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Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture Initiative

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Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Kampala, Uganda ;

Pages 39 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Category Corporate general interest

ISBN 978-92-5-136536-6

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/cc0677en

Synopsis (short abstract) Since 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been implementing a global project titled Integrated Country Approach for Boosting Decent Jobs for Youth under the Agrifood System (ICA). The project aims to enhance decent jobs through the economic and social empowerment of rural youth by enhancing the enabling environment for youth agripreneurship. FAO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), launched the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture Initiative (YIYA) in 2017. YIYA is a nationwide competition aimed at promoting youth employment in the agricultural sector by recognizing and supporting young agripreneurs, that are role models to their peers and are willing to work with and support other youth through knowledge-sharing, capacity building, and mentorship. The first cohort of youth champions (25), selected and awarded in 2017, received cash, technical training in different value chains, opportunities to exhibit their enterprises nationally and internationally, and participated in youth-focused policy dialogues on employment in agriculture. Based on the success of Round one of the YIYA initiative, FAO, MAAIF and partners embarked on a process to scale up the initiative into a national youth agripreneurs mentorship programme, to attract and inspire more young people to engage in the agriculture sector countrywide. In 2021, over 270 youth champions were selected from over 1 400 applications and 35 national youth champions were recognized and awarded with equipment, assets like animals, inputs and all of them have gained visibility and will further be supported to access opportunities.

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FAO. 2022. Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture Initiative. Kampala.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc0677en

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