1. Source of funding

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

2. Mission and objectives

The goal of this project is to create an improved understanding of how youth entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship start-up programmes contribute to creating more and better employment for youth.This understanding will then contribute to the design of more efficient and effective youth entrepreneurship strategies by making the findings available to national policy makers and youth entrepreneurship promoters.

     1. Share the findings of this research as widely as possible with youth entrepreneurship policy makers, promoters and practitioners;
     2.Create a global network of entrepreneurship education practitioners and promoters from ministries, schools and training institutions in countries where the ILO has introduced the “Know about Business” (KAB) entrepreneurship education programme;
     3.Enable this community of practice to share lessons learned about the teaching of KAB and the impact of entrepreneurship education on students; and
     4. To share knowledge and learned lessons of the implementation of other enterprise start-up programmes for out-of-school youth, such as the Start & Improve Your Business (SIYB) and the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET Ahead).

3. Areas of work relating to youth employment

Enterprise development, knowledge sharing, network, good practices

4. Partners and areas of partnership

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

5. Potential or existing partnership with the ILO

The ILO is an implementing partner of this project.

6. Successful youth employment interventions

 Creation and continued functioning of a knowledge sharing website for best practices in the application of the enterprise start-up programmes for out-of-school youth, such as the Start & Improve Your Business (SIYB) and the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET Ahead).