Umsobomvu Youth Fund

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• Umsobomvu Youth Fund

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History
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History
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Young people today

• Lack of skills that are in demand (both technical
  and life skills)
• Few employment opportunities in a slow economic
  growth environment. Despite large number of
  vacancies, the no of unemployed is still high
• Lack of access to finance for study and business
  purposes
• Lack of access to valuable economic information
  and counselling support regarding employment/
  self-employment and
• Access to basic health services and awareness
  regarding healthy living

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Strategic guiding principles

• Governments mandate
• Create a platform for job creation and skills
  development transfer for youth
• Strategic guiding principles
• Vision To enhance the active participation of
  youth in the mainstream economy
• Mission To facilitate and promote the creation
  of jobs and the development of skills for the
  South African Youth

Policy
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Strategic guiding principles

• Key Performance Areas
• Skills development
• Job creation
• Prudent resource management
• Communication of information
• Core competencies
• Co-ordinating ability
• Access to networks and resources
• Being a catalyst for youth development

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Target group

• 18 - 35 years
• Predominantly out of school
• Catering for different cohorts
• Skilled/ unskilled
• Rural/ peri-urban
• Women
• Disabled
• Hiv / Aids
• Not to duplicate the educations sphere

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The structure of UYF
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Youth employment programmes
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Contact, Information counseling
Radio TV
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Youth entrepreneurship programmes
Support provided using voucher scheme
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The model informing our focus
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For effective practice

• Intergrated approach to youth development
• There is no single model
• Leverage resources through collaboration
• Provide extended service Support follow-up
• Hire and develop quality staff
• Adult support and structure
• Commit to continuous improvement
• Treat youth as a resource
• Make use of work (including community service)

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Investment philosophies

• Always have a policy of diversifying its exposure
  by syndicating projects with other funders/donors
  and by forming linkages
• Neither be a tag along or a Fund for departments
  nor should it aim to displace existing
  programmes
• Each project must specify outcome measures for
  on-going monitoring and evaluation
• Pursue a strategic (narrow) focus in order to
  achieve sustainable impact
• Endeavour to attain national coverage and
• Not intending to build a huge bureaucracy.

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How UYF will function
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Promises 2001

• Presented May 2001
• R123 m to R172 m per annum
• Implementation of focus areas as described
• Building of instituional capacity

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How UYF has / will evolve (phase 1)
1st 6 months 6 to 18 months 12 to 24 months
Business plan, benchmarks Implementation of pilot programmes Pilot grass-roots programmes
Infrastructure systems Exploring linkages Generate policy parameters
Human capacity Capacity building programme Strengthen linkages
Consultations Brand awareness Integration of UYF programmes
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How UYF has / will evolve (phase 2)
Year 2-3 Year 3 - 5
National planning integrates Youth dev. Implementation of pilot programmes
Capacity at provincial and local level Share experiences in Africa
Best practice model All nodal points have youth programmes
Comprehensive review
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Targets Youth employment programmes
Contact, Info Counselling Youth Service School to Work
150 000 young people have accessed used info each year 600 young people (02) 1500 (03), 3000 (04) in prog each year 500 young people (02/03) 1000 (03), 2000 (04) in prog each year
15 youth advice centres (02) 30(03) 70 (05)
Youth-line (02)
Youth Portal (02)
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Targets Youth entrepreneurship
Funding Business Dev. Support Job creation impact (5 yrs)
10 000 youth owned SMMEs have access to finance (06) 5 000 young entrepreneurs have received BDS support 20 000 jobs created
2500 sustainable businesses (06) 9 000 youths provided basic entrepreneurship orientation training
Voucher scheme (02) 300 BDS service providers and mentors trained
100 providers accredited
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How much?
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Challenges

• Capacity
• Govt. support (line managers)
• Private sector support
• Funding not sufficient
• NGOs/CBOs (institutional and individual capacity)
• Policy strategy
• Consensus (e.g. with organised labour)
• Co-ordination(Intergrated youth, rural, H.R.
  develoment)

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Challenges

• Information
• Access to right channels
• Alternative channels of communication
• Youth
• Participation
• Unrealistic expectations
• Lack of capacity amongst youth structures
• Risk management
• Monitoring and evaluation

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Key milestones

• Integrated Sustainable Youth Economic
  Participation Programme linking with other
  developmental projects using the experience
• Public works
• Skills Projects with DoL and Setas
• Youth diversion
• Youth Service

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Key milestones

• Youth Service
• Infrastructure to manage project and volunteer
  based projects
• Mainstream micro finance (Systems, etc)
• Provincial coordination
• Youth Card

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Sustainability

• Good and effective practice (management)
• Focused approach - not everything to every one
• Form linkages (e.g. National Skills Fund)
• Donor funding
• Governments on-going funding
• Youth entrepreneurship

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• Thank you