Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) - Argentina (IADB-AR-M1072)

Countries
  • Argentina
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
Buenos Aires
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Financial Institutions
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
May 12, 2016
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Argentina
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 0.52 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported 0.52
Converted using 2016-10-05 exchange rate.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 1.94 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported USD 1,938,691
Converted using 2016-10-05 exchange rate.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ IADB website

Updated in EWS Aug 11, 2017

Disclosed by Bank Oct 5, 2016


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Project Description
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This program seeks to increase the number of unemployed, underemployed, or in vulnerable employment youth (18-29 years old) in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina that successfully starts or grow their businesses. The specific objective of this project is to improve the entrepreneurial capabilities of low income youth in the city of Buenos Aires and its outlying areas through access to training and mentoring. Mentoring consists of a personalised support methodology in which an individual with expert knowledge (in this case, a professional with entrepreneurial knowhow or experience running a business) helps a less-experienced individual (i.e. a young person taking the first steps as an entrepreneur) to build up his or her skills and competencies, laying the foundation for his or her personal and professional development. The project aims to directly benefit 1,205 youth: (i) a total of 825 young people will benefit from training workshops and networking events, 550 of whom— divided equally among men and women—will receive mentoring support; and (ii) 380 young people will be trained in preparing business plans. The expected impact of improving the entrepreneurial capabilities of these young people is an increase in their business startup and survival rates one year after the completion of mentoring.
Investment Description
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Contact Information
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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF IADB The Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who have been or are likely to be adversely affected by an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC)-funded project. If you submit a complaint to MICI, they may assist you in addressing the problems you raised through a dispute-resolution process with those implementing the project and/or through an investigation to assess whether the IDB or IIC is following its own policies for preventing or mitigating harm to people or the environment. You can submit a complaint by sending an email to MICI@iadb.org. You can learn more about the MICI and how to file a complaint at http://www.iadb.org/en/mici/mici,1752.html (in English) or http://www.iadb.org/es/mici/mici,1752.html (Spanish).

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