EMPOWERING

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• EMPOWERING
• YOUNG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
• IN AFRICA

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• OR How can we make
• world changing
• COOL and
• VIABLE CAREER PATH
• for the YOUNG and CAPABLE?

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• How to turn people like this guy
• who might not really care about development.

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• Into some people who care and passionate
• perhaps through a bit of youth activism

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Building awareness, policy lobbying BUT too slow
and didnt really utilize youth power to the
fullest?
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• Ultimately to someone whose vision and
  commitment is fixed on
• CHANGING the world..

By being YOUNG SOCIAL ENTERPRENEURS
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The Evolution.
Build interest
Youth activism
Innovative actions
Innovative policy lobbying
Social entrepreneurship
Others stuff
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• Moving young people from naïve passion to
  commitment innovation.

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What is social enterprise?

• Social enterprises are organizations whose
  mission is to bridge social opportunity into
  sustainable reality innovatively, effectively and
  efficiently.
• Returns in economic, social and environmental
  return.

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Some young future shifters

• These people have shifted the future.
• Their innovative solutions to social problem have
  made a significant impact.
• They create value that made their life
  economically sustainable.
• They live a passionate, meaningful, and socially
  impactful life.

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Digital divide data (Cambodia)

• Mixed for-profit/non-profit model provides IT
  outsourcing services including data entry and
  document processing for US, European and local
  clients
• Employment and vocational training for 175 poor
  and disadvantaged youth disabled, orphans,
  trafficked
• Operations in Phnom Penh Battambang, Cambodia,
  and Vientiane, Lao PDR
• Annual revenue of US500,000

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Thai RuralNet

• Youth-driven development agency focused on
  developing scalable sustainable social
  innovations.
• Develop and distribute appropriate knowledge for
  sustainable agriculture to fight poverty in over
  rural 300 families.
• Especially in term of organic farming and food
  security.
• The model is replicated through out the poorest
  region of Thailand.
• Partnership to replicate in Africa/East Timor is
  in development.

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iVolunteer (India)

• iVolunteer, part of MITRA Technological
  Foundation, is a volunteering exchange, a
  platform that connects volunteers with
  volunteering opportunities in India and abroad.
• 2,500 volunteers placed
• Average of 120 volunteers per month
• Biggest number for volunteer placement agency in
  India.
• Indian volunteers take on the world!

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How to spin this off in Africa?

• THE DEMAN SIDE
• Provides youth with
• EXCITEMENT AND CONFIDENCE, arouse them with
  development challenges and how they can create
  innovative solutions.
• KNOWLEDGE on global issues, solutions and social
  entrepreneurship.Guides to innovative problem
  solving and enterprise planning.
• MENTORSHIP to help advise, discipline and connect
  them.
• COMMUNITY of young social entrepreneurs and
  supporters.
• FINANCE such as startup fund for innovative
  projects by young people.

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How to spin this off in Africa

• THE SUPPLY SIDE
• Making sure potential supporters such as donors,
  NGOs, scientific communities and private sector
  are aware and convinced that YOUTH SOCIAL
  ENTERPRISE is the key to the future of
  development innovations.
• - success cases
• - return/risk, cost-effectiveness dynamics
  studies
• - forum
• - commitment
• Young blood is needed in innovative development.

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They should feel like this.
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Stop, think..

• Think what can you do as an organizations to
  make this happen.. More importantly, what can you
  as a person?

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Dont just walk out

• Please do something, make this PERSONAL to you.
• Empowering African young social entrepreneurs
  start with you or it wouldnt happen, to you
  anyway.

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Can Y shift the Future?

• RETHINK WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
• IMPOSSIBLE IM POSSIBLE !!!

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Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI)
Empowering Young Future Shifters
Visit www.globalknowledge.org/ysei Or
www.futureshifters.net
Y S E I
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation