The way forward: Helping youth entrepreneurs reach their potential

Significant efforts have been deployed in recent years to promote youth entrepreneurship at the national level. Numerous countries now count on policies that support youth entrepreneurship, mainly through entrepreneurship education and skills development in the schooling system, and comprehensive packages offering multiple services such as training, financial support, business advisory services, mentoring and coaching. This chapter looks at policies and programmes that have proven to help young entrepreneurs move up the performance ladder.