The two-day event was held in\u00a0Dakar, Senegal<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a013-14 November 2018<\/strong>\u00a0during the Global Entrepreneurship Week. It was a featured event of the Global Entrepreneurship Week and was jointly co-organized by the partners of the\u00a0Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth<\/a>: International Labour Organization (ILO), International Trade Centre (ITC), United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). It is held in collaboration with the Government of Senegal, Agence Nationale pour la Promotion de l\u2019Emploi des Jeunes (ANPEJ), Agence S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise de Promotion des Exportations (ASEPEX), the Government of Spain, the Government of Luxembourg, NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency, Nestl\u00e9 and Jokkolabs, host of the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Senegal.<\/p>\n Mr. Kawsu Sillah,<\/strong> AYC Executive Secretary alongside Mr. Lamin Darboe<\/strong>, Executive Director of Gambia National Youth Council participated at the Forum in Dakar.<\/p>\n Mr. Darboe spoke on a panel “Making policy work for youth entrepreneurship”.<\/p>\n This panel aimed at: Promoting youth entrepreneurship and self-employment calls for actions at policy and institutional levels. Evidence shows that effective reforms in business environments lead to the emergence of new firms and job creation. The session focuses on understanding what works and what does not in promoting an enabling policy and regulatory environment for young entrepreneurs and self-employed youth. Challenges in supporting youth entrepreneurship and self-employment Other Speakers includes: And was moderated by Fiorina Mugione, Chief, Entrepreneurship Section, Division on For more information about the Forum including the Concept Note, Programme Guide, Participants List and other documents, please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.decentjobsforyouth.org\/events\/32\/en#overview<\/p>\n View the posts from National Youth Council facebook page:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nycgambia\/posts\/2323211164574675<\/p>\n #<\/span>YESForum<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0#<\/span>YESDeclaration<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unleashing the potential of youth to succeed in business The two-day event was held in\u00a0Dakar, Senegal\u00a0on\u00a013-14 November 2018\u00a0during the Global Entrepreneurship Week. It was a featured event of the Global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nencountered by policymakers and institutions, particularly in West Africa, are also explored. The discussion will be informed by experiences and lessons learned from integrating youth into national entrepreneurship and industrial strategies, in coherence with relevant national strategies, including on employment and education, in line with regional development objectives anchored in frameworks such as the
\nThird Decade of Industrial Development for Africa (IDDA3), the Agenda 2063 of the
\nAfrican Union and the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).<\/p>\n
\n\uf0b7 Finda Koroma, Vice President, ECOWAS Commission
\n\uf0b7 Aminata Kouyat\u00e9, National Director of Youth Employment, Guinea
\n\uf0b7 Martin Ruvugabigwi, Chair, Commonwealth Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs<\/p>\n
\nInvestment and Enterprise, UNCTAD.<\/p>\n