With a captivating theme: Creating Markets…Unleashing entrepreneurship, this year’s Youth Employment Summit (YES) 2006 will convene in the Capital city of Kenya, Nairobi for the 2nd time in Africa and the 3rd edition in the series of the Summit initiated by the Education for Development Center (EDC, an international nonprofit research and
development organization in Newton, Mass. USA) to address the pressing issues of youth unemployment.

This year’s summit which would hold from the 13 – 16 September, 2006 will feature effective best practices and innovative strategies from Development organizations,
International banks, YES Country Networks in over 60 countries, employment experts and practitioners, amongst others.

The Summit which would address unemployment at the highest level, especially among the young adult would work to proffering ways and solutions to youth unemployment through building youth capacity for employment, entrepreneurial culture, building trade capacities, attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Eco-entrepreneurship.

The Youth Employment Summit (YES) Executive Director, Poonam Ahluwalia, while commenting on the essentiality of building an entrepreneurial culture said: “Building an
entrepreneurial culture is essential in order to create job in the public and private sector to absorb the youth in the labour market.”

She said that the YES Kenya Summit will provide a unique venue for young leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world to work collaboratively with policymakers and
researchers to create innovative, long term solutions to the critical problem of youth unemployment.

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