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Governance of Forest areas and Natural Resources: This country team was composed by representatives of the Integrated Carbon sequestration Project funded by IFAD in Sudan: Mr. Bakri Mahmoud, Mr. Balla Bburae, Ms Taghreed Ali, Mr. Yassin Ahamed and Ms. Sawsan Obdeidalla. The team prepared a photo-story on the importance of decision-making processes as well as technical and social convergence between local authorities and rural communities when dealing with Forest and Natural Resources Governance and Management.
Discover more: africa.procasur.org/index.php/our-work/lr-sorted-by-year/item/275/275
Livelihoods improvement through Forest Conservation and Natural Resources Management:
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Scholarship Form to the Learning Initiative on:
Linking smallholders to commercialization practices: the case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sector
Commitment /Endorsement Letter to the learning initiative: Linking smallholders to commercialization practices: the case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sector
Application form to the learning initiative: Linking smallholders to commercialization practices: the case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sector
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Terms of reference for a consultancy:
PROJECT: “Strengthening resilience and nutritional security of rural subsistence farmers in Makueni,
Machakos and Kitui Counties, Kenya”
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LOCATION: South East Kenya, Counties of Machakos, Makueni, Kitui
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Within the framework of the joint IFAD-funded Large Grant programme: “Strengthening Capacities and Tools to Scale Up and Disseminate Innovations”, the Procasur Corporation supports knowledge management and capacity-building strategies aimed at scaling up best practices and innovations that contribute to reducing poverty among IFAD stakeholders in East and Southern Africa (ESA), West and Central Africa (WCA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Asia and Pacific (APR) regions.
The programme’s objective is to enhance implementation performance and impact of rural development projects in LAC, ESA, PTA and WCA by increasing access to knowledge, capacity building and scaling up of good practices.
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• Identifying, organizing and disseminating existing knowledge on innovations and best practices;
• Identifying local “champions”, or people who play a key role in promoting innovations, and enabling them to organize and share their experience using the Learning Routes methodology; and
• Designing and implementing Learning Routes and disseminating the knowledge acquired.
The IFAD Country Office in Sudan has participated in several Learning Routes, and on the basis of this experience, has proposed customizing the methodology and making it simpler and easier to use. This would allow projects and the country office to share knowledge and ideas more easily, and therefore contribute to improved performance.
These guidelines are based on draft guidelines proposed by the Country Office, which in turn are largely based on original material produced by Procasur. They reflect the experience gained by Procasur in its work with rural communities and organizations in the Global South, and are also an expression of the value that IFAD’s country programme in Sudan places on the Learning Routes methodology as a tool for rural transformation. These updated guidelines have incorporated comments and lessons from the training and field exercise undertaken with IFAD project staff in Uganda in July 2014.
The guidelines are rooted in fieldwork and real-life experiences. They are therefore a work in progress that will grow with the contributions of the communities, organizations and projects using them. Users are encouraged to be flexible and innovative, and when they discover new ways of sharing knowledge, to contribute this information to the guidelines. Users’ suggestions and ideas are essential for making the guidelines better.
Procasur Corporation in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
have partnered with the Pro-poor Value Chain Project in the Maputo and Limpopo Corridors (PROSUL) Project in ZImbabwe and the Climate Resilient Post-Harvest and Agribusiness Support Project (PASP) in Rwanda to present the Learning Initiative: “Practical solutions to adapt to climate change in the production and post-harvesting sectors: the cases of Mozambique and Rwanda”.
This initiative will host a Learning Route between the 6th and 11th of November 2016 in Mozambique and Rwanda.
The primary learning goal is to support collaborative learning and action between individuals and organizations linked to IFAD to introduce sustainable practices, adaptive technologies and climate-resilient post-harvesting infrastructures, technologies and practices. The LI will provide and facilitate opportunities to strategically fill gaps and make links between related production and post production processes in a manner that promotes more inclusive approaches and practical solutions to climate change negative impacts.
For more on the initiative and the application pack please go to our website: http://africa.procasur.org/inde…/join-us/call-events/241-241
Procasur Corporation through the Learning Route methodology usually prepares a Learning Route fieldblog for its participants. So what exactly is a learning route?
A Learning Route is a continuous process of in-the-field training that seeks to broaden and diversify the markets of rural technical services, placing special value on the best experiences and knowledge of institutions, associations, communities and rural families. Each Route is organized thematically around experiences, case studies and best practices on innovative rural and local development. A learning route fieldblog is a compilation of learning tools within an interactive framework. It shares with the participants of a learning route the operational material and key aspects of the selected case studies and action plan.
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Youth Entrepreneurship Facility_Youth to Youth (Y2Y) Fund 2014_Learning Route Presentation
1. 1
TITLE
Subtitle
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
&
YOUTH-to-YOUTH (Y2Y) Fund
IFAD & PROCASUR’s “Learning Route”
Nairobi Kenya, August 16, 2014
2. 2
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
Title: Unleashing African Entrepreneurship – Youth
Entrepreneurship Facility
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Period: 2010-2014
Phase I: 2010-11
Phase II: 2012-14
Agencies: International Labour Organization and the
Africa Commission (Government of Denmark: USD
24 million)
3. Vision:
To enable African youth to turn their energy and ideas into
business opportunities to increasing their incomes and creating
decent work for themselves and others.
3
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
4. 4
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility
The initiative has five strategic interlinked components:
1. Fostering a culture of entrepreneurship among young people,
2. Introducing entrepreneurship education in schools,
3. Making sure that potential and existing young entrepreneurship have access to
business development services,
4. Strengthening youth-led organizations through a Youth-to-Youth Fund
5. Promoting evidence-based advocacy to better understand what works in youth
entrepreneurship development.
6. IDEA LABORATORY
Identify, test, and promote innovative entrepreneurship solutions to
youth employment challenges
By giving young people a voice, means and capacity to take an active role
in youth entrepreneurship development
6
YOUTH-TO-YOUTH FUND (Y2YF)
IDENTIFY TEST PROMOTE
7. Y2YF-OBJECTIVES
• Build the capacity of youth-led organizations and enable young people to move
from being passive recipients to become active participants in the creation of
youth employment.
• Create decent employment for youth through the creation and expansion of
7
viable youth owned enterprises
• Facilitate the testing of innovative business ideas and extract lessons from
Ushirikiano,
Kenya Y2YF
Grantee
funded projects and tested ideas in order to facilitate the scaling up and
replication of successful initiatives
8. 8
Y2YF-MODEL
• Competitive Grant Scheme for youth-led organizations to propose
innovative project ideas on how to create entrepreneurship and
business opportunities for their peers.
• The organizations with the most innovative project ideas receive a grant
and complementary capacity building to help implement their projects
and test the viability of the ideas.
• The most successful projects initiatives in are
supported in order for them to be
taken to scale and replicated elsewhere.
YOLADO, Kenya Y2YF
9. 9
Y2YF-MODEL
• Standard Y2Y Fund
• Replication Fund
• Scale up Funding
Taezuli, Tanzania Y2YF
Grantee
10. 10
Y2YF-STRUCTURE
ILO-YEF
Y2YF Implementing Organization (Ustadi)
Grantee Organization
(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization
(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
Grantee Organization
(youth-led, non-profit NGO)
Innovative
Project
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
Youth-led businesses
(individual or groups)
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
Youth-led businesses
(individual or groups)
(Potential) Youth
Entrepreneurs
Youth-led businesses
(individual or groups)
Jobs for young people Jobs for young people Jobs for young people
11. 11
Y2YF- STRATEGIES
ILO-YEF
Y2YF Implementing
Organization
Networking, Sharing of information, resources, and tools, any additional support.
18. 18
Y2YF-KS EVENTS
YEF Regional KS
Workshop. Nairobi,
Kenya 2013
Y2YF Regional KS Event.
Arusha, Tanzania 2013
19. 19
Y2YF-KEY PARTNERS
• National Advisory Committee (representatives from public and private
sector (i.e. MSEA, KOTU, FKE, Enablis, Junior Achievement)
• National Mentor Monitoring Network partners
• Y2YF Tanzania and Uganda
• SIYB trainers
National
Advisory
Committee
Meeting 2014
Kenya
21. Y2YF beta site
• http://cwoodltd.co.uk/y2y/what-is-the-y2y-
fund.html
21
Editor's Notes
By supporting emerging and existing young entrepreneurs to succeed in their business ventures.
The initiative has five strategic interlinked components to unleash the ideas of existing and emerging entrepreneurs.
-There’s little evidence on what works and what doesn’t work with youth employment programs.
-Research conducted by the ILO in West Africa, which challenged youth as to how they would design employment programs showed that 1) most projects proposed were heavily focused on entrepreneurship, (because in many target countries the reality is that self-employment is one of the few viable employment options within the current job markets) and 2) The most successful projects provided a combination of hard and soft skills training, access to finance, practical training and follow up support
-The development of the Y2YF was based on these findings, focusing on meaningful youth participation, and providing the "full package" to young entrepreneurs with a focus on innovative areas or niche markets.
Taezuli-crab fattening Tanzania
In selecting an implementing partner, we wanted to find an organization with grant management and entrepreneurial experience, networks and projects across the country, and with similar values to YEF (supporting organizations to leverage on local resources to facilitate sustainable entrepreneurship opportunities.
Y2YF Grantees are selected based on several standardized criteria: they must be a registered non-profit organization, primarily youth led. They are also assessed on their demonstrated project innovation, relevance of the solution & the scale of impact, organizational capacity & implementation potential, market potential, ownership of the beneficiaries, sustainability and partnership development. We work with a range of NGO’s across Kenya in both rural and urban settlements.
Community beneficiaries are selected by the grantee organizations. They must come up with specific selection criteria to ensure they are selecting individuals who have the drive, interest and resources to succeed in their project. Most beneficiaries are under or unemployed youth in vulnerable circumstances, in rural areas or urban informal settlements.
The Y2Y Fund began in 2008 with pilot programs in West Africa (Côte D'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone) implemented in partnership with UNIDO. It’s since been expanded to Guinea, Morocco, Togo. The program was exported to East Africa as part of the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in 2010.
-The World Bank recognized the Y2Y Fund as one of the 30 most important and innovative global models which support micro-entrepreneurship.
-The Rockefeller Foundation showcased the Y2Y Fund in its 100 Innovators Gallery.