Key stakeholders from 50 countries came together in Washington, DC, September 15-16, 2008, for Making Cents International’s 2nd Global Youth Enterprise Conference. During two days of meetings, the new and growing international community working on youth enterprise, employment and livelihoods development shared their experiences on what holds potential, what is really working and how to measure success.

This publication covers the two major themes from the September conference: Market-Driven Approaches and Effective Methodologies and Practices for Monitoring, Evaluating, and Conducting Impact Assessments, and it also presents a chapter on Youth-Inclusive Financial Services. This chapter was developed with leaders from the youth-inclusive financial services sector who shared their expertise at the conference and in an in-depth training course, Youth-Inclusive Financial Services: Emerging Good Practices.