Authentic Leadership Programme

Development assignments

To help prepare promising leaders for the future the YEP!Africa

Foundation helps develop employee leadership skills, and

at the same time builds goodwill for the company in the

developing world.

In our Authentic Leadership Programme

we encourage people to venture

outside their comfort zone by offering

development assignments in Africa where

they support our local members of the YEP

youth organisation in creating sustainable

livelihoods.

Your most promising leaders could even

serve on our Board to help build and

organize the YEP!africa Foundation.

Developmental assignments such as these

are among the most important tools that

great companies use to build leaders.

That is why YEP!africa has developed The

Authentic Leadership Programme.

Authentic leaders inspire with a

greater purpose

For whom? For all aspiring leaders who have been with

the company for some time ---- ideally the

employees that the company wants to retain most.

Interested?If and when you are interested in our Authentic

Leadership Programmeplease contact Paul

Engelsman:

Email : paul@yepafrica.org

Phone: 0031 6 12993822

More informationFor more information about the work we do visit our

website: www.yepafrica.org

How does it work?1 YEP!africa always works in partnership

with companies. In a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) responsibilities,

deliverables and the programme for the

participating company are agreed upon.

2 The experienced facilitators and coaches

connected to YEP!africa organise and carry out

the programme in close consultation with the

participating company.

3 The participating company can choose for a

one or two week development assignment in

one of the African countries we operate in.

After this assignment there is a possibility to

extend the programme by participating in one

of the YEP project groups or even serve on our

Board.

4 In Africa the participants work directly with the

members of the local YEP youth organisation

on one of their projects and/or support them in

creating their own business.

5 At the same time the participants are coached

on their own personal leadership and

entrepreneurial skills.

6 All programmes take place in safe, local

environments bringing participants as close as

possible to the authentic way of life in the local

African communities.

7 Local entrepreneurs/business people also

participate in each programme and share their

experience and expertise with the participants.

8 Before each programme YEP!africa organises a

preparation day with the participants and two

weeks after the programme a review day is

organised.

About the YEP!africaFoundation

African youth face numerous challenges that

include high unemployment levels which young

people rate as the top priority in Africa.

As long as youth regard their prospects for securing

work in Africa as unattainable, they will continue

trying to escape to Europe, in their eyes the countries

of opportunity. Too many young people die at sea and

ever rising levels of unemployment among young men

and women in Africa are a ticking time bomb. Let’s

remember that a country where youth has no future is

a country without a future.

YEP!africa believes that change can only be realised

when the youth change themselves and recognise

that empowerment begins at home and in their own

social environment. We do that by practising youth

empowerment as a matter of urgency. Building a

new social environment starts with a five day work-

shop: ”The art of Entrepreneurship”. This social

environment broadens and deepens when, after the

workshop, the participants become members of their

own YEP Youth network. This network functions as an

official local platform that not only stimulates social

entrepreneurship amongst the youth themselves, but

also represents our Dutch foundation towards local

stakeholders.

The Youth EmPowerment Foundation (YEP) wants to become the

leading organisation in Africa that creates sustainable livelihoods and

employment opportunities for youth in the future. Empowering young

people means creating and supporting the enabling conditions under

which young people with potential can act on their own behalf and on

their own terms, rather than at the direction of others.

youth is the 

changeHowever, empowerment is not about

shifting all the responsibilities onto

individual young people. They need

support in order to become young

independent entrepreneurs.

That support comes from experienced local

and European entrepreneurs. Our workshop

programme “Entrepreneurs for Africa”

connects experienced entrepreneurs with

our youth and together they work on the

development of their businesses and the

youth network organisation.

Also our “Authentic Leadership

Programme” connects aspiring leaders

from great organisations with the future

leaders of Africa. This programme not

only seeks to groom authentic leaders

but also to create a world without poverty.

Action learning is the strong fundament of

this programme. During the assignment

the future leaders work hand in hand on

different projects of which the realisation

of “The Youth Enterprise Palace” is the

most challenging project at the moment.

A building where 50 small businesses can

be created, in an environment of action

learning.

Empowering youth to follow their dreams

and become social entrepreneurs

and community leaders is a unique

development concept that connects the

developed world with the undeveloped

world in an action learning environment.

Together, we can make the difference by

learning from each other how to make this

world a better world.

Join us in creating a world without poverty

and we join you in creating

authentic leaders

For more information about the

Authentic Leadership Programme

please contact Paul Engelsman:

Email : paul@yepafrica.org

Phone: 0031 6 12993822

YEP!africa

Vlak 2

3311 AT Dordrecht

The Netherlands

www.yepafrica.org

KvK : 2443707© 2

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