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Rework the World is a global initiative that brings together the best local initiatives from around the world - those that can create new employment opportunities and speed up the change towards a sustainable society - with the aim of creating new employment opportunities for youth all over the world and mobilising young people around promising sustainable ventures.

This year the 5th Global YES Summit "Rework the World" is organized by the Tällberg Foundation and will bring together over 2000 participants, entrepreneurs, opinion leaders, local and global leaders in politics, civil society and business – and approximately 150 different initiatives from around the world, falling within five themes: Energy, Water, Land, Cities and People. The main program overview is available here. 

FAO and ILO will contribute to the Summit by presenting what new and innovative thinking they are bringing and also what challenges they are facing to go forward.

The two Agencies of the United Nations  will participate in the "People" session by facilitating the following workshops:

Integrating the young for employment in a non-conflict society” (FAO)

FAO will take part to the workshop: “Rework People: Integrating the young for employment in a non-conflict society”. This session will explore means to involve, empower and train young people to take part in farming, build their own businesses and become employable. Specific focus will be on how these efforts can be scaled up to reach out wider as well as inform other efforts tackling similar conflict related challenges.

The presentation draws from the initiative aimed at promoting employment and entrepreneurship for vulnerable youth in West Bank and Gaza Strip and undertaken by FAO in West Bank and Gaza Strip in partnership with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Ministry of Youth and Sport, Youth Development Association and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). To view the full presentation, please click here.

Providing youth with skills for entrepreneurship (ILO)

This workshop will discuss about the lack of education and training programmes that provide young people with the skills and self confidence needed to develop businesses and employment opportunities. It will highlight successful undertakings to reach out to and scale up educational programmes involving youth-led activities. For these programmes to have large-scale impact, solutions across government, civil society and businesses are needed. The ILO’s contribution will be structured around the theme of youth entrepreneurship and the application of its successful training package “Know About Business” that has reached out to more than 500,000 students.  An ILO’s expert in entrepreneurship development will introduce the subject and facilitate the discussion focusing on the scarcity of jobs and the importance of entrepreneurship to address the youth employment challenge. Issues relating to the creation of an enabling environment to promote youth entrepreneurship will also be discussed during the workshop

Rework People: Media to drive a culture of entrepreneurship (ILO)

This session will present new approaches to use the media to engage young people, as well as to explore how successful concepts can be replicated.  The ILO will present an example of participatory theatre as an instrument to promote an enterprise culture: the PALAMA theatre campaign in Sri Lanka reached more than 280.000 people in rural areas. A dramatic story related to an enterprising culture is told through a theatre enactment. The public is called upon to engage with the actors and set up alternative plots.

ILO will organize a policy dialogue during the Summit in close cooperation with the Rework team. The purpose of the dialogue is to formulate the policy implications raised by the main challenge of the summit: how to take emerging initiatives into transformative forces of change. The policy dialogue will provide a unique opportunity to formulate tangible policy recommendations that can move the agenda forward. In a group of up to thirty participants, the majority is expected be decision-makers at minister level or in the senior management of international institutions. In addition, global thought leaders with deep theoretical and practical understanding of government and policy making, and with expertise in the fields of youth inclusion, entrepreneurship and sustainability, will be key participants.