ANNUAL GLOBAL YOUTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES SUMMIT

The Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit is designed to catalyze the impact, scale, and sustainability of youth economic
opportunity programming. It brings together key sectoral actors to share concrete and transferable learning about emerging
advances and setbacks in a forthright, pragmatic, and interactive manner. It is a true global convening with signicant
representation of organizations and individuals from emerging economies.

10%

Funders

10%

5%

15%

Technical
Assistance Providers

Other

Level 2: Knowledge capital

99% of participants plan to apply some of the promising practices they learned at the Summit to their work.

90%

3%

of participants shared and learned information with people at the Summit with whom they would not otherwise have had the
opportunity to interact.

Policy Makers

85%

of participants said the Summit has expanded the availability of Youth Economic Opportunities knowledge and resources.

9%

85%

of participants have a better understanding of promising practices in the Youth Economic Opportunities field as a result of their
Summit attendance.

Private Sector

SUSTAINABILITY

TECHNICAL CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

Making Cents operates the annual Summit on a not-for-prot,

cost-recovery basis. The Summits demand-driven nature is
demonstrated by the co-investment that individuals and
organizations make in the event. In 2014, 220 organizations,
including presenters, paid a registration fee to participate.

The 2014 Summit was structured along ve demand-driven

tracks - workforce development, nancial inclusion,
enterprise development, monitoring & evaluation, and gender
- and had two cross-cutting spotlights: The Power of
Technology and Youth in Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.

Making Cents uses the term co-investment because these

fees are the investments that have supported the
organization of the Summit in each of the past eight years.
This proven and sustainable model differs from convenings
linked to project funding, which tend to end when the project
funding ends, or other equally unsustainable models linked to
one-off grants from corporate or foundation funders.

Held over three days, the Global Youth Economic Opportunities

Summit uses technical workshops, plenary discussions,
networking events, and structured meetings to support the
exchange of concrete and transferable knowledge on the latest
research, lessons learned, promising practices, and key gaps
in knowledge and effective practice. As a result, participants
identify organizations to form new or deepen existing
partnerships with, gain visibility for their work, and improve
their technical capacity. In addition, participants report
greater motivation for their work.

In addition to participant registration fees, a range of

organizations contribute resources in the form of
sponsorships and in-kind support that is intended to advance
the Summit goals, increase visibility of sponsors work,
and/or provide sponsors with additional networking
opportunities.

COUNTRIES ORGANIZATIONS RESOURCES

SHARED
REPRESENTED REPRESENTED

38%

10%

Youth Under 29

PARTICIPANTS

465 67 220 144

Trainers, Educators
and Implementers

Researchers

Summit
results

Level 1: Knowledge Exchange

I learned new ways of dening and articulating soft skills competencies at the 2014 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit, which
informed my work by motivating me to share my new knowledge with my work colleagues to strengthen our existing workforce readiness
training programs.
- Sarah Havekost, Director, Program Development Unit, World Learning

I have applied what I learned at the MOOC session from the Summit by recommending junior colleagues to look into MOOCs offered by the
speakers. The majority of youth in ASEAN countries dont know about MOOCs and the no or low cost ways this can give them access to new
knowledge. The format and composition of the plenary was very effective the what, why and how was fully dissected.
- Abbas Ali Mohamed Irshad, Advisor, United States Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (Singapore)

Level 3: changed practiceS

95%

of participants feel an increased sense of connection to the Youth Economic Opportunities Community as a result of attending the
Summit.
Changes in practices as a result of attending learning activity and ways in which learning activity has influenced these changes.

I walked away from Making Cents Summit incredibly enriched. It is rare for an organization to be able to artfully bring together so many global
actors from so many diverse backgrounds. The connections I made with private sector stakeholders were especially interesting, as was oneon-one time with USAID staff from the Bureaus for Middle East and DCHA. Because of the Summit, I was able to gain knowledge that will enable
me to improve my program designs and be more responsive to donor needs.
- Maria Presley, Technical Officer, Civil Society and Peacebuilding, FHI 360

For Education For Employment, this year's Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit catalyzed new partnerships to bring needed youth
employment innovations to the Middle East and North Africa and advanced EFE's thinking about future opportunities for research and
evaluation."
- Jamie McAuliffe, President & CEO, Education For Employment (EFE)

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FUNDERS, NGOS, AND THE

PRIVATE SECTOR RECEIVE
SIGNIFICANT VISIBILITY AND
ADVANCE THEIR GOALS by
engaging in the summit

2014 SUMMIT partners

GLOBAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
SUPPORT THE SUMMITS GLOBAL
REACH AND REPRESENTATION

2014 MEDIA PARTNERS

2014 MEDIA REPRESENTATION

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