{"id":4990,"date":"2016-11-30T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youthemploymentdecade.org\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:46:46","slug":"road-to-nairobi-2016-100-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youthemploymentdecade.org\/en\/repor\/road-to-nairobi-2016-100-days-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Nairobi 2016: 100 days later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Road to Nairobi 2016<\/strong> is an initiative to support young entrepreneurs that was launched on 21 March last, International Youth Day, to bringing together young entrepreneurs in eight African countries with agents of change, and to identify the youth employment related challenges and opportunities.
\nA coach with six young Europeans and Africans representing the Dutch Building Bridges Project<\/strong>, promoter of the project, departed from Johannesburg (South Africa) on 12 August and, from there, it travelled through Mozambique, Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya for 100 days. On the way, the travellers met 80 young entrepreneurs and local youth organisations that explained their business experiences related to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and their best practices to combat youth unemployment, which stands at 50 % in many countries in Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Final destination<\/h3>\n

The results of the trip will be submitted in the course of the first week of the second High Level Meeting (HLM2)<\/strong> of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC)<\/strong> in Nairobi (Kenya), an event that will attract high-level policy makers and directors from around the world. HLM2<\/strong> seeks to facilitate a more effective type of cooperation between nations, businesses and organisations to contribute to the SDGs, and more specifically, to the economic empowerment of women and young people.
\nWithin the framework of this event, four business projects selected on the Road to Nairobi 2016<\/strong> tour will be presented to changemakers and to corporate investors and leaders. The young people who have developed these proposals will be invited to share their experiences and show how they are heading solutions and actions to promote the co-creation of employment among young people in their countries during the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Kenya.<\/p>\n