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Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs (HSYGJ)

Supporting Youth Employment Projects
in Emerging Sectors – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
A way forward
2010

Message from the Founder
Dear Friends

The “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” Campaign is an initiative started 6 Feb, 2010 on the issue of
youth employment in Saudi Arabia.  The Group within a short period of span garnered
support from 27 members who are Business Owners,  Senior Executives, Management
Experts  from the private sector.  We intend to create Country Wide Networks that would
then play a key role in bringing diverse stakeholders together to fulfill our promise to our
youth.

Now is the time to strengthen the efforts of this campaign by pulling together our efforts and
resources. In this presentation I have outlined, why it is essential for us to come together
now and help this cause.  We are expecting the group to grow further and work towards
building capacity of young people, create awareness on opportunities the government is
creating for young people, support government agencies who work in the area of youth
employment and all other partners in the ecology will stand up and play their part.
Please view this as just a concept note that needs your comments and support.

In solidarity  Tajamul Hussain

Table of Contents Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

1. The Twin Opportunities
2. The “HSYGJ” Campaign’s Solution
3. The “HSYGJ” and The Centennial Fund
4. “HSYGJ” Background Information

Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

1. The Twin Opportunities

The Twin Opportunities Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is currently facing two sets of pressing problems:

Sector Development Needs Youth Unemployment
1. Diversification of Economic Base: • There are currently 5.5 million young
Development of the non-oil sectors to enhance high value-added production
and services and raise their contribution to exports remains one of the main Saudi people between the ages of 15-24
development challenge.
2. Development and Productive A little over a million of these young
Employment of Human Resources: men and women are unemployed
In recent years, there has been mismatch between outputs of education and
training and the skills and specializations required by development, leading to • Over the next decade, this number may
structural unemployment. This multi-dimensional issue is one of the main
development challenge. increase further, if corrective measures
3. Balanced Regional Development: are not taken today
Disparities in economic activity have encouraged internal migration from rural
to urban areas. The consequent immense increase in city populations and the
huge geographic expansion of the cities has put their services and facilities
• Young people are cognizant of the
under substantial pressure. Restoring regional balance is, therefore, one of the inequities of the system, and are
major challenge to sustainable development, calling for stimulation of economic
activity in the least developed regions. susceptible to association with the
4. Gender Inequality and Women's negative forces in their communities
Participation in Growth:
Roughly 50% of population – but 27% unemployed – promoting • It is critical that we develop youth skills,
women’s capabilities, and removing obstacles to participation of women in
development is one of the major challenges to sustainable growth. entrepreneurial mind-set is nurtured,
5. Information & Communications employment opportunities are created.
Technologies:
Internet penetration is less than 30% in Saudi Arabia. Further growth
in this area means huge business opportunities. ICT can be the next
growth driver for Saudi Arabia.

Imagine if we could solve both of these problems at once?


Unemployment of youth has far-reaching implications on the labor
market and the society at large. Youth unemployment contributes to
economic exclusion and poverty and increases the probability of future
joblessness. Youth unemployment results in the loss of a valuable
contribution to economic activity and growth from one of the most
productive elements in society. It obstructs the movement of young
people from adolescence to adulthood and in turn is a major cause of
crime and drug abuse. High levels of youth unemployment can also lead
to alienation from society and distrust of national developmental
processes. As a result, social cohesion is undermined.”

- International Labor Organization’s World Employment Report - 2009


2. The “HSYGJ” Campaign’s Solution

Introduction to the Campaign Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

• The “HSYGJ” Campaign is launched in Jeddah on 6 February, 2010
• The campaign is launched in response to the national challenge of youth unemployment
affecting nearly a million Saudi Youth.
• The campaign’s goals are to
build the capacity of young people to create sustainable livelihoods
establish an entrepreneurial culture where youth will work towards self employment
• It is our endeavor to develop national networks that will work with stakeholder groups
such as the government, business, academics, NGOs, UN agencies and other Int’l
organizations etc. to develop programs, and suggest policies for promoting youth
employment
• These “HSYGJ” groups will be supported by 5 regional coordinators, and with the
campaign Headquarters in Jeddah.
• Additionally, the Campaign will work with national and global partners to develop and
deploy effective programs that realize the following objectives
Develop capacity of youth to lead in-country youth employment initiatives
Promote (in-country) youth employment to address key development challenges
Build in-country coalitions to develop national strategies addressing youth
unemployment

We want to emphasize the issue of youth employment on the national agenda.

The Proposed Evolution of the Campaign

1. Identifying the 8. Building
issues Partnerships
2. Building consensus 9. Creating
employment
3. Generating ideas
generation models
4. Supporting the within network
development of 5 regions
regional networks
10. Building in-region
across country
self-reliance
5. Advocacy with
11. Replicating and
leaders and
scaling up
institutions
employment
6. Identifying sectors generating
for employment programs
and doing pilot
work
7. Establishing an
Academy – an
R&D hub for
generating
employment and
promoting
entrepreneurship


The Proposed 5 Regional Networks

Two core design principles that will drive our Campaign’s work:
the recognition that no one individual or institution can do the work alone;
working in partnership is essential
our belief in building self reliance and absorption capacity within proposed
regional networks

Proposed Networks:
1. Central Region : Riyadh
2. Western Region: Jeddah
3. Eastern Region: Dammam-Khobar
4. Southern Region: Abha
5. Northern Region: Tabuk

Events to be organized across regions every fortnight.


National Activities Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

Outreach & Engagement
• Building strategic alliances and fostering partnerships – grow from 28 members nationally
• Seeking and develop programs and projects
• Communicating information about youth employment and the “Help Saudi Youth Get
Jobs” Campaign through newsletters, press releases, the website, electronic discussion
groups, toolkits, and publications.
• Convening National Summits, organizing regional and national training workshops and
Forums.

Knowledge Development
• Designing and implementing youth employment pilot projects centered around the
Campaign’s five key sectors
• Conducting policy analysis and publishing policy briefs
• Managing the National Knowledge Resource (NKR) a resource database and
communication medium where all stakeholders of youth employment can share and
access innovative initiatives, useful toolkits, and comprehensive research and publications
• Managing the “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” Academy, a hub for youth employment
initiatives located in either Jeddah / Riyadh.

We want to be at the forefront of youth unemployment advocacy and
research.

National Activities Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

Capacity Building
• Supporting the formation and development of “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” Regional
Networks, youth-led entities comprised of diverse stakeholder groups committed to the
issue of promoting youth employment
• Supporting the “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” Regional Networks in the following activities:
Consultations: Hosting national level consultations with government Institutions, private sector,
academic institutions, education and training organizations, NGOS and youth groups to build the
national coalition for youth employment
Partnership Building: Building partnerships for developing and implementing projects
Action Plans: Preparing country action plans and reports to inform stakeholders
Entrepreneurship Development: Promoting an entrepreneurial culture through workshops and
materials; developing programs to provide business development services to young people;
working with banks and government agencies to provide credit and to provide credit and other
services to youth
Understanding Markets: Understanding the needs of the market place and creating products and
services to serve the market and to help in enterprise development
Mobilizing Resources: Building the capacity of “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” Network leadership
to identify needs, develop projects, build partnerships, mobilize resources and implement projects
Build Absorption Capacity: Working to make the “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” Networks
sustainable and effective and able to absorb the resources available for its development

We want to excel in a catalyzing youth-led employment creation
programs.


3. The “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs”
Campaign and The Centennial Fund

Our Goal Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

Alignment with The Centennial Fund
“Let us be clear. Half-educated, unemployed youth,
with no prospect of being integrated into a better future
The Problem: is a prescription for disaster. If young people do not
Over one million Saudi youth in the labor market who are have a stake in the existing social order, if they do not
feel there is a way for them, why should they sacrifice
seeking gainful employment opportunities today for a better tomorrow? Why should they have an
interest in protecting the stability and social safety of
Solution: that system?”

Creating Markets Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Vice President, World
Bank, 1999
Unleashing Entrepreneurship

What will the “Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs” campaign and The Centennial Fund do:
Offer a mix of grants, loans and technical assistance to young entrepreneurs

The coordination of efforts between our campaign and the fund will turn
our knowledge into action.

Our Aim Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

We need a New Deal for “The Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs Campaign will
Youth Employment recognize that it is only through employment,
empowerment that we can accomplish
conditions of equity, where youth can live in
dignity and relate to the society and the
environment in a truly sustainable way”.

1. Diversification of Economic Base: Part of Saudi Arabia’s Millennium Development Goal – the HSYGJ
and The Centennial Fund will work together to support entrepreneurs with knowledge, skills and
resources to grow non-oil sector – particularly services.
2. Development and Productive Employment of Human Resources: Help Institutions, Organizations
and Schools & Universities through collaboration with industry to feed Human Resources that meets the
market requirements.
3. Balanced Regional Development: Promote sustainable growth opportunities amongst youth from
least developed regions of Saudi Arabia – support government initiatives like economic cities and
industrial development at second tier cities.
4. Gender Equality and Women's Participation in Growth: Women’s advocacy – Skills Development –
Promoting increased participation in different sectors of industry – Supporting Entrepreneurship will help in
removing obstacles to participation of women in development and sustainable growth.
5. Information & Communication Technologies: Collaboration with CITC and other leading universities
and colleges across different regions of the Kingdom – HSYGJ campaign is proposing to set up several
(number to be decided) Knowledge Centers to train youth in ICT skills, and serve as an information hub
for local communities

The HSYGJ Campaign is uniquely positioned to leverage the
investments available in the market through The Centennial Fund

Overview of how we
Leverage Funds

Goals To create jobs for unemployed youth in the 5 development sectors

Investment
DONATIONS LOANS EQUITY
Options

Investment Knowledge & Individual Youth New or Growing
Beneficiary Training Entrepreneurs Enterprises

Investment • Fund “knowledge • Provide small • Provide capital
Use and employment loans (with ROI) and strategic
centers” that to local youth advice to young
provide job-skills entrepreneurs and growing
training classes looking to start businesses in
and practical businesses return for an
experience ownership stake

Job Creation • Prepare youth • Help build youth • Create many
Impact for the working employment new jobs as
world opportunities businesses grow

The Collaboration with Centennial Fund will offer various avenues for
investment and return.

Donations Investments Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

• The HSYGJ Campaign needs investment to help strengthen local infrastructure for
developing young entrepreneurs
• The donations will be used to create Knowledge and Research centers that will offer
Youth Leadership Training
Green Enterprise Training
Social Entrepreneurship Training
Livelihoods Internship Programs

• As well as supporting youth in
Youth Led Innovative Program Implementation
Seed Grant Projects for Entrepreneurship Development
Developing multi-stakeholder partnerships for program design
Building local capacity for program implementation
Using new technologies for livelihood generation
Community Driven Development
Designing Collaborative Projects

Donations will impact scores of youth creating employment programs.

Loans Investments Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

• We will work with the Centennial Fund to select the young people and train them to
design business solutions in the five development sectors
Diversification of Economic Base
Development & Productive Employment of Human Resources
Balance Regional Development
Gender Equality – Women’s Participation in Growth
Information & Communication Technologies

• The HSYGJ and The Centennial Fund on agreement can work together to provide the
start-up capital to help entrepreneurs launch their business ideas
• Many of these investments we suggest should be made in the form of micro-credit loans
that will offer investors (in this case The Centennial Fund) a good return on investment.
• Micro-credit has been proven to act as a catalyst for both new employment-generating
ventures and reliable investor returns.
• The HSYGJ Campaign will leverage its local knowledge and experience as well as
commercial and government partnerships to help implement these investment initiatives

Loans to young entrepreneurs will spur crucial development solutions.

Equity Investments Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

• In the medium-term, many of the development projects inspired and supported by HSYGJ
Campaign initiatives will be in phases of fruition and growth
• The HSYGJ Campaign aims to be in a position to provide significant capital to young and
growing enterprises through partnerships via The Centennial Fund to further our two
goals of creating employment and developing sector infrastructure
• The HSYGJ Campaign suggests market-based solutions and understands that hand-outs
are not the best long-term answer, the Centennial Fund should make capital contributions
in the form of equity
• These contributions will ensure aligned incentives, long-term sustainability and an
investment return
• Additionally, our partners and members can leverage their business backgrounds and
provide strategic advice to the youth entrepreneurs
• Creating a culture of market-driven ownership and investments will catalyze long-term
systemic change in Saudi Arabia

Equity investments are the final step in ensuring lasting enterprises.


4. HSYGJ Background Information

HSYGJ Current Members

Current Members
Shaker Al-Sehly Fahad Al Semari
Abdullah ALHarbi Amina Al Jassim
Merfat Eskandar Soraka Alkhatib
Mahdi alHusseini Mohammed Al-Harithi
Dr.Turky Abdulmajeed Maria Mahdaly
Bandar Adnan Abdualmajeed Dalya Bajunaid
Turki Al-Saud Hesham Rowaihi
Bander A. Al Mutlaq Ahmed Helal
Abdulaziz Al-Dhuayan
Asiya Sheikh
Abdullah Nouh
Waleed Bahamdan
Nada Dardeer
Asmaa Abughalib
Abeer Joharji
Duha alHusseini
Munira AL-AJLANI.
Hatim Alkahily

Founder of the Group:
Tajamul Hussain
Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs - Campaign
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Email: tajamul.hussain@ensuite-me.com


The HSYGJ Framework for Action

Equity

Employability Entrepreneurship

Employment Environmental
Generation Empowerment Sustainability
of Youth


MESSAGE Help Saudi Youth Get Jobs

Each and everyone of us must assume a
personal responsibility to embrace a new spirit
of collaboration for building secure communities
full of productive work for young people. For
any one of us to succeed we must all succeed as
a NATION.

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