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Ronaldo EsteraRegional Program Manager Asia

ICS Asia head officeD-19 Angkor shopping arcade.Siem Reap, Cambodia

Office: + (855) (0)63 763 528

Mobile: + (855) 97 31 41 051

E-mail: ronaldo.estera@icsasia.org

Skype: ics.ronaldo.estera

For more information:

Talitha HammerProject Officer Social Business

Smallepad 323811 MG AmersfoortThe Netherlands

Office: + 31 33 303 0250

Mobile: + 316 48 48 64 38

E-mail: talitha.hammer@ics.nl

Skype: ics.talitha.kotterink

Check our website for all our activities: www.ics.nl

CAMBODIASKYE PROJECT(SOCIETY OF KHMER YOUTH

ENTREPRENEURS)

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CAMBODIA - SKYE PROJECT (SOCIETY OF KHMER YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS)

ICS (Investing in Children andtheir Societies) strives towardsa better future for children inrural Africa and Asia. Through itsprojects and programs, it builds

on a sustainable growth in welfare and wellbeing

by simultaneously investing in economic and socialopportunities and needs. The central building blocksof the work of ICS are social business, child protectionand skillful parenting.

The issue

Cambodias youth represents seventy percent (70%)

of the population (World Bank; 2007). The Cambodian

youth faces a lot of problems. This is why it is the Khmer

Youth Entrepreneurs (SKYE) projects goal to support the

active engagement of children and youth in promoting

and advancing social and financial education and sexual

and reproductive health rights.

SKYE (Society of Khmer Youth Entrepreneurs)

SKYE was developed based on ICSs mission to

contribute towards a caring and enabling environment.

An environment where children can grow up their fullpotential. Children and young people are given roles as

civic actors and drivers of change.

The main goal of this project is to support the

sustainable increase in the active participation of out of

school and-in school youth. This is in the provinces of

Oddar Meanchey, Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap.

To realize the above mentioned goal, activities willbe undertaken in three major phases:

Phase I

Participatory Action Research (PAR) camp: in-school

and out-of-school youth, with leadership potentials,will attend a 3-day action research to explore social

issues and realities from their own perspectives.

They will identify their interest, skills and capacities

and find ways on how these are used in an

entrepreneurial way to address the social issues.

The PAR camps introduce the youth to basic social

and financial concepts and skills through experiential

learning activities such as the '5 USD challenge'

and 'business games', which are important towards

pursuing their long-term goals.

Phase 2

The same participants of the PAR camp will

meet again after two to three weeks. Creating

opportunities for social involvement and to establish

their own SKYE chapter. SKYE members will showthe results of the 5 USD challenge and discuss about

what went well and what went wrong. The whole

exercise would result into:

1 social activities creating learning experiences

2 SKYE chapters established

3 youth peer facilitators identified

4 potential plans for social enterprise identified

5 SKYE members will show the results of the 5 USD

challenge and discuss about what went well and

what went wrong.

Phase 3

Youth leaders and members of the established

SKYE chapter will make long term plans for social

enterprises. To start a social enterprise, they are

supported through training and networks with other

support organizations and grants and loans. Allactivities in this phase would result to:1 SKYE members capacity built through various

training programs.

2 Established SKYE chapters are linked to other

organizations that can support them in their

chosen social enterprise.

3 SKYE social enterprises are successfully

established and managed by members.

Objectives:

The main objective is the establishment of a solid

and dynamic youth association; SKYE. An association

that facilitates the youths continuous participationcreating and managing change within their immediatecommunity. In doing so, the following objectives will be

met by the SKYE project:

25 Participatory Action Research activities are

conducted in different districts in the provinces of

Oddar Meanchey, Banteay Meanchey and Siem

Reap.

25 SKYE-chapters the different districts for theprovinces of Oddar Meanchey, Banteay Meanchey

and Siem Reap.

2500 young people joined training courses covering

life skills and vocational skills. They participate in

multi-level development activities in their immediate

community.

30 SKYE sub-chapters with feasible plans for

business enterprises are given support through

loans. This enables them to establish or further

develop their enterprise. Linkages and partnership are established to provide

youth wider opportunities to participate in changes

and development in the society.

Strategy

1 Provide opportunity for youth engagement through

Participatory Action Research (PAR).2 Providing structural support through establishment

of SKYE.

3 Providing training support to SKYE members.

4 Providing financial support in the form of loans

to SKYE chapters with feasible plans of business

enterprises.

5 Exploring linkages and partnership for SKYE

members.

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