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Making Cents International's
2009 Global Youth Enterprise Conference
September 29-30, 2009

Cafritz Conference Center
(inside Marvin Center)
George Washington University
800 21st Street, NW; 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20052

Contribute. Learn. Connect.

Be a part of growing and strengthening the youth enterprise,
employment, and livelihoods development field.

Share your 2020 vision for this field.

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 community identifies and pursues innovative approaches for creating economic and entrepreneurial opportunities for youth people.

With this backdrop, Making Cents International will convene practitioners, donors, educators, youth, members of the private sector, representatives of governments, and other partners in youth enterprise, employment, and livelihood development for the 2009 Global Youth Enterprise Conference. These 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 create economic opportunities for young people. 

Global Advisory Committee Members  

Academy for Educational Development
AED 

 American Refugee Committee


Ashoka/Youth Venture
AshokaYouth venture

Avanza

 BRAC


 Camfed

CHF International
CHF 

Children Incorporated


 ChildFund International


Educational Development Center (EDC)

Fundacion E
Fundacione

Fundacion Paraguaya




Gallup


 Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific

ImagineNations Group
Imagine nations 

 Junior Achievement Worldwide
Junio achievement

MEDA


 Mercy Corps
Mercy corps

 PLAN International
Plan

Private Education Development Network


 Save the Children
Save the children

U.S. Agency for International Development
US aid

The World Bank
World bank

Youth Business International

Pre-Conference Workshop Opportunity  
Making Cents International announces:
"Adapting Training Products for Youth Programs"

Monday, September 28, 2009
9:00 am-1:30 pm
Making Cents International
$25 registration fee (includes lunch)

To register, please email Fernando Maldonado, Making Cents' Business Development Associate, at fernando[@]makingcents.com.
Post-Conference Training Opportunity  

Microfinance Opportunities announces:
"Train the Trainer:
Young People: Your Future, Your Money"

Thursday, October 1, 2009
9:00 am- 5:00 pm
Cafritz Conference Center
$250 registration fee

To register, please email Hannah Zimmerman at hannahz[@]mfopps.org.

Conference Sponsors  
Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsor





Silver Sponsor





Bronze Sponsors

AED
Academy for Educational Development






Education Development Center


Microfinance Opportunities

Cordes Foundation


Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship,
University of the Pacific

Copper Sponsor

Children Incorporated

Fundacion Paraguaya

Venue Sponsor

  George washington university - center for international business education and research

Additional Sponsor

Gallup

Youth Scholarship Sponsor

Inter-American Foundation

Media Partners  




New Publication Available  
Making Cents is pleased to announce the following 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.
New Resources Available  
Making Cents is pleased to share the following resources, which can be downloaded by double clicking on each document:

* List of publications, reports, toolkits, and guides produced in 2007 and 2008 on youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development.

* List of web-based resources (e.g. portals) on youth enterprise, employment, and livelihoods development.

* List of 2009 learning events around the world related to youth enterprise, employment, and livehoods development.

* List of participating organizations in the 2008 Global Youth Enterprise Conference.

We hope these resources will be useful to you, and please feel free to contact us if you'd like to add any others.
Publication Announcement  
Making Cents International is pleased to share:

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.
Article on 2008 Youth Scholarship Recipient  
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.
Article on Impact of IAF's Investment in Youth   
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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