On the occasion of International Youth Day, on 12 August 2010, Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW), a youth led environmental organization launched “Youth Entrepreneurship Campaign 2020 or YEC 2020”.

Target Youth:
• Unemployed but highly passionate youth
• Youth trying for foreign employment
• Young migrant workers who have gone to gulf or foreign countries on high interest loan with dreams of making money but returned home with empty handed and mental illness.

Goal
The main goal of the campaign is to help each and every unemployed but passionate youth to be an entrepreneur so that he/she will be self employed and create jobs for other youths too.
Quantitatively, the campaign aims to support at least 2020 youth to make at least 2020 youth entrepreneurs by the year 2020.

Objective
The objectives of the campaign are:
• To reduce youth unemployment problems in the country
• To reduce the number of youth going for foreign employment especially in gulf countries
• To rehabilitate the youth/depressed or pessimistic youth who have returned Nepal from gulf countries

Methodologies
• Admission of youth as a TNW’s YEC 2020 Fellow
• Proper guidance and counseling to youth/Fellows
• Skill development training on the field of their interest like training on vegetable farming, bee keeping, floriculture, handicrafts, fruit processing, poultry farming, fishery etc.
• Entrepreneurship Skill Development Training
• Direct interaction of youth/fellow with the experts, the successful entrepreneurs of their field and field visit for direct observation
• Youth/fellow assistance to establish and register their business enterprise in the District Office of Homemade and Cottage Industries, Ministry of Industries
• Management of seed capital/collateral free loan and other necessary resources to start up an enterprise
• Management of a Business Mentor for the youth/Fellows to encourage and support them ,to provide relevant advice, information and business counseling, manage their own skills in order that they maximize their potential, develop further skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be.
• Regular follow up and support to scale up their performance
• Promotion of their entrepreneurship initiative through media
• Reward the most successful entrepreneur with “ Emerging Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award” on the International Youth Day

Please read:
Concept paper on YEC 2020(PDF)
Success stories of YEC 2020 (PDF)