YEN’s Youth-to-Youth Fund for Entrepreneurship Development

The YEN Youth to Youth Fund is a competitive grant scheme for youth employment. The grant scheme supports innovative, small scale youth employment projects submitted by youth led organizations. Grants of 5,000 to 20,000 USD are awarded to proposals chosen by a selection committee of technical specialists and a high level finalist Jury, based on predefined criteria. With support from the Danish led Africa Commission YEN launched a first call for proposals in 2010 focusing on youth entrepreneurship in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda). The demand has been very strong with around 700 project proposals received from the three countries. Several calls are planned for the forthcoming years. The project proposes BASF to become a co sponsor of the next call for proposals scheduled for early 2011.

Project symbol

RAF/10/05/BSF

Admin unit

EMP/CEPOL

Start date

01/06/2011

End date

31/07/2012

Total allocation

132932

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

132932

Development Partners

BASF Social Foundation

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Employment Promotion