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Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability


Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (YES) is an international non-profit dedicated to fighting poverty through large-scale job creation and entrepreneurship for youth. YES is located out of Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

The Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign is a civil society response to the enormous global challenge of youth unemployment. The Campaign was formally launched at the first Youth Employment Summit in September 2002, in Alexandria, Egypt. Co-chaired by former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, this first Summit was attended by over 1600 delegates from 120 countries.

The YES Campaign has overseen the formation of youth-led networks in over 55 countries. These networks liaise with stakeholder groups (government, business, academics, NGOs, and UN agencies) to develop programs and policies for promoting youth employment.Through the networks, the YES Campaign plans, implements, and evaluates projects around the globe, keeping youth at the center of its efforts. The YES Campaign:

By enlisting youth participation in creating viable employment alternatives in their home countries, the YES Campaign has validated the concept that young people, if given access to the right resources, can effectively craft their own opportunities for advancement and growth in labor markets while simultaneously addressing development needs.

The YES Campaign works on behalf of millions of young people in the world who are clamoring for a better future and an opportunity for productive work. Young people are cognizant of the inequities of the global system, and are susceptible to association with the negative forces in their communities if help does not come their way. This initiative offers youth a chance to participate in a global campaign to make a difference in their countries and communities.

Target population: YES Campaign has taken the Commonwealth Secretariat's age group for youth, 14–35 years.

In 1998 Youth Employment Summit (YES) was launched as a project of Education Development Center (EDC), an international, non-profit that manages over 400 projects all over the world, dedicated to enhancing learning and promoting health. The YES Campaign was launched in 2002, by 75 Ministers and over 1,600 delegates, youth leaders, UN agencies, and NGOs government officials from 120 countries at the 1st Global YES summit held at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt. The summit paved the way for a 10-year program designed primarily to place the issue of youth employment on the global agenda, develop and support in-country YES networks led by youth, design replicable youth-led entrepreneurship and employment generation programs, build youth capacity through training, and support in-country coalitions to develop national youth employment strategies.


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