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In March 2005, Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki marked the official launch of the Third Global Youth Employment Summit YES Kenya 2006, when he received the Summit Torch. This torch is a symbol of hope. It traveled from Alexandria to Mexico and from Mexico to Kenya.

President Kibaki also launched a new Ministry of Youth Affairs and urged it to expedite efforts to bring together relevant line ministries, civil society organizations, development partners and the youth themselves in a new drive to unemployment.

Objectives of YES Kenya 2006

YES Kenya scheduled a four-day summit in September on the theme, Creating Markets…Unleashing Entrepreneurship. The meeting of the leaders of the 83 national networks is expected to draw more than 2,000 youth delegates from at least 120 countries. The agenda included talks on attracting more foreign direct investment, building core competencies for trade, and youth capacity building. Innovative policies, best practices and ideas will be shared drawn from all parts of the world and will be used to develop future collaborative action for employment generation. The summit will entail ministerial meetings, plenary sessions, open forums, workshops and skills development seminars. The event will be hosted by the Government of Kenya under the auspices of Ministry of Youth (Kenya). The Patron, President Mwai Kibaki, will open the Summit. Other high level guests will be the Minister for Youth Affairs, Mr. Mohammed Kuti, and the Minister for Labor, Mr. Newton Kulundu and UN-HABITAT Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka. Others include Prime Ministers of various countries, heads of community based organizations, UN Agencies and other multilateral bodies. The four-day Summit will be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) 13 - 16 September.

Strategy and approach

Building entrepreneurship through linkages with financing institutions and Funds – Funds for Youth Entrepreneurship. YES Kenya works to create markets and unleash entrepreneurship in the country by helping young people to identify business opportunities, prepare their business plans and compete for the best ideas. The fund supports young entrepreneurs to participate in the Business Plan competitions, which rewards winners with small-scale risk capital, start-up funding, credit and loan guarantees, and innovative business development services to start their businesses.
Building the capacity of the YES Country Networks as a means to generate an in-country infrastructure of youth-led networks to disseminate information, develop programmes, advocate innovative policies, and implement projects that promote youth employment and leadership. Currently there are YES Country Networks in all the 47 Counties at various stages of development. They will be given technical support through an Academy for Youth Social Entrepreneurship that will provide them with leadership and entrepreneurship training.
Organizing the Youth Employment Summits as means to continue to hold and maintain a focus on the issue of youth unemployment on the global agenda. Summits have been held in Egypt 2002, Mexico 2004, Kenya 2006, 2008 in Azerbaijan, YES Rework the World Sweden in 2010. At these summits the youth delegates meet with experts, donors, practitioners and other stakeholders to develop programmes and policies that will help build in- country capacity to provide the education, training and other services needed by young people to find productive work.
Academy for Youth Social Entrepreneurship, based at Cambridge College (Massachusetts), it is an international centre for engaging and inspiring young people to ‘be the change they want to see’. It takes the lessons learnt and the pathways unfolding through the work of the YES Campaign over the last 18 years, to become a leading programme for building the capacity of young people to be change agents. It aims to become a source for innovative and creative solutions for action in the social sector. All of the programmes offered have a theoretical and a project based approach to learning.
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