coordinator:
Parallel 7: Safer Cities and Youth – employment strategies for urban youth, slum dwellers and migrant youth
Room Number:
Description: This session will discuss a variety of different employment strategies for urban youth, particularly the most marginalized groups. This population faces a very specific set of challenges and as such, requires appropriate and innovative solutions.
Speakers:
Mohamed Halfani, Chief, Urban Governance Section
Alioune Badine, Director,
Reginal Office for Africa & Arab States, UN-HABITAT
Ananthan Krishnan,
Chief, Partners & Youth Section, UN-HABITAT
Juan Antonio Contreras, DIF
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Anna Mtani, Safer Cities Coordiantor, Dar es Salaam
Joseph Ogidi, Street Expressions
John Muiruri, AMREF
Robert Njoroge, One
Stop Youth Information Resource
Session Coordinator: Juma Assiago, UN-Habitat
Workshop 5: Bank of I.D.E.A.S for Community-based Enterprises
Room Number:
Description:
Facilitators: Peter Kenyon, Director
Session Coordinator: Hellen Tombo
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11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Capacity Building Workshops
Workshop 3B: Innovative Eco-Enterprises for Rural and Urban Youth: Latest in Programming and Business Ideas
Room Number:
Description:
Speakers: Margie Brand, Executive Director of EcoVentures International
Session Coordinator: Pauline Mwangi
Workshop 6: Trade: African Market Access…Establishment of Value Added Industries
Room Number:
Description:
Facilitator: Joel Chimhanda, Founder of JC Capital
Session Coordinator:
Workshop 7: Attracting Foreign Direct Investment for Building Tourism and Youth Employment
Description: Global levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) climb dramatically every year and the challenge we now face is to spread its benefits. This session will discuss FDI processes, particularly the ways in which developing countries can attract it. FDI is defined as any long term investment by a foreign direct investor in an enterprise resident in an economy other that that in which that investor is based.
Facilitator:
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, India
Session Coordinator: Bani Orwa
Workshop 8: Mobilizing Against Poverty and Inequality: GCAP and Youth Employment
Room Number:
Description: In 2005, more than 36 million people around the world raised their voices and demanded action from world leaders on the three Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) White Band Days. Still, world leaders have yet to fully listen to the demands listed, and more action is needed in 2006-07 and beyond. The GCAP Children and Youth Task Force works for increased focus on education and youth employment as powerful tools to eradicate poverty and inequality.
Facilitator:
Vidar Ekehaug, MDG Coordinator for the Global Youth Action Network
Session
Coordinator: Josephine Gikuyu
Workshop 9: Creating Large Scale Labor Intensive Employment Programs
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Description: As our campaign enters a new phase and our networks have the capacity to organize and launch larger programs, it is important to discuss the ways to create large scale employment programs. The added difficulties of volume and monitoring require new approaches and skills to ensure efficacy and efficiency.
Facilitator:
Gunter Pauli, Founder and Director of the ZERI Foundation
Session Coordinator: Angela Kabiru
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2:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Closing Ceremony
Room Number:
Bo
Ekman, Tallberg Foundation
Luther Luedtke, President and CEO of EDC
Poonam
Ahluwalia, YES ED
Passing of the torch from Kenya to Host Country for 2008
Hon. Dr. Mohamed Abdi Kuti, Minister of State for Youth Affairs
H.E. Hon.
Dr. A.A. Moody Awori E.G.H. M.P, the Vice President and Minister for Home Affairs
Session Coordinator: John Burugu
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