Impact Report 2024
Take a look at our full report to learn more about the number of youth businesses supported by the YBI network in 2024.
Policy Paper: Incentivizing and supporting green and social business models among young entrepreneurs to advance the Sustainable Development Goals
In this paper, Youth Business International (YBI) and Development Solutions, our member in Mongolia, call for a concerted effort to support youth-led green and social enterprises as critical drivers of sustainable economic growth. With approximately 10 million social enterprises globally generating around $2 trillion annually and creating nearly 200 million jobs, the potential for young […]
Youth Business International and Global Entrepreneurship Network Youth Entrepreneurship Trends and Policy Framework
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting economic landscapes, young entrepreneurs find themselves at the forefront of innovation and change. At the same time, they face substantial challenges to turn innovations into profitable and scalable businesses. Now is the time to harness the power of young entrepreneurs as more young people than […]
YBI’s Impact Report 2023
In 2023, the Youth Business International global network supported over 150,000 young people in developing their entrepreneurship skills and helped more than 65,000 start or strengthen their businesses. Ambitious Strategy and Significant Achievements 2023 marked the first year of YBI’s ambitious strategy to create a million jobs by starting and scaling 250,000 youth-led businesses by […]
Policy Paper: Alternative Financing for Informal Businesses to Propel Youth Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this paper, Youth Business International (YBI) and Somo, our member in Kenya, call for alternative financing schemes for informal youth-led businesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Informal businesses form a substantial part of the economy and in Sub-Saharan Africa 85% of employment is informal, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). These businesses, despite being unregistered […]
Financial Health for Young Entrepreneurs – Our Learnings
Financial health for young entrepreneurs means that they are aware of and able to access appropriate resources required to start and grow their enterprises, can manage their business finances, and have confidence in their financial future. Youth Business International and its members as part of the Futuremakers global youth economic empowerment initiative, funded by Standard Chartered […]
Models for scaling the impact of youth entrepreneurship programmes
Commissioned by Youth Business International (YBI) in 2018, the report reviews experiences and success factors in scaling entrepreneurship programmes within and outside of the YBI network, and provides case studies of models for replication together with a scaling framework. This report provides a set of recommendations covering key approaches to scale, including: We hope this piece […]
Exploring the impact of voluntary business mentoring on young entrepreneurs
Equipping the entrepreneurs of tomorrow Young entrepreneurs are vital to global economic development. They are helping to shape the economies of the future, to ensure sustainable growth and to guarantee prosperity in both their home countries and further afield. But with millions of unemployed young people around the world, their potential is going unrealised. This […]
Supporting Young Entrepreneurs: What works?
It is not easy to ignore the fact that 73 million young people around the world are unemployed; and 156 million young workers live in poverty. Quality interventions to support young entrepreneurs are needed more than ever. Many initiatives exist to promote youth entrepreneurship as a solution to global socioeconomic development goals, but there is still a gulf […]
Youth Enterprise: Unlocking Ambitions, Creating Growth
Our research, which was published during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2013 compares entrepreneurial attitudes, ambitions and activity of young people in the UK against counterparts in other leading enterprise nations, based on latest data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The study, Unlocking Ambitions, Creating Growth, found that nearly one in five (18%) 18-34 year olds […]