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 * Session 3: envisioning exercise**

"**towards increased youth employment**" //the ideal strategy//

Imagine that you are now in 2015 and you have just been informed that the results of the Joint Youth Employment Initiative was voted as the inititative of having the greatest impact on sustainable youth employment in the continent. An award has been attributed to the project as a recognition of its importance. You have managed to do it all:


 * As a basis you have succeeded in creating a joint strategy with the four institutions that really adds value to the current work you do.
 * You have integrated all sorts of partners and stakeholders (constituents, international organisations, .... ) in a meaningful way so they found working under the umbrella of the Joint Initiative a relevant experience that generated impact.
 * You have created a true hub of knowledge sharing, a unique platform where a vibrant exchange of ideas, experiences, as well as the generation of new ideas take place.

You will be divided in 3 groups of 4 people (two groups will be with five) and you will be asked to formulate on a flip chart a provocative proposition. You have 45 minutes to develop a proposal. Before you begin in your group appoint:
 * Step 1:** (60 min)

Group division: Group 1: Ginette, Adrian, Diop, Claudia Group 2: Diallo, Daniel, Rebeka, Judica Group 3: Cristina, Raymonde, Judith, Torben

- a person to facilitate the discussion - a person to keep time - a person to document the final result

This prestigious award seeks to recognize the innovators and pioneers, the dreamers and doers who bring substantial change in the area of youth employment. Obviously one does not win an award just by doing the normal things – awards are always given for outstanding and extraordinary achievements that the world has not seen before!

In your group think of a provocative proposition of how you moved in the past years towards a sustainable strategy for increased youth employment. This entails a number of important and highly complex parameters (economic growth, education and training, labour-market regulation, enterprise-level establishment, performance and growth. Furthermore all these parameters have variable at various levels (legislation, policy, strategy, institutional set-up, organizational capacity, field-level implementation).

To not loose yourself in details focus on the big lines on what really made the difference in these years. Your proposition cannot be longer than 80 words and should meet the following criteria:

It is provocative. It stretches and challenges your institution, it has forced you it to move beyond the parameters of its normal routines. It is grand, but still practicable. Similar challenges have been met in the past and, as such, the vision represents a compelling possibility. It is desired. All your working group members would like to be part of it as it is described in the proposal. It is highly participative. Achieving this required effort and input from all institutions. It addressed multiple aspects of the group’s structure and activities. This could include such things as leadership, communication, staff, structures, organisational practices, etc.

Each group will present its proposal after which a plenary discussion will take place to vote on the best proposal and to merge the elements of all proposal in one best general proposal.
 * Step 2:** (60 min)

Plenary concluding discussion to have a basic agreement on the scope of the initiative.
 * Step 3:** (45 minutes)

Flipcharts Markers and pencils
 * Materials:**

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