Youth Employment Fund

THE YEF CAMPAIGNS

The YEF Campaign was launched by four delegates in a youth seminar that took place in Douala in 2005 amongst whom where; Gilbert EWEHMEH , the Founder and Executive Director, BUOH Cletus Zih , the North West Provincial Coordinator, NGEA Cipraine, Littoral Provincial Coordinator. To help reduce the rate of youthunemployment in Cameroon.

THE CAMPAIGN GOALS.
1. Develop capacity of youth to lead in-country youth employment initiatives
2. Promote youth employment to address key development challenges
3. Build in-country coalitions to develop national strategies addresssing youth unemployment
STRATEGY.
The YEF Campaign strives to build the individual capacity of youth in order to create sustainable livelihoods and to establish an entrepreneurial culture where young people move toward formal employment. The youth networks are a unique platform from which to accomplish this goal, the rural areas as been the target zone . And there has been extensive community re-investment. With the support of diverse stakeholders, networks organize and facilitate customized programming that relies on youths.
The implementation process. Since its launch in 2005, the YEF Campaign has validated the concept that young people, if given access to the right resources, can effectively craft their own advancement opportunities.An not be considered as liabilities but as asset.

]GET INVOLVE
You can get involved in YEF Provincial Networks in the three Provinces. These Networks are the structures through which youth, together with different partners and stakeholders, can take action to address the youth employment challenges in their Provinces, Division, and Sub Division. YEF Networks need the support of institutions and organizations, who have an interest to eradicate poverty hence achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as outlined by the United Nations. Creating opportunities for youth to have sustainable livelihoods as a means for reducing the levels of youth unemployment. You can Support the YEF Campaigns Networks by: Contributing ideas on youth employment
One of the greatest barriers with regards to youth employment is that it is still not seen as an urgent issue that needs the commitment and engagement of stakeholders at all levels. Generating dialogue on youth employment can have a great impact in inspiring others to take action on promoting youth employment. Such dialogues can be great platforms for launching action to promote youth employment.


Join the Global Alliance for Youth Employment

The Global Alliance for Youth Employment is a membership of diverse stakeholders including governments, NGOs, the private sector, youth organizations, and education and training institutions, who are committed to promoting youth employment. The actions that Global Alliance members take to promote employment for the world's youth.


Share effective practices in youth employment.

Do you know some of the youth employment policy, successful program or innovative projects that are promoting sustainable livelihoods for youth? We want to know about them, if any contact YEF for details.
Identify institutions and programs that can provide capacity building and skills training for youth.

Young people around the world are in great need of skill development and need to build their capacities to address the challenges they face in their communities. Many institutions exist around the world committed to capacity building and skills development. Urge such institutions that you may know of to work with a YEF branch Networks to give trainings and capacity building workshops in their localities to build and support them in taking action on youth employment matters. If you know of any institution that can provide important support of any kind Please contact YEF.

Help to raise funds and other resources for the YEF

Youth Employment Fund (YEF) is a non profit and non governmental Organisation founded on the 25th of November 2005 and legalised on the 1s t of December 2006 under the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation (MINATD) with registration number 001265/ADR/JO6/APPA.
YEF main objective is to fight against poverty as outlined in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015 by reducing the rate of youth unemployment. This is done through the following approaches as outlined below:

Career guidance This includes career planning, management and diversity. The rate of youth unemployment is alarming because of our poor educational system. Youths are not well guided on what to do at the elementary stage. Thus, they are bound to study or pursue their education blindly. That is why you find lots of graduates and undergraduates rooming the streets.
YEF seeks to guide and direct youth on this domain. Hence reduce youth unemployment. This is done through career courses and workshops.

Training; this is the root cause of youth unemployment .Many youths are rooming the streets because they do not have the necessary skills or professional training. As its major target The YEF seeks to empower or train youths especially those that are underprivileged after guiding them.

Placement; after a good career guidance and training, youths who are unable to create their own small businesses are placed to work in private institutions.

YEF also offers courses on leadership, entrepreneurship, so as to enable youths become better leaders and know how to manage their own activities after creating their own small businesses in their domain of specialisation.

YEF assists youths in the creation of personal enterprises this implies, job creation to gain self-employment. This is through YEF Minnie Grants Awards.

YEF organises Awards for employers which is entitled YEF Employers Awards. This is done in order to boost employment in the private sector.

PROJECT DOCUMENT

Contexte of justification.
Employment being the main and the most vital factor in an economy needs to be boosted. For this reason Youth Employment Fund a not for profit nongovernmental organisation with headquarters in Yaoundé, together with its partners, will organise an awards entitle YEF EMPLOYERS AWARDS 2008.

From recent studies carried out in the employment sector, the following problems or set-backs were identified;
• Tribalism and nepotism have been the other of the day as concern recruitment.
• Indecency in the job site.
• Inadequate protection to employees
• Exploitation of employees
• Employers do not implement the basic salary scale
• Most employees are not registered in the National Social Insurance Fund(NSIF)


OBJECTIVES OF THE AWARDS

1- General Objectives

To combat tribalism, nepotism and the exploitation of youths in the private sectors. And boost employment which is the back-bone of every economy.


2- Specific Objectives

• To ensure equal access to employment and equal work or equal value of work.
• Foster employer-employee relationship in the domain of dialogue (Social Action)
• Re-institute incentive schemes for employers
• Promote youth employment

• Recognise the efforts make by enterprises in other to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

TARGETS


• Enterprises, Companies and Schools.
• Youths.


METHODOLOGY

1-Visibility Studies.

To attend these goals, a dynamic team has been put in place to carry out visibility studies in the various enterprises with established enterprise survey questionnaires


2. Awards Category
• Highest employer of the year
• Employer with the highest number of youths employed
• Employer with highest registered employees in the National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF)
• Employer with good employment policy
• Employer with good working conditions. etc


3. Jury

A selected number of governments and private officials will be put in place for the selection criteria.

AWARDS EVENT

• Speeches
• Awards to winners
• Exchange / Debate
• Dinner


Reports.





YEF EMPLOYERS AWARDS 2008
COMPANY/ENTERPRISE SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE
I- COMPANY DETAILS
1. Company's name............................................................................................................................
2. Company type..................................................................................................................................
3. Headquarters...................................................................................................................................
4. Adresse.............................................................................................................................................
5. Number of branches.................................................................................


II- EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
1. Number of employees : ....................................................................................................................
2. Skilled employees :...........................................................................................................................
3. Unskilled employees :.......................................................................................................................
4. Gender:..............................Male...............................Female..........
5. Comment on Ethnicity/Regional employment...................................... .................................................
6. Number of disabled workers .............................................................................................................
7. Number of youth employed.................................................................................................................
8. How many workers do you recruit each year?....................................................................................................

9. Which criteria do you for recruitment? ...................................................................................................

10. Do you offer internship?.............................................................................................


III- SALARY DETAILS
1. What is the least income of your worker?............................................................................................................

2. What is the highest income of your worker?.......................................................................................................

3. How many of your workers are registered in the National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF)?


IV- PROBLEMATIC
1. What are some of the problems faced by your employees? ...........................................................................
2. What are some of the problems faced by your enterprise?.............................................................................

3. How do you intend to remedy these problems? ...............................................................................................
4. How is your employers – employees relationship?...........................................................................................
5. Do you have any suggestion to make as concerns this award?..................................................................

NB: The information that you will provide will be used for statistical purpose which will aid us accomplish the criteria and categories of the awards. YEF will not sell or disclose your details to any third party for commercial or other reasons.