El Director de la Oficina de País de la OIT para la Argentina, Marcelo Castro Fox, participó del acto de entrega de distinciones de la Asociación de Bancos de la Argentina (ABA) a los ganadores del Premio ABA 2012.

El tema de la convocatoria fue "El rol de las empresas y del sistema educativo – La inserción laboral de los jóvenes”. El concurso tuvo como objetivo distinguir las mejores experiencias de inserción laboral de jóvenes, especialmente menores de 25 años, realizadas por empresas, sindicatos, organizaciones de la sociedad civil e instituciones educativas.

“The world is round” has been a cliché since time immemorial but we seldom realize its truth unless we experience it ourselves. Nasef is just one of the many who could say that this cliché applies in real life.

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The Guardian newspaper highlights how "Wary of a hostile jobs market, and inspired by university entrepreneurship schemes, students are coming round to the idea of starting their own businesses"

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Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold, but most others eventually falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail?

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Strategy theory often takes for granted the role of state institutions in providing stable, predictable environments in which new firms are founded. Yet, many states around the world (such as Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo) lack political institutions of sufficient strength to ensure personal safety and public order, thereby creating environments where civil and political violence can ferment. This paper explores the impact of such violence on new venture processes. Results show that comprehensive planning was negatively correlated with venture survival in such environments. While there are implications for strategy theory, the study is also relevant to entrepreneurs and organizations promoting new venture planning in less-developed countries, particularly those experiencing political and civil turmoil. Currently, prospective entrepreneurs are taught the importance of business planning by both universities and non-governmental organizations that offer entrepreneurial training. But this study suggests that such training will have mixed effects on new venture survival, depending on the extent to which these entrepreneurs pursue ventures in violent and uncertain environments. In such contexts where governments fail to maintain public safety and order, these training programs may actually increase the likelihood of new venture failure. Key concepts include:

• This paper theorizes and tests how contexts characterized by weak political institutions and ensuing high levels of violence create uncertain and unpredictable environments that alter entrepreneurial behavior and disrupt resource flows and organizational routines, thereby increasing new venture failure rates.
• In contexts of high uncertainty as a result of violence, the benefits of comprehensive planning vanish as prior predictions become obsolete and even harmful to venture survival.
• Strategy theories often assume specific types of environments. But it is important to consider carefully the macro institutional factors.

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Based on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman's new best-selling book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential startups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case studies and anecdotes about the follies and triumphs of prominent entrepreneurs such as Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error."

A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for teaching excellence, Wasserman developed and teaches the popular MBA elective Founders' Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine.

Click here to access the author interview and a excerpt of the book.

"The assistance that the Joint Programme provided to our school has helped us in a big way especially in reducing the student dropout rate. It also has a strong effect in making entrepreneurship education more relevant to the needs of students". This was Rodolfo Caberoy’s summation of his experience with the Joint Programme’s interventions in his home province of Antique in the last three years.

Lears more about how interventions to support entrepreneurship education and help youth stay in school in the Philippines, using the KAB methodology, have been successful by reading the showcase attached.

Consciente de sa contribution dans les progrès socio-économiques du Maroc, et dans le cadre du programme CLE, l’Université Ibn Zohr vise à adopter le projet « Les Jeunes au Travail » qui est un projet conjoint de l’Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT) et de l’Agence Canadienne de Développement International (ACDI).

A ce propos une conférence présidée par le Président de l’UIZ  et le Coordinateur National du projet « Jeunes au Travail » du Bureau International du Travail (BIT) M. Khalil IBN YAICH s’est tenue le Lundi 12 Novembre 2012 à la présidence de l’UIZ dans le but  de présenter les astuces  et les facteurs permettant à l’UIZ d’être le chef de file de ce projet au niveau national.

Ce projet a pour objectif d’augmenter les opportunités d’emploi pour les jeunes et les femmes dans le pays à travers :

• Le développement de l’esprit entrepreneurial et les initiatives d’auto emploi chez les jeunes par le biais de l’éducation entrepreneuriale et la formation ;
• La formation à l’entreprenariat de 20 000 jeunes déscolarisés et leur appui dans l’objectif de créer ou développer leurs activités économiques ;
• Le renforcement de l’employabilité des jeunes et notamment celle des femmes et  l’accroissement des opportunités d’emploi des jeunes déscolarisés dans trois régions pilotes à savoir : Agadir, Oujda et l’axe Casablanca-Kénitra.

Au  niveau de l'université Mohammed V - Souissi, le programme CLE est enseigné essentiellement à distance mais a aussi été intégré en présentiel pour diverses filières de formation, Licence fondamentale, Licences Professionnelles, Master, Ecole doctorale de différents établissements de l'université.

Le contenu CLE  a ainsi été intégré comme élément de module majeur sur 2 semestres dans une filière de formation professionnelle accréditée par le Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur marocain en Aout 2011, "Entrepreneuriat et création d'entreprise" (voir dépliant de la Licence professionnelle disponible pour téléchargement ci-dessous).

De plus une journée de l' entrepreneuriat a été organisée à l'université en mai 2012 , journée au cours de laquelle le Projet CLE au Maroc a été présenté (voir programme disponible ci-dessous, et photos ici)

Nos remerciements à Karima Ghazouani, KAB Key Facilitator, pour ces informations.