African youth enterprenuership development network

3 Organizational Description
The African Youth entrepreneurship (AYEDN) is a Nigerian Non Governmental youth-led, youth-serving and youth-focused organization that provides a wide array of skills and competencies that responds to the needs of young people at social and economic levels to achieve positive human development. AYEDN provides a youth development framework strategy that adopts a positiv

e, holistic and integrated approach aimed at improving the livelihoods of the young people by upholding youth engagement as key to a sustained economic development and growth. AYEDN recognises business and information technology development and support as key to encourage young people in finding opportunities for employment and self-employment while sexual and reproductive health and rights information, guidance and advice are cross cutting issues and integrated in all youth development programmes. Information and Communication Technologies are regarded as tools and integrated in all the activities conducted to enhance efficiency, accuracy and quality of doing work. AYEDN demonstrates dynamics between ICTs and various youth development initiatives in order to increase adoption and integration levels by youths and youth-serving institutions.