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Hosted by The Inter-American Development Bank
 Location: Conference Center 1330 New York Ave., NW Washington, DC 20577
Contribute. Learn. Connect.
Be a part of growing and strengthening the youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development field.
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After an extensive global consultation with stakeholders in this field, the following themes have been identified as priority areas for the field this year and thus will comprise the conference's tracks:
1) Workforce Development 2) Youth-Inclusive Financial Services & Financial Capabilities 3) Monitoring, Evaluation & Impact Assessment 4) Youth Enterprise Development 5) Adolescent Girls & Young Women
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Today's global youth population is at a historical high of more than 1.5 billion. At a time when 89 percent of these young people live in developing countries, many are unable to secure decent work, as youth are on average three times as likely to be unemployed as adults. In the last ten years, the world's youth population grew by 10.5 percent while youth employment only grew by 0.2 percent. The International Labour Organization is also estimating that another 1 billion young people will enter the world's labor market within the next ten years. It is highly unlikely enough jobs will be created to employ the number of young jobseekers who will enter the labor market this decade.
The world is experiencing a youth employment crisis. It is critical that a multi-sectoral global community identifies and pursues innovative approaches for increasing and improving economic opportunities for young people.
With this backdrop, Making Cents International will convene practitioners, donors, educators, researchers, policymakers, youth entrepreneurs, and other partners in youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development for the 2010 Global Youth Enterprise & Livelihoods Development Conference. Conference participants are part of a growing community committed to investing in young people and the innovations necessary to ensure programs and policies achieve greater impact, sustainability, and scale. Making Cents supports this community regularly meeting to share lessons learned, promising practices, and new ideas that build entrepreneurial and employment opportunities for young people.
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Academy for Educational Development
 
Education Development Center 
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CHF International
Youth Scholarship Inter-American Foundation |
The following post- 2009 conference publication is available for free download:
State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods Development Programming & Policymaking in Youth Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods Development; and Youth-Inclusive Financial Services
 To download a copy, please click here. To order a hard copy, please click here.
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The following post- 2008 conference publication is available for free download:
State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods Development Market-Driven Approaches; Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment; and Youth-Inclusive Financial Services
 To download a copy, please click here. To order a hard copy, please click here.
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The following post- 2007 conference publication is available for free download: Youth Microenterprise and Livelihoods: State of the Field Lessons from the 2007 Global Youth Microenterprise Conference
To download the publication, please click here. To download the publication in French, please click here. To order hard copies, please click here. To read an article about youth enterprise and employment, as well as the publication, on the Development Gateway's Youth for Development portal, please click here.
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* List of case studies from 2008 and 2009 on youth enterprise, employment and livelihoods development.* List of web-based resources (e.g. portals) from 2008 and 2009 on youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development.
* List of toolkits, guides, handbooks and manuals from 2008 and 2009 on youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development. * List of 2010 learning events around the world related to youth enterprise, employment, and livehoods development.
We hope these resources will be useful to you, and please feel free to contact us if you'd like to add any others.
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| Click here to read an article from El Tribuno on Andrea Cespedes, a youth entrepreneur from Argentina who participated in the 2008 Global Youth Enterprise Conference. The Inter-American Foundation sponsored Andrea's participation. The article is in Spanish.
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| Click here to read an excerpt from an article the Inter-American Foundation wrote on the impact their investment had on youth participation at the 2008 Global Youth Enterprise Conference. Included is information on IAF's call for project proposals.
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