1. Contacts Email: info@oayouth.org URL: www.oayouth.org Tel: +27 11 023 4260 JHB, RSA Organisation of African Youth (OAYouth) The New Vision for Africa Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

2. About OAYouth Founded in 2009 as a youth NGO OAYouth formation was guided by the African Youth Charter Is member-based, Has membership in 28 African countries www.oayouth.org OBJECTIVES To motivate and inspire youth to be active in policy development To unify and represent the young people and youth organisations in Africa To empower youth through leadership development and entrepreneurship

3. Cement partnership of youth organisations, governments, NGOs and academic institutes Develop the Continental Network as a platform for information, expertise and knowledge sharing Develop synergies of youth activities Strengthen youth-led capacity building initiatives, men and women, and support them to be able to function as successful social entrepreneurs Build OAYouth to become an umbrella platform, speaking on behalf of youth in Africa, to address youth issues in an integrated and creative manner Unifying African Youth

4. Global Youth Innovation Network Create and support an enabling environment under which young people can act at their own terms. Facilitate exchange of experiences, learning, and working for young entrepreneurs. Showcase of young farmers and entrepreneurs succeeding, despite rigorous institutional and economical impediments Setting up a Global Youth Fund for youth in Agriculture WWW.GYIN.ORG

5. African Youth Day Conference November 2011 Recommendations to Donors and Government Support of youth organisations to sustain project implementation Develop virtual platforms as one stop shop for information access Development of the entrepreneurial spirit around agriculture business among rural youth Set up councils within donors agencies to revise good projects from youth, that maybe badly written to reject them. Develop a pool of technical advisers for youth who need to venture into agriculture

6. African Youth Day Conference November 2011 Recommendations to Donors and Government Youth need financing for their ventures. The most common comment by the youth was that lack of funding was an important obstacle for young entrepreneurs. Create a Global Youth Innovation Fund (GYIF) to support and fund the projects of young innovative entrepreneurs. Create a network of all associations which work in the field of the entrepreneurship. Provide tax exemption for at least 3 years for youth.

7. KEY COMPONENTS Entrepreneurship Education and Training Market and Business Development services Advocacy, Linkages, Partnership, Communication Agriculture, Sustainable Development Resources Mobilization for youth and Access to Capital Role Modelling, Mentorship and Coaching Youth Agriculture Entrepreneurship

8. OAYouth Projects in Agriculture 60 Hectare Farm in Rustenburg South Africa 10 Hectares in Bulawayo Zimbabwe 45 Hectares Murewa,

9. ADLUCK POULTRY PROJECT

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