"Education is the great engine of personal

development. It is through education thatthe daughter of a peasant can become adoctor, that the son of a mine worker can

become the head of the mine, that a child offarm workers can become the president of a

great nation. It is what we make out ofwhat we have, not what we are given, that

separates one person from another”-Nelson Mandela

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Nigeria’s Infographics

Nigeria Economic Landscape Demographics Youth Landscape

Lagos accounts for 39% of the total IGR in Nigeria ($1.3B

LAGOS

Nigeria is ranked as the 30th-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the 23rd- larges t in terms o f purchasing power parity.

NIGERIA

23RD30TH

Nigeria is a member of 3G c o u n t r i e s ( G l o b a l G r o w t h Generating countries) which have been identified as the world’s b igges t sou rces o f g row th potent ia l and o f pro f i tab le i n v e s t m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s (2010 – 2050).Source: National Bureau of Statistics, 2017 ; WDI infographics 2017.

Nigeria currently has 195.8MM people.

Economically active working population(15 - 64 years of age) stood at 111.1millionBetween ages 15-34years approximately10.96million and 11.68millionpeople are unemployed and under employedrespectively.The unemployment rate for the youth as at 3rd quarter of 2017 stood at 53.3%The under employment rate for the youth as at 3rd quarter of 2017 stood at 56.5%

Adults 36-64 Youth 18-35

Unemployment

Adults 36-64Youth

15-34

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30

40

50

60

70

Source: National Bureau of Statistics, 2017 ; WDI infographics 2017.

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Unemployment Underemployment

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OVERVIEW OF THE NYSC SCHEME

MEANING AND OBJECTIVE

NYSC – National Youth Service Corps

The program, which has been in existence for over 40years was initially established in the then Yakubu Gowon regime in bid to reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after her civil war.

AIMSOver the years, in addition to its original theme, the scheme now focuses on equipping the youths with the right mental attitude, knowledge and skill sets needed to take on the work force.

The NYSC is probably the only government institution that has p r e s e n c e ( i n f r a s t r u c t u r e & personnel) in all the 774 LGAs of the country today.

The Scheme runs for a period of one year in all 36 states of the Federation.

NYSC SAED (SKILLS ACQUISITIONS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT)

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5 key Intervention areas

Sensitization Training & Advisory

Access to Finance

Access to non-financial enterprise development

Policy Influencing

12 growth sectors of the NYSC SAED program

Cu

lture

& To

urism

Po

wer &

E

nerg

yFilm &

Photography

Environment

Power &

Energy

Educatio

n

Ag

ro-A

llied

Au

tom

ob

ile

Construction

The SAED program has an ambitious vision to

enable the creation of at least 20,000 sustainable enterprises annually, and get a minimum of 150,000 corps members to be

productively engaged, generating sustainable economic value

through employment or entrepreneurship, annually,

in these sectors.

Information & Communications Technology

Food Processing

& Preservation

Hortic

ulture

&

Landsc

apin

g

NYSC SAED IN ALLIGHMENT TO THE SDG’s

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ALIGNMENT TO THE SDGs

The SAED program seeks to contribute meaningfully to the attainment of the Sustainable Development goals.

SDG-4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all

SDG-8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

The NYSC was established to, promote self- reliance in the Nigerian youth through entrepreneurial development and skill acquisition.  It is in recognition of these realities that the N Y S C s e t u p a S k i l l A c q u i s i t i o n & Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme as pragmatic response to the youth unemployment challenge with a mission to create a platform that will facilitate access of young graduates to requisite skills and re sou rces neces sa r y f o r succes s fu l entrepreneurship as a means of enhancing national development. 

QualitativeEducation

Good Job andEconomy Growth

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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NYSC SCHEME

SAED

CDS

Employment Creation

Loan Provision

National Consciousness

SAED- Skills Acquisitions and Entrepreneurial Development. This is a program used to equip corps members with entrepreneurial skills. This was developed to help curb unemployment.

Community Development Service- which is to harness the youths to contribute initiative and manpower towards the development of their host communities

PPA -Primary place of assignment. Corps members are placed in companies and other organizations during their service year and sometimes get retained after service.

The scheme in partnership with Bank of Industry, provides loan at a lower interest rate for those who may have viable business proposals.

By constantly reminding the nation of the need to promote national unity and develop especially the rural areas, the scheme pricks the conscience of the nation to its responsibility.

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INADEQUATE ENTREPRENEURIAL AND FINANCIAL LITERACY AMONGST THE SAED TRAINERS

Some of the SAED trainers do not have knowledge of entrepreneurship and financial literacy and so the youths are not trained on how to start and sustain a small enterprise and see it grow into a large company. They are not equipped with business acumen to sustain the taught craft and a good number of the businesses fail within a year of establishment.

REDEPLOYMENT IN RELATION TO THE SAED PROGRAM

Almost 60% of the youths transfer back to their state of domicile or a close proximity to their state right after the camp making it impossible to continue the SAED program started off in the camp.

INSUFFICIENT PLACE OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT

Sometimes the organizations or companies turn down the corps members posted to them. They end up applying in companies that have little or no relation to their area of expertise.

Challenges of NYSC

CHALLENGES OF NYSC

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Why NYSC Corps Members ?

Why NYSC Corps Members ?

Demographic

Age:Gender: Position: Income:

Education: Civil status:

18 - 3045% Female / 55% MaleFresh Graduates< N20,000 nairaBSC or higherSingle/Married

Psychographic

They are aspiring world changers.They are very active on the internetMost are hardworking with a passion to succeed.They are aware of the prevailing unemployment situation and so very interested in getting entrepreneurial skills

Opportunities

Over 300,000 youth are deployed each yearMost organized youth forum / umbrella in Nigeria. Represents the echelon of entrepreneurial potentialThey are within the working agepopulation.

Solutions for NYSC/New Graduates

..transforming Nigeria’s industrial sector

CURRENT/FUTURE PROJECTS

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OVERVIEW OF NYSC/NEW GRADUATES

Program Title

Intervention segment

Intervention Type/ Scope

Intervention Scale

Start and Improve

Your Business

Enable Potentialand existing

Entrepreneursto start viableBusinesses

Pilot Cohort600 NYSC

Corp memberswere trained

NYSC Corpmembers

E-learning

Develop digital and

EntrepreneurialSkills

NYSC/NewGraduates

Vocational Skills/Digital Literacy

EntrepriseDevelopment

Building Sustainable

Local Economy

NYSC/NewGraduates

BusinessDevelopment

Services

ProvidingMentorship for

Ongoing Business.Development

Services

RenewableEnergy/InternetAccess

ProvidingRenewable

Energy in all36 camps/Free

Wifi from Google

NYSC/NewGraduates

Career Advisory

Giving CareerAdvice andCounseling.Building Career/Professional Skills

NYSC/NewGraduates

NYSC/NewGraduates

e-learningEnterprise Development

Training Corpmembers and

fresh graduateson how to be

digital literates

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INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION’S (ILO) INTERVENTION

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As a strategic response to solving the plague of unemployment challenges in Nigeria, the ILO, General Electric, NYSC and Cognity Advisory has entered into a consortium with the purpose of stimulating the growth of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria through hands-on entrepreneurship trainings design by the ILO

The ILO intervention program (known as ILO-SIYB) in Nigeria rides on the availability of huge population of youth entrepreneurs who are Corp Members (CM) as a means of reaching a sizable outreach of targeted entrepreneurs for the program.

The International Labor Organization’s (ILO’s) Start and Improve Your Business (S IYB) program is a sys tem of interrelated training packages and supporting materials for small-scale entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses. SIYB aims to increase the v iab i l i t y o f smal l and medium e n t e r p r i s e s t h r o u g h s o u n d management principles suitable for the environment of developing countries.

INTRODUCING THE SIYB PROGRAMME

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ILO’s MODEL TECHNIQUES

Start Your BusinessIntended for entrepreneurs with business ideas but awaiting establishment.

Generate Your Business IdeaAspiring entrepreneurs whoneed training to develop concrete business ideas.

GYBI

Improve Your BusinessIntroduces already practicing entrepreneurs to good principles of business. management

IYB

Expand Your BusinessGives growth-oriented entrepreneurs the practical tools for business growth.

EYB

SYB

GOAL: To create more decent employment for women and men particularly in emerging economies.

MECHANICS:With an estimated outreach in over 130 countries. 15 million entrepreneurs an a network of over 300 Master Trainers, 3000 Partner Organizations, 65,000 trainers as well as a range of materials translated into over 40 languages, it is one of world’s largest Business Development Services programmes in this field.

OBJECTIVES:Enabling potential and existing small entrepreneurs to:

Start viable businessTo increase the profitability of their enterpriseTo enhance productivity

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

The Main Facilitator trainsThe SIYB Master Trainers

Master trainers train SIYB trainers in Business

Development Service providers

SIYB trainers train clients. SME’s and start-ups

GE’S INTERVENTION ON TRAINING OF TRAINERS (TOT) FOR NYSC STAFF

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SIYB Master Trainer, Mr. Kyalibulha B. Stephen, facilitating a session during the SIYB TOT Kaduna.

Mr. Kyalibulha Stephen (ILO Master Trainer) facilitating a session on Marketing the SIYB Programme

The TOT was conducted as a result of the need for NYSC staff to develop their capacities in the delivery of the SIYB program through her Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED).

General Electric sponsored the training of staff members of NYSC on the SIYB programme. These interventions were geared towards ensuring that NYSC adopts a standardized entrepreneurship curriculum that enhances sustainability of small enterprises for the Corps Members and empower them to create their own decent jobs and or be more employable

The trainers thereafter, trained Corps Members on entrepreneurship and business management skills to ultimately enhance their business profitability and sustainability in a bid to solve the unemployment problem among the youth

40 trainers who were developed duringthis SIYB TOT were observed by two SIYB Master TrainersThe entire 40 trainers were found competent to organize, conduct, and design the SIYB training interventions following the ILO-SIYB training standard. The SIYB Master Trainers assessment recommended the entire 40 trainers to be SIYB Certified Trainers.

FOLLOW UP ON GE SPONSORED SESSION CERTIFICATION /TRAINING OF ENTREPRENEURS

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Trainer Ehimwenma Itohan During One Of The Iyb Costing Sessions

Some excited Corp Members pose in a photo after receiving their Certificate in Ede 

A cross section of Corp Members at the IYB Training closing ceremony at the NYSC camp in Ede, Osun state.

Model: Improve Your Business

Time Frame: 24th May 2018 - 12th June 2018

Focus: Split into a class of 15, each class having a lead and an assistant trainer.

Target: 600 entrepreneurs - 300 in Osun and Abuja respectively

Trainees were selected through a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) by the Lead Trainers

The TNA revealed that the trainees were well equipped to understand the language of the materials.

They were between the ages of 16-35 and had small businesses. Each were facing challenges in diverse areas e.g. marketing, business record keeping, etc.

600 entrepreneurs were reached out through this intervention and 100% attendance was recorded.

The program covered three IYB modules

Business plan was co-opted to enable the entrepreneurs linked to financial institutions like CBN, BOI etc.

TRAINEES OUTCOMESTRATEGY

FEED BACK ON GE SPONSORED SESSION- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF OSUN AND EDO STATES

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How do you calculate

the total costs of your

product

How do you handle

the receipts of

purchases

What do you do to

promote your sales

How do you calculate

your total profits

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EDE

Source Albert Hylint Consortium

Two locations were used for the evaluation study (one intervention site and one comparison site). The intervention site was the NYSC orientation camps and its environs in Ede, Osun State, and the comparison site was the NYSC, Edo State.

When asked how they calculate the total cost of product, 69 out of 75 in Osun could while in Edo only 53 persons out of 105.

When asked how they handle the receipts of purchases all 75 persons in Osun knew the proper procedure while only 22 out of 105 persons in Edo knew.

When asked how they promote the sales of their product, about 73 in Osun knew various techniques while only 19 in Edo had the know how.

When asked how to calculate their total cost, 72 in Osun could while only 28 in Edo could.

ONGOING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT

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After the entrepreneurship training, the corps members through their business plans are then given opportunities to access funding and loans

There is need for access to market post production, as the ultimate goal is either consumption or employment of service, whichever is being provided

Funds made available either from cooperatives formed through LAPO or RIBY or direct funding from BOI AND CBN

In partnership with LAPO and RIBY the corps members will be linked to other value chain in similar markets to network

ACCESS TO MARKET

ACCESS TO FUND

RIBY- Introducing The NYSC Corps members Cooperative

To enable corps members have quick access to funds

To imbibe/create saving culture amongst the youths.AIMS

HOW IT WORKS

Features Description Corps saver Corpspreneur

Plans

Savings

Interest On Savings

Duration

Loans

Interest On Loans

Loan Origination Charge

Moratorium

Monthly

Per annum

Saving duration before eligibility for loans

Loan limit

Repayment periodFrom external lenders

Grace period before payback

N1000-N4999

4%

200% of accumulated savings

6 months

External lenders rate +3%

1 month

5 Month

N5000

8%

300% of accumulated savings

12 months

2 month

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NYSC CORPS MEMBER POST - SERVICE

Reduction of unemploymentYouth empowermentIncrease acceptance of SchemeCreation of more partnership possibilities

Encourages savingsAccess to funds and funding partnersBusiness advisory supportSocial support/ economic groupsAccess to business and personal loans

Continuation of cooperative post service Business advisory supportAvenue for business expansionFurther access to loan

BENEFITS

INTRODUCING SIYB E-LEARNING PROGRAMME

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Material based Entrepreneurship training

Provide Tablets at discounted rates

Validated online entrepreneurship training

Provide funds for the purchase of Tablets

Provides highly discounted data bundle

learning portal and free digital literacy certificate courses

Provide platform for the training of Corps members

Responsible forMobilizing privatesector intervention

DIGITAL LEARNING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING –BEYOND THE SCOPE OF CLASSROOM

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OBJECTIVES

POTENTIAL

SIYB

MECHANICS

Established to curb the deficits in the knowledge of digital skills among the youths

Rise in Employability skills.Functional and digital skill acquisition

Trainees can continuously be trained both in and out of the classroom

Initiative is in partnership with S A M S U N G , A I R T E L & MICROSOFT to provide tablets mobi le da ta a t a heav i l y discounted price for the period of one year during which all the digital certification courses must have been studied

NEED TO SCALE UP

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We have succeeded in reaching out to a total of 3000 Corps members till date

There is greater need for expansion to cater for over 300,000 person deployed annually.

This can be achieved by increasing the number of trainers from 40 to a 1500, over a period of 3 years; that way the trainers can reach more corps members

Ultimate aim is to ensure that at least one third of the total corps member mobilized start a viable business that can employ 3-10 persons

Reduction of unemployment rate.

CONCLUSTION

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Thank You

Ese Pupo!

Nagode! Daalu! Meibaka! Sosongo!

QUESTION AND ANSWER

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