A generation with the tools to build for itself.

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Our 2025 goal

One million jobs.A quarter-million businesses.

The target we set the whole network: support the start-up or growth of 250,000 youth-led businesses, and create a million jobs through them.

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Youth-led businesses started or strengthened toward the 2025 target.

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Jobs created by the businesses our members support.

We are not a single programme. We are a system that lets what works travel.

Independent member organisations run the work in their own countries, in their own languages, with their own networks.

YBI holds a shared standard of quality and links every member so a breakthrough in Nairobi reaches a founder in Manila.

We track businesses, jobs and survival rates, then invest more in the approaches the evidence shows actually work.

A 10-year vision

A bold pan-African initiative with one aim: to make Africa the best continent in the world to be a young entrepreneur.

One founder

Two years ago I was selling from a single table. Today I have nine people on payroll and buyers in three countries.

Amara Diallo Recycled-packaging maker, Accra, Ghana

Port of Spain, Trinidad

An app that connects fishers straight to restaurants, cutting out the middleman.

Kraków, Poland

Bags made from recycled textiles, now stocked in shops across three cities.

Malmö, Sweden

Low-cost hearing technology built for rural clinics that big brands ignore.

The evidence is here. The network is ready. What we grow next depends on who stands behind it.