STATE OF THE FIELD IN YOUTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

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Table of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Annexes 2012 State of the Field in Youth Economic Opportunities World Economic Forum and OECD. (2011). Arab World Competitiveness Report 2011-2012. Accessible at: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AWC_Report_2011-12.pdf This joint Report is a contribution to understanding the key factors determiningfuture prosperity and economic growth in the Arab world at this criticaljuncture. In particular, it includes information on the employment challenges facing youth in the MENA region. It offers policymakers and business leaders an important tool informulating improved economic policies and institutional reforms. World Savings Banks Institute. (2011, June). WSBI Member Banks’ Experiences in the Field of Financial Education: Examples and Policy Views. Accessible at: http://www.yfslink.org/ resources/general-resources/copy7_of_emerging_guidelines World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI) shares examples and policy views on financial education and youth inclusion. Youth Business International. (2011, September). Youth Entrepreneurship: Closing the Gap. Accessible at: http://www.youthbusiness.org/media/publications.aspx Annexes This report compiles a series of case studies that each illustrates how the finance gap can be closed for young and other underserved entrepreneurs through providing non-financial support, such as training and mentoring. This integrated approach reduces the risk of lending to youth and other underserved demographics, and the value of the non-financial support substitutes for collateral and other types of guarantee. Six YBI case studies are featured and three from other sector leaders: International Youth Foundation (IYF), TechnoServe and Silatech. Youth Business International. (2010). Youth Entrepreneurship: The YBI Network Approach. Accessible at: http://www.youthbusiness.org/pdf/TheYB<strong>IN</strong>etworkapproach.pdf This publication presents how three YBI Network members in India, Canada, and Argentina are supporting young entrepreneurs and their lessons learned. This report aims to add to the body of knowledge of “what works” in supporting youth entrepreneurship. Youth Employment Network (YEN) & International Youth Foundation (IYF). (2009, July). Ghana and Senegal Study Findings: Private Sector Demand for Youth Labour in Ghana and Senegal. Accessible at: http://www.iyfnet.org/sites/default/files/psi_study.pdf In 2009, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) and the International Youth Foundation (IYF) conducted a study on private sector demand for youth labor in Ghana and Senegal, with support from the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Youth Employment. The study provides a situational analysis of youth employment in Ghana and Senegal, based on interviews of 300 firms in each country. The study investigates sectors with the highest employment potential for youth, employers’ perceptions related to hiring young people, minimum skills requirements, existing gender differentials in hiring practices, and existing interventions by businesses to promote youth employment. 204
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Annexes 2012 State of the Field in Youth Economic Opportunities Annex V: 2010-2012 Resources on Youth Economic Opportunities: Case Studies Al-Waell, Ammar., Al-Amal Microfinance Bank. (2011). YFS Case Study: First Middle Eastern Microfinance Bank Puts Youth First. Youth Inclusive Financial Services Link Program. Accessible at: http://www.yfslink.org/resources/case-studies/yfs-case-study-no.16-first-middle-easternmicrofinance-bank-puts-youth-first This case study features Al-Amal Microfinance Bank (Al-Amal), the first microfinance bank in Yemen, and discusses how it uses techniques for providing young people with appropriate financial services, including staff training and youth-friendly marketing and delivery channels. To date, Al-Amal has developed two youth-friendly products, Youth Fund (credit) and Child Savers (savings). Through slight adaptations to its product offerings, including collateral requirements and minimum balances, Al-Amal has quickly grown its reach to thousands of Yemeni youth. Arvelo, M., Gincherman, A., Kawas, R., Ruf, R., Slama, J., & Bedoya, C. (2010). Stemming the Tide of Mission Drift: A Case Study of ADOPEM. Women’s World Banking. Accessible at: http://www. swwb.org/sites/default/files/pubs/en/stemming_the_tide_of_mission_drift_a_case_study_ of_adopem_e.pdf This case study is about how one institution, ADOPEM (Dominican Republic), fared post-transformation, examining both the benefits and challenges of transforming. In particular, this case focuses on how Banco ADOPEM, as the transformed entity is called, has remained true to the founding mission of the organization to explicitly focus on women clients. As a regulated financial entity, the bank has been able to retain women as it grows. The specific strategies that Banco ADOPEM has followed to meet its dual objectives of serving its investors while retaining and expanding its women clients can serve as useful lessons to an industry that is increasingly grappling with the issue of mission drift. ADOPEM is also increasingly working with youth clients. Beekha, B., & Rimmington, M. (2011). Entrepreneurship as a career option for African youths. Journal of Development Entrepreneurship. 16(1), 145 – 164. Available for purchase at: http://www. worldscinet.com/jde/16/1601/S1084946711001707.html This paper presents findings from a pilot study of four African entrepreneurs new to established, all who started their business as young people. Their narratives, enhanced by the inclusion of significant events derived by the use of the critical incident technique, provide useful oral insights into their entrepreneurial heuristics and behavior. These reveal key influences and critical issues that affect the young African’s decision to start a business and perspectives into the nature of entrepreneurship in Africa. Dash, M., & Kuar, A. (2012). Youth Entrepreneurship as a way of boosting Indian Economic competitiveness: A Study of Orissa. International Review of Management and Marketing. 2(1), 10 -21. Accessible at: http://econjournals.com/index.php/irmm/article/view/97/89 This case study analyzes how youth entrepreneurship has played a part in boosting economic competitiveness and promoting regional development. Researchers surveyed and interviewed youth entrepreneurs in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, the twin cities of Orissa to study the factors contributing to the promotion of young entrepreneurs to start up their own enterprise, to find out the constraints that impedes and prospects that motivates the young people in starting and running a business and to assess the performance of the young entrepreneurs in Orissa. Annexes 205
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