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Ye! Kenya Startup Video Competition 2016 for Kenyan Entrepreneurs ( Win Tickets to the Youth Entrepreneurship of the Year Award ceremony in Europe)

by OFA
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Submission Deadline: June 26th 2016

Ye! Community is proud to announce a Startup Video Competition in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)! Through the video competition Ye! will select 3 young (18-30 year old) Kenyan entrepreneurs to pitch at an amazing pitch event during the Youth Forum at the UNCTAD XIV meetings in Nairobi on 18 July 2016.

Requirements:

  • Applicants must beunder 30 years old
  • The business idea demonstrates elements of innovation (we’re open to entrepreneurs from all sectors!)
  • The business is beyond the ideation stage. In other words, it needs to be more than an idea – there already needs to some revenue generated or a working prototype of your product
  • The business has a Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet, Profit.

Benefits

Winners get selected to pitch at the Youth Forum, allowing you to:

  • Showcase your startup before an audience of international youth, international investors, and policy makers at one of the most important global events in the world!
  • Get feedbackon your startup from business leaders and experienced investors!
  • Have a chance to be nominated to attend and win the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award held in a city (to be announced) in Europe in November 2016 (all travel and accommodation costs will be covered)!

Award & Prize

  • 3 entrepreneurs are selected to pitch at the Youth Forum in the morning of 18 July in Nairobi
  • The winner at the pitch event (you’ll be competing with 5 other young entrepreneurs) wins a ticket to the Youth Entrepreneurship of the Year Award ceremony in Europe (exact city to be announced!) – which will be part of the larger CYFI Award ceremonies

How to Register

 

  • Register/Login to your Ye! Account
  • Submit a video to tell us about your startup (2~3 minutes) through your profile or on this page (under “Apply Now”)
    * The video can be a product demo, a pitch, a presentation or a promotion video. You can be creative!
  • Share your video and invite people to vote for you
  • Submission and voting deadline: 26 June, 2016

 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Ye! Kenya Startup Video Competition 2016

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2015 Child and Youth Finance International Regional Meeting for Africa, Accra Ghana ( 23–24 November, 2015)

by OFA
written by OFA

The 4th CYFI Regional Meeting for Africa will be held in the Ghanaian capital from 23 – 24 November, 2015 at the Accra International Conference Center (AICC). The meeting will be jointly organized by the Child & Youth Finance Secretariat, Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC), and the Youth Enterprise Support (YES).

It will bring together some of Africa´s leading experts, researchers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, government representatives, youth representatives, as well as national and international NGOs to discuss Financial Inclusion, Entrepreneurship and Economic Citizenship for children and youth.

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The Youth Meeting

The first day of the 4th CYFI Regional Meeting for Africa will center around a Youth Summit. The Summit will focus mainly on creating an enabling environment for the growth of youth enterprises. It will involve workshops and plenary sessions that will define specific challenges to young entrepreneurs in Africa, and identify innovative practices that can help address these challenges.

Around 100 youngsters are expected to attend the Youth Summit. The will be made up of:

  • Young entrepreneurs from the region;
  • Members of the CYFI Youth Entrepreneurship (Ye!) Community;
  • Alumni participants from previous CYFI Global Youth Summits and Regional Youth Meetings for Africa;
  • Youngsters actively furthering financial education and inclusion in their respective countries;
  • Representatives of youth organizations in the region.

Ye! Pitching Event

The Meeting will see the launch of Ye! Community in Africa. The Ye! Community is CYFI´s global platform for youth entrepreneurs aged between 16 and 30 years. It provides a gallery of country guides, an online community for young entrepreneurs to connect, a coaching program to pair entrepreneurs with experienced professionals, and funding opportunities.

An integral part of this year´s meeting will be Ye! Pitching Event for young entrepreneurs. Eight young entrepreneurs will be given the opportunity to market their businesses to potential investors, financial service providers and business leaders.

Program Themes

The Child and Youth Finance Movement has reached a milestone – the issue of financial inclusion is now a priority on the G20 Agenda for 2015, which makes this a crucial year for the efforts of partners in the CYFI Network to achieve our collective goal of reaching 100 million children and youth with financial services and Economic Citizenship Education by the end of 2015.

The 4th Child & Youth Finance Regional Meeting for Africa will reflect this global call for action. To achieve its objectives and expected outcomes the Meeting is structured around three main themes: Innovate, Act, Impact!

Innovate (November 23): Experience-sharing sessions initiated by partners, stakeholders and other experts to share best practices and learn from innovations across global sectors in the field of financial inclusion and Economic Citizenship Education.

Act (November 23 and 24): Demonstrate new concrete projects which can be implemented, replicated and taken to scale.

Impact (November 24): Create national and regional specific action plans to facilitate the economic citizenship ecosystem and shape a regional outreach plan for 2016 and beyond.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the 2015 Child and Youth Finance International Regional Meeting for Africa, Accra Ghana

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