How to change the world_Plan

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Youth Economic Empowerment

How to Change the World 2 -project course

Niina Niemi


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What Plan? One of the worlds oldest and largest

(also geographically) NGOs

Specialised in child-centered communitydevelopment and human rights based approach

Founded in 1937 in Spain, started fundraisingin Finland in 1998

One of the biggest development organizations

in Finland and partner of Ministry for Foreign Affairs With no political or religious affiliations

In 2010 Plan worked with 37 931 communities in 48developing countries, covering population of 28,2 million

children.


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Plan has operations worldwide

48 Programme countries

21 Fundraising countries

Plan Finlands programme countries


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What we do in Plan Finland

Fundraising

Developmentprogrammes

Domestic

programmes

PR and

communication


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Global educationand voluntary work

New: youth networks

Mit videoo festival tour

Domestic programmes aim at enhancing

childrens rights and buildingawareness of them


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Corporate partnerships

Children and youth have a centralrole in making change and

companies have a stronginfluence on how societiesdevelope

We invite corporates andbusiness decisions makers to take

global responsibility in Finlandand in programme countries

We offer partnership packagesand taylored partnershipsolutions to meet the needs of

different business types and sizes


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Investing in young people is crucial forfuture economic development

Over the nextdecade, more thanone billion children

will make thetransition through

adolescence intoadulthood.

Current trends suggest that young people will continue to

be poor, with limited opportunities for employment.

Poor education and health for futures workers and consumersleads to unemployment and losses in future production.

The exclusion of millionsof young people from

decent work can have

security implications whendesperate young fall prey

to warlords, criminalgangs or illegal migrationtraffickers.


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Why is it important to invest in youth?The high and rising levels of youth unemployment

globally is a social timesocial timesocial timesocial time----bombbombbombbomb, which risksdamaging the social, economic and political fabricof countries around the world.

Todays youth can be tomorrowtomorrowtomorrowtomorrows workers,s workers,s workers,s workers,entrepreneurs and leadersentrepreneurs and leadersentrepreneurs and leadersentrepreneurs and leaders; agents of change,

bringing fresh vision, new leadership and

critical problem-solving creativity to some ofthe worlds most intractable problems.


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Key Facts about Worlds Youth1. Young people under 25 years make up about 50 % of the

worlds population2. 40 % of Africans are under the age of 15

3. It is estimated that 1.3 billion young people will enter theglobal labour force by 2020

4. Nearly 85 % of them live in developing countries whereyouth unemployment is already at the highest rate on record

5. 25% of the long-term unemployed in the world are young

6. Many young unemployed live in households that survive onless than US$1.25 per day


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90% of the worlds young peoplelive in developing countries


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Plan International

a child-centereddevelopment

organisation workingin 48 developing

countries

World Bank Global

Partnership for YouthInvestment

a network of socialentrepreneurs, academics

and communications experts

ImageNations

global leaders andspecialists in

economicdevelopment andyouth employment

Establish a YEE Secretariat to manage and implement the global programme.

Implement programmes in developing countries that will create economicempowerment and employment for young people using approaches that can be

replicated and scaled up around the world.

Youth Economic Empowerement -cooperation


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YEE programs prepare youngpeople for employment Technical, vocational and educational training aligned

with current and future labour market demand

Career information and guidance Financial literacy

Access to financial services and capital

Access to technology

Microenterprise and business development Training and support for business planning

Life skills education

Rights and healthy lifestyle choices

Job placement and post-placement support Mentoring relationships


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YEE-activities in Finland Tackling the unemployment of young

immigrants and supporting their integration

to the Finnish society will require new andinnovative solutions

My Path (Minun polkuni) project developsnew approaches for supporting immigrants,

preventing school drop-outs and exclustion Around 10-20 internship places/semesterare needed in the metropolitan area

The partners in the pilot phase are the

Education office of Helsinki City, Jakomkisecondary school and companies


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Ideas and aims for project group To find innovative ways to connect Finnish companies,

youth and other stakeholders through YouthEconomic EmpowermentTo be narrowed down according to the groups interest

areas Deliverable can be presentation of an idea or concept

to connect one or several of the stakeholder groups


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Plans support To give valuable project experience and to execute a

rewarding project that can be utilized in our work:Plan Finland promises to tutor actively and give feedback

on the project

The project can be oriented according to commondiscussions

A successful project can be utilized in Plan Finlandsoperations


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Contacts

Niina Niemi

Programme coordinator,corporate partnerships

[email protected]

Tel. 040 7611677

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