Sustainable Development Goals

Written Inputs on the Zero Draft of the Pact for the Future

Dear colleagues, Check out the Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society’s (YEDIS) valuable insights on the United Nations’ “Zero Draft of the Pact for the Future” and YEDIS’s input listing on the United Nations Website. https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/pact-for-the-future-zero-draft

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Revolutionizing Polytechnic Education with Sustainable Development Goals

Check out YEDIS Executive Director Rafiu Akinpelu Olaore’s Presentation on ‘Revolutionizing Polytechnic Education with Sustainable Development Goals in the Post-COVID Era. ‘  31 Jan 2024. Link: Revolutionizing Polytechnic Education with Sustainable Development Goals Video recording

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A Panelist at the United Nations Intergovernmental process for the Declaration on Future Generations. 

Video Link YEDIS Executive Director Mr. Rafiu Olaore was honoured as a Panelist on 16th January 2024 at the United Nations informal consultations on the Intergovernmental process for the Declaration on Future Generations as part of the preparatory process of the Summit of the Future. The meeting was co-facilitated by His Excellency Mr. Brian Christopher

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ADVOCACY AND ENLIGHTENMENT OF MARGINALIZED COMMUNITY PEOPLE ABOUT UNITED NATIONS SDGs AND STEM EDUCATION

YEDIS sensitized and advocated the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030 and mentored over 100 marginalized people with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education and corporate entrepreneurship development skills. The free Empowerment workshop, with light refreshments, occurred on November 11, 2023, at Government Technical College Lecture Hall, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria.

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YEDIS Report on World Bank Group – IMF 2023 Annual Meeting and Civil Society Policy Forum in Morroco.

Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) delegates participated in the World Bank Group – International Monetary Funds annual meeting and Civil Society Policy Forum held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 9 – 15 October 2023.  The forum united the policymakers, government officials and civil society leaders to deliberate on strategic and innovative solutions to global

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Donation of palm oil production materials to m300 marginalized agribusiness women

Capacity Building Workshop and Empowerment of Marginalized Agribusiness Women and Girls

Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a nonprofit organization in Nigeria that promotes entrepreneurship education, youth employment and community development. YEDIS organized the capacity building workshop and empowerment of over 300 women and girls in palm oil and palm kernel seeds production on May 26th 2023, in Obaagun community, Osun State, Nigeria and

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Entrepreneurship, Digital Skills, and Healthcare Workshop for Advancing Youth Education and Decent Employment.

Youth Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurship education, youth employment, and underserved community development.   YEDIS, in collaboration with Olaseffy Variety Stores, organized a workshop on entrepreneurship, digital skills, and healthcare services to advance quality education and employment for young people between the ages of fourteen (14) and twenty

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United Nations World Data Forum 2023: Report by YEDIS 

Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a non-profit organization in Nigeria that promotes entrepreneurship education, youth employment, and community development.  YEDIS Executive Director Mr. Rafiu Olaore and Mr. Patrick Ilori, YEDIS Ambassador in Austria/Europe, participated (virtually) at the United Nations World Data Forum, held in Hangzhou, China, from 23rd – 27th April 2023. 

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Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation

YEDIS Executive Director, Mr. Rafiu Olaore at the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) side event, ‘A New Way of Monitoring Development Co-operation: Towards Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue and Action’ UN Financing for Development (FfD) Forum, 19th April 2023 in New York, USA. Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS).https://yedis.org

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Empowerment of Nigeria Rural Women and Girls in Agricultural Food Production

Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) held a workshop on Marketing for Agricultural Products and the Empowerment of thirty women and girls at Iba, a rural community in Osun State, Nigeria, on 28th January 2022.  Yedis, a nonprofit organization, donated 100 liters of ten buckets to the best ten female entrepreneurs “fufu” producers and

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Nonprofit Staff Week

YEDIS staff attendance at the Nonprofits Staff Week, 2022 by Nigeria Network of NGOs with support from Google.org held on 17th – 21st January 2022. Youth Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a nonprofit organization that builds entrepreneurial mindsets among young people for self-reliance. It promotes welfare, social and community development, and upscaling an

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International Youth Day celebrations: Entrepreneurship Education Is The Key

Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS), in partnership with Osogbo Livingspring Lions Club, celebrated the 2021 International Youth Day on 14th August 2021. The speakers advised the youth to embrace entrepreneurship with innovative business ideas to fight hunger and promote Nigeria’s economic development. Chief Akinpelu Olaore, Director General, YEDIS, stated that It takes strength,

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Free Workshop on Digital Fashion Design & Distribution of Tailoring Tools to 150 female Prentices

Otunba RAFIU AKINPELU OLAORE SPEECH AT THE WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL FASHION DESIGN ORGANISED BY YOUTHS ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION SOCIETY (YEDIS).  SATURDAY 10TH OF JULY, 2021. The YEDIS members and distinguished Guests Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a nonprofit organization that builds entrepreneurial attitudes among young ones. We have put smiles on

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Empowerment Program for Female Entrepreneurs

Workshop on “Digital Fashion” and Distribution of Tailoring Tools to 150 Female Prentices on 10th July 2021 in Osogbo, Osun State Nigeria.

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Entrepreneurship:  A key to Sustainable Development Goals.

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