AIESEC Ethiopia presentation to Addis Ababa University

AIESEC in Ethiopia | Addis Ababa University, EiABC P.O. Box 518 | phone: 01 12781870 | [email protected] | www.aiesec.org/ethiopia

The International Platform for Young People to Explore and Develop their Leadership Potential AIESEC


AIESEC in Numbers

Active in over 2100 universities

Active in 110 countries 16,000

leadership opportunities

20,000 exchanges annually

470 conferences

60,000 high-potential students

Network of 1,000,000 alumni

Over 200,000 placements

AIESEC Vision:

Peace and Fulfilment of

Humankind’s potential

AIESEC Values:

Striving for excellence

Activating Leadership

Acting Sustainably

Enjoy Participation

Living Diversity

Demonstrating Integrity

“The United Nations has long

recognised that the imagination, ideals

and energies of young men and women

are vital for the continuing development

of the societies in which they live.

AIESEC has contributed to this

development by serving as an agent of

positive change through education and

cultural exchange to develop a broader

understanding of cultural, socio-

economic and business management

issues.”

Kofi Annan, Former Secretary General,

The United Nations

AIESEC in General www.aiesec.org/ethiopia

AIESEC is the world’s largest student-run organization. Apolitical,

independent and no-profit, AIESEC is the international platform for

young people to explore and develop their potential to have a positive

impact on society.

In partnership with business and higher education, AIESEC has over

60 years of experience in developing students into globally minded

leaders. AIESEC’s innovative development process consists of

unmatched leadership experiences and global internships.

With a focus on building personal networks and exploring the direction

and ambition of their future, AIESEC has an innovative approach to

engaging and developing young people into the leaders needed today

and tomorrow.

The Internship Program For over 60 years companies have relied on the Global Exchange

Program to meet their employment needs by gaining access to a global

talent pool of the best and brightest young responsible leaders. The

Global Exchange program is a tailored and reliable recruitment and

community integration process for high quality international internships.

Companies of all sizes have used AIESEC to build their leadership

pipeline, increase competitiveness

Opportunities for Universities As a student organization, AIESEC is partnering all around

the world with diverse public and private Universities to

offer them and to their students access to:

• Global internship program: providing students and

recent graduates with international internship

• Global Community Development Program: providing

students with short term voluntary experience abroad

• Team Member & Team Leader Program

• Learning Networks

• International Positioning


AIESEC in Ethiopia was founded in 2008 by cooperation between AIESEC

Italy and KPMG Italy, with the support of gtz and various AIESEC Alumni

from AIESEC International Network in Ethiopia AIESEC began official

operations in Ethiopia in 2011, after being recognized and registered as an

Ethiopian Society under the Ministry of Justice, Agency of charities and

society. AIESEC Ethiopia is currently active in Addis Ababa university,

EiABC (Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building and Construction).

Moreover, Addis Ababa University as well as other private universities in

the city of Addis Ababa are in close discussions with AIESEC to offer their

students unique opportunities in integrated international professional and

leadership experience which are parallel to their career path.

AIESEC Membership Information

AIESEC members are selected through a rigorous process, with a

ratio of 1 out of 10. The candidates are evaluated on the basis of a

Global Competency Model internationally applied to guarantee the

same quality standard of individuals. This Model of evaluation

assesses five main competencies that are Entrepreneurial Outlook;

Proactive Learning; Emotional intelligence; Social Responsibility;

Global Mind-set.

AIESEC members have the opportunity to join different programs to

undergo a development experience and better fit their academic and

career path.

The four main Programs offered to students and recent graduates are

Team Member Program; Team Leader Program; Global Internship

Program; Global Community Development Program

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GLOBAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

This Program is addressed to all the students and recent graduates

willing to live a professional experience abroad. Through this

program, AIESEC offers them a Cross-cultural and professional

experience. The internship can be in different fields as

Management, Finance, Marketing, Education, Engineering, and

Medical.

Logistic Details:

From 6 weeks to 18 months

The intern receives a salary according to life cost of the hosting

country

Delivery time to leave: 2 to 3 months

Costs: 120 $

Our international programs represent the most self-developing

experience we are offering. Every year more than 20.000 students

take the opportunity to live and work abroad in our partner

companies, NGOs, institutions.

GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

This Program is addressed to students and recent graduates willing to

live a volunteering experience abroad to contribute positively to social

change in another country. Through this program, AIESEC offers them

a Cross-cultural and positive impact and personal development.

Logistic Details:

From 6 weeks to 18 months

The intern can receive a salary or have food and accommodation

costs covered

Delivery time to leave: 1 to 2 months

Costs: 80 $

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Talent Pre-selection All candidates in AIESECʼs talent pool have been pre-selected based on their education, skills, language certifications, and leadership experience by a review board of professionals.

Needs Identification Your company identifies the desired internship profile specifying needs for education, languages, skills, work experience, regional background, internship duration and timing.

Intern Selection Within two weeks, AIESEC will provide a short list of the best candidates and arrange interviews. AIESEC will continue to identify candidates until the organization has selected the best profile to match.

Pre-arrival Services Once an intern is selected, AIESEC takes care of all the logistics including visa arrangements, accommodations, and airport pickup. Before arrival, interns participate in cultural preparation, integration, and goal setting seminars.

Community Integration This is a key characteristic that sets AIESECʼs program apart. Interns become involved in the local community and participate in AIESEC activities ensuring they have an intense development experience, not just a job away from home.

Ongoing Services AIESEC will facilitate service evaluations for your company and your intern before, during, and after the internship. AIESEC is committed to ongoing communication for receiving and responding to your feedback.

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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE



TEAM MEMBER PROGRAM

Through this program AIESEC offers to student a practical team

leader experience to gain personal and professional development.

In this program a young university student can lead his team to:

1) Sell Programs to companies and organizations

3) Deliver a social impacting project

4) Deliver a student recruiting in Universities

5) Organize training programs for other young people

6) Organize events and conferences for 20 to 300 students

TEAM LEADER PROGRAM

Through this program AIESEC offers to youth a practical team

experience to gain hard and soft skills and access the global network

of AIESEC

A young student works in a team to:

1) Be involved in activities in University

2) Take part into international trainings

3) Sell and manage partnerships with the national and multinational

organizations

4) Represent the country

5) Develop professional skills in functional areas as International

relations, external relations, non-corporate relations, communication,

finance, human resources

AIESEC focuses its activities to develop future leader's skills as

entrepreneurial outlook, global mind-set, emotional intelligence, social

responsibility and proactivity in learning.

GLOBAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

From virtual discussions lead on a global level and through the team

experiences lived by taking part in our programs, AIESEC offers to

youth a unique global learning environment to explore and develop

their talent!

By offering its programs, AIESEC aims to develop leadership

competencies to improve professional and personal characteristics.

These characteristics are our focus during their entire career in the

organization to support their personal growth.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT



OUR IMPACT IN ETHIOPIA


“Weaving threads of Peace” it’s a social development project

focused on women empowerment, families strengthening and

children education developed by AIESEC with a US NGO,

Connected in Hope foundation. It is addressed to previous fuel

wood carriers women who are currently producing scarfs and bags

to sustain their families.

AIESEC is providing a total of 16 international students or recent

graduates to the women empowerment centre to offer English,

maths and art lesson to their children who could not access the

public primary school. In order to sustain the costs of the teachers

and to scale up the market of the centre, AIESEC is promoting

and facilitating the selling of the scarfs to its international network

of students and partner companies, investing on it as a CSR

activity. The goal of the project is to allow these women to scale

up the production, get the knowledge to plan t and create the

necessary funds to sustain the education for their children for the

next year. Moreover, supplying the international teachers to the

informal school AIESEC aims to still offer a basic education to

these disadvantaged children. KPMG already supports the project.

Willing to empower young people to be change agents for their

society, AIESEC gives to students the opportunity to create

international social development project to have a direct impact in

the community and an indirect impact on the students themselves

as a way to develop their leadership skills.

AIESEC in Ethiopia is currently realizing project focused on social

issues affecting the Ethiopian reality in Addis Ababa.

Addis Without Borders it’s a project focused on education

aiming to give to Ethiopian primary and secondary school students

the opportunity to access high quality English classes in their

school having the unique chance to attend presentation of foreign

countries and cultures. The goal of the project is to supply both

public and private schools of Addis Ababa with 20 international

teachers during the scholar year to impact more than 10.000

students. Carter & Benson is already sponsoring the project.


Starting from March 2012 AIESEC in Ethiopia will be involved in

other piloting projects to impact the society, with a focus on

improving the sanitary and medical sector through international

medical students or recent graduates coming to Addis Ababa to

work together with the students of AAU in supporting local

communities.

swITch it’s a project focused on IT alphabetise, already spread in

other 14 African Countries. By this project AIESEC aims to give to

unemployed youth from Addis Ababa the opportunity to join a two

months course to get the basis to work with a computer and to be

more qualified in looking for a job. The first round of the project

realized in June – July 2011 has already impacted more than 200

young people. The goal of the project is to impact other 1000

youth of the city. This project has been co-created by AIESEC

together with Microsoft.

Thanks to this experience, AIESEC is supplying a total of 12

international volunteers to 2 primary public schools of the city to

teach IT basis to children and teachers who have been already

provided with laptops by the project “One laptop per child”. Thanks to AIESEC, 3200 children will get IT trainings.

EntrepreNOW is a project addressed to university students in

order to develop their entrepreneurial skills and empower them to

be actively involved in the economical growth of the country as

protagonist. AIESEC will organize together with the university a

two month training initiative managed by international student with

economical and project management background who will present

the characteristic of the entrepreneurial environment in their

country and a business competition. The winner of that will really

get access to a fund to start up their business. The aim of the

project is to offer to students concrete opportunities for their future

as well as support the international positioning of the university.

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AIESEC Ethiopia presentation to Addis Ababa University