This action aims to build peace, mitigate radicalization, and contribute to Somalia’s stability by improving opportunities for youth to engage in peacebuilding, skills development, income generation, entrepreneurship, sports, and culture. The Specific objective is to ensure that youth have access to safe spaces where they can realize their full potential as productive and independent agents of positive change in Somalia.
Accelerating
Accelerating the socio-economic opportunities for Somali youth through investment grants and access to financial capita
Unleashing
Unleashing their idea into the marketplace to become a viable business model
Empowering
Empowering youth with the tailored trainings to unleash their full potentials and become leaders in the industry
Building
Building and growing next entrepreneurial generation
- Call for application
- Reviewing application
- Selecting the beneficiaries
- Grouping the beneficiaries
- Establishing common business ideas(groups)
- Analyzing each group’s business idea
- Designing business profile
- Designing logo for each startup idea
- Preparing pitching presentation
- Presenting the pitch
- Analyzing the pitch presentations
- Scoring the presentations and suggestions
- Preparation of budgets
- Business licensing
- Legal writing
- Opening bank accounts
- Improved access to youth-led initiatives and micro-financing that provide services and safe spaces in key locations across Somalia
- Youth In Somalia, particularly those furthest behind, have increased access to services and support to improve their income-generating opportunities
- Improved enabling environment for youth participation in public policy formulation and decision making at national, local, and community levels.
- Develop youth fund mechanism including its processes and structure
- Specialized training of youth candidates in different areas of entrepreneurship, social enterprises, and financial literacy.
- Conduct training packages for young men and women on soft life skills
- Organize an annual job fair for youth with public and private sector institutions
- Support youth-led organizations to develop and roll out an online employment platform
- Equip existing youth centers and hubs
- Establish co-working spaces for youth
- Conduct targeted capacity building for youth and youth-led organizations, including young women's organizations
- Establish a multi-media digital platform to promote youth participation in national debates and issues, including the social-economic effect of covid19
- Support the institutional capacity of the ministry of youth for both FGS and FMS to implement the national development plan and youth policy action plan
Dalbile Youth Initiative is a socio-economic program that rides on the sole objective of investing Somali youth with skills and resources. Its partnership between EU, UNFPA, iRise Hub, Shaqodoon, YPEER to accelerate the economic development for the youth.
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