Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a nonprofit organization in Nigeria that promotes entrepreneurship education, youth employment, gender equality and community development. YEDIS primarily operates in underserved communities where there is a lack of quality education and decent jobs due to poor awareness, inadequate educational facilities, and primitive agricultural sources of livelihood, chiefly among girls and young women.  Regarding the YEDIS Team's continuous association and familiarization with marginalized young people, they understand the challenges facing agribusiness owners, creative small businesses, and unemployed youth, including a lack of digital skills and inaccessible technological equipment.   Given the above, YEDIS strives with its limited resources through trustees' contributions and fundraising to help marginalized young people for decent jobs and gender balance and to advance sustainable economic and community development.  Digital technology advances underserved women and girls in agribusiness for sustainable development. Underserved people have inadequate managerial skills and lack access to digital devices and modern infrastructural facilities like electricity, modern equipment for agricultural production, entrepreneurship, and digital skills to innovate and promote their businesses. Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS) organizes entrepreneurship and digital skills for underserved women and girls in agrifood business to promote gender equality and decent jobs and encourage the food transformation system and economic development.

1. Strengthening Digital Literacy Skills for Marginalized Women and
Girls in the Agribusiness Sector
A Presentation at the
Social Business Creation Conference, Montreal, Canada.
15th -20th June 2023
By
Rafiu Akinpelu Olaore
Executive Director
Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS), Nigeria
Website: https://yedis.org Email: rafiu@yedis.org

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Background Information
• Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS) is a nonprofit organization in
Nigeria that promotes entrepreneurship education, youth employment, gender equality and
community development. YEDIS primarily operates in underserved communities where there is a
lack of quality education and decent jobs due to poor awareness, inadequate educational facilities,
and primitive agricultural sources of livelihood, chiefly among girls and young women.
• Regarding the YEDIS Team's continuous association and familiarization with marginalized young
people, they understand the challenges facing agribusiness owners, creative small businesses, and
unemployed youth, including a lack of digital skills and inaccessible technological equipment.
• Given the above, YEDIS strives with its limited resources through trustees' contributions and
fundraising to help marginalized young people for decent jobs and gender balance and to advance
sustainable economic and community development.

4. Background Information
A sustainable food system is one that delivers food security and
nutrition for all in such a way that the economic, social and
environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition for future
generation is not compromised. (FAO)
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5. Digital Technology for Food Security
• Digital technology advances underserved women and girls in
agribusiness for sustainable development. Underserved people have
inadequate managerial skills and lack access to digital devices and
modern infrastructural facilities like electricity, modern equipment for
agricultural production, entrepreneurship, and digital skills to innovate
and promote their businesses.
• Youths Enterprise Development & Innovation Society (YEDIS)
organizes entrepreneurship and digital skills for underserved women
and girls in agrifood business to promote gender equality and decent
jobs and encourage the food transformation system and economic
development.

6. Digital Technology for Food Security
• For efficiency, innovation and fruitful impact, digital technology is
highly mandatory in agriculture.
• Encouraging digital literacy skills among the underserve agribusiness
young people will promote high production and transform the food
system.
• Agribusiness people access to digital devices and technological
gadgets foster good networking, entrepreneurship education and
effective supply chain.
• Digital Innovation promote food security and its sustainability.

7. Structure of the YEDIS Digital Skills Training and Empowerment.
• Identification of potential beneficiaries and their units
• Registration of the applicants through Business association units'
leaders
• Classification of beneficiaries into groups for convenience and
teamwork
• Entrepreneurship and digital skills training periods (depending on the
number of participants). Three hours per day, from 8 am to 10 am.
• Facilitators include YEDIS professional team members comprising
practising entrepreneurs, agrifood specialists, digital technologists, and
academics.

8. Structure of the YEDIS Digital Skills Training and Empowerment.
• On-site training using projectors (storytelling and film display),
image banners, generators, and public address systems. The
activity occurs at the trainee's agribusiness sites to allow practical
teaching and learning
• Distribution of manuals to participants containing images for a
clear understanding
• Assignments and tests to measure their performance
• Generation of reports on training and feedback at the end of the
workshop for evaluation and future development
• Monitoring and Evaluation

9. Outcomes
• The digital skills for underserved women and girls in agribusiness have a
development impact, create added value and innovation, foster food security,
create job opportunities, and promote the country's economic development.
• Encouraging entrepreneurship education and digital skills will advance
marginalized young people's managerial knowledge and entrepreneurship skills to
network with national and global partners, promoting their businesses and
facilitating food transformation systems.
• Digital marketing proficiency and access to technological equipment will
empower underserved young women and girls for decent employment, gender
balance, and economic development.

10. About YEDIS
• YEDIS advocates for the UN SDGs in poverty reduction, quality education,
gender equality, and decent work. As of May 2023, YEDIS has empowered more
than 8000 underserved young people with entrepreneurship education, including
girls and young women in agribusiness and creative industries, through capacity
building, mentoring, business plan proposal writing, digital literacy skills, material
donations, and other business support service.
• YEDIS has over 4000 individual members globally, with a significant percentage
in Nigeria.
Website: https://yedis.org Email: info@yedis.org WhatsApp: +2347054997660
Twitter: @youths_society Facebook: @yedis.org Instagram: @youths_society YouTube: @yedis

11. YEDIS PHOTO NEWS
Empowerment of Underserved Girls and Women in Palm Oil
Production

12. YEDIS Photo News
Empowerment of Underserved Girls and Women in Palm Oil Production

13. YEDIS Photo News
Empowerment of Underserved Girls and Women in Cassava
Food Production

14. Testimonials
• Video Links
• https://youtube.com/shorts/8Y1V7c1tBEc?feature=share4
https://youtu.be/T-Aodp5C6t0
https://youtu.be/pdFFAMcONkI