Youth Innovation FundYouth-to-Youth Community

Aug. 2, 2006

Youth to Youth Community

Who is the Y2Y Community?• The Youth-to-Youth Community (Y2Y) is a network of

young World Bank staff created in 2004 to:

– Channel fresh ideas and perspectives into World Bank operations– Engage and empower youth in development

• Y2Y membership has continuously increased - Y2Y's newsletter now reaches around 1000 young staff at the Bank

• The Youth Innovation Fund (YIF) is one of Y2Y‘s eight annual activities - started in 2005 as a pilot project in LCR

Summary of Y2Y ProductsOngoing and Growing…

• Youth Innovation Fund (YIF)• Youth Conference during UN Week

Preston Auditorium, October 23, 2008

• Mentorship Program• Monthly Newsletter• Youth-Focused BBLs and Seminars• Career Series• Networking Events• Network of DC Youth Organizations

Youth Innovation Fund

The YIF Approach

• Small grants: $10K per winning project for 9 months

• Young leaders: Staff below age 33 from all regions can apply

• YIF projects are Bank projects: * Integration in Bank operations* Support from CMU

• Selection Committee: composed of Senior Staff

The YIF’s Goals

•Leverage Local resources• Achieve maximum impact with minimal resources•Promote partnerships with key development players

•Meet the demand for youth projects in Bank regions•Linkages to Bank operations

•Build youth capacity and a knowledge network within the Bank Innovation

Impact Efficiency

YOUTH

YIF Requirements

• Approval from your own Manager• Support from Senior Management• Approval from Country Officer in target

country• Partner youth organization in target country

Written Documentation is sufficient for approval

• 54 out of 145 project proposals, in 36 different countries, funded and implemented to date:

• Total seed funding from VPUs: $527,000

• Seed project funding in LCR increased from $10K to $18K and implementation timeframe extended from 9 months to 14 months

YIF Progress to Date

LCR (18 projects)EAP (4 projects) MNA (9 projects)

SAR (10 projects)AFR (4 projects)ECA (9 projects)

The YIF in FY09 and Beyond

• LCR – 5 projects • EAP – 4 projects• MNA – 4 projects • ECA - $40K committed

Youth Innovation FundECA 2nd Round

The ECA YIF in 2006In 2006, ECA VPU funded 9 YIF projects:

1. Empowering Youth at Risk: Development of a Youth Driven Counter-Trafficking Campaign in Albania

2. Social Inclusion of Roma Youth (Bulgaria)

3. Living in a Peaceful Neighborhood (Georgia)

4. HIV/AIDS Hotline for Vulnerable Populations in Kazakhstan

5. Tertiary Education in Focus: Low Graduation Rates (Macedonia)

6. Reaching Poor Youth in Rural Areas of Moldova: Empowering Youth to Fight Poverty and Foster Development

7. Court Monitoring in Poland and ECA Region

8. EU Turkish Integration through Entrepreneurship

9. Ukraine E-Development: Increasing Youth Awareness for Business Process Outsourcing

Education - AlbaniaEmpowering Youth at Risk – Development of a Youth-driven counter-trafficking

campaign

• Objective: (1)step up prevention efforts and address needs of vulnerable youth by building capacity of a small youth group to develop, design and present an awareness raising, counter-trafficking campaign (2) empower youth as agents of change and increase community knowledge and ownership in the issue of trafficking

• Grant: $5,000 ; Timeframe: 5 months• Partner NGO: Different and Equal • Results: Upscaled reach from 16 to 4,360 youth between ages 14-18

throughout 8 schools• Sustainability: Campaign being continued by Albanian Youth Parliament under

NGO Different and Equal which plans to spread campaign to other regions• Lessons learned: “ECA YIF is a cost-effective on the ground initiator and

facilitator that connects ideas with people”

Project Selection Criteria

• Degree of Innovation• Alignment with country strategy• Sustainability (support from NGO/other partners,

part of an ongoing program, etc.)• Embedded evaluation and/or monitoring

mechanisms in project design• Potential Impact• Realism of implementation schedule and budget

Project Timeline Thursday, February 26th - Launch and information session Friday, March 20th - Applications due (submitted to ECA YIF Coordinators) April 2009 - Selection committee meeting

April 2009 - Winners announced May 2009 - Procurement, disbursement and M&E training for winners May 2009 - Project implementation begins August 2009 - Mid-term reports due December 2009 - Project completion January 2010 - Final reports submitted•

Contact Information

For questions, please contact ECA YIF Coordinators:

• Farah Dib fdib@worldbank.org • Marilyn Markman

mmarkman@worldbank.org

Thank you!

Annex

• Additional examples of ECA YIF projects

Economic and Social Integration - Bulgaria

Social Inclusion of Roma Youth • Objective: promote social inclusion, and cultural and economic integration of

young people by providing them with development opportunities, while preventing segregation and enhancing interaction and constructive dialogue between Roma and non-Roma youth

• Grant: $5,000 ; Timeframe: 3 months• Partner NGO: Napreduk (Development), a Roma NGO supporting Roma rights

and development in the region, and IKOM, the project implementing company. • Results: 20 people took part in courses designed by the project, and all of them

graduated with certificates for computer literacy and professional qualification in either hairdressing and hairstyling or construction and interior design with a focus on ceramic tiling and flooring.

• Lessons leaned: All project participants described the courses as highly useful and defined communication with each other as efficient. Students suggested that future courses be longer in duration and developed in more professions than the ones offered by the current project.

Health Awareness - KazakhstanHIV/AIDS Counseling Hotline for Vulnerable Populations in Almaty

• Objective: (1) Provide a free and confidential source of HIV/AIDS information (2) Raise public awareness about HIV/AIDS

• Grant: $9,500 ; Timeframe: 9 months• Partner NGO: Public Fund Adali in Almaty’s National AIDS Center• Results:

– Pilot project opened new perspective for future work of Adali through the adaptation and integration of social and medical services.

– Hotline presented to 150 youth leaders from all 5 Central Asian countries• Sustainability: Goal to make hotline permanent program with partial funding

from the World Bank Central Asia AIDS Projects and the Kazahkstan Republic AIDS Center.

• Lessons learned: (1)needed more widespread publicity to ensure hotline success (limited by time and money) and (2)needed to incorporate quantitative measures of prevention

Civic Education - PolandCourt Monitoring in Poland, CEE and former CIS Countries

• Objective: (1) promote civic engagement of youth by raising awareness for development of a court performance M&E system; (2) improve quality of tertiary education through introduction of practice-oriented methods

• Grant: $9200 & Matching Funds: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights $3,229 (main Polish NGO in the area of human rights & civil society)

• Timeframe: 9 months• Partner NGO: Helsinki Foundation• Results:

• Trained students in court observation to conduct surveys in 11 cities, which resulted in 54 reports on court performance

• Created handbook of good practices in court monitoring• United youth leaders of NGOs from 6 Eastern European countries for 2-day

seminar with senior level experts and practitioners. • Lessons learned: need more flexible timetable for planned actions of partner

NGO and to accommodate lengthy internal Bank procedures