The Young Leaders’ Network (YLN) is a unique space that targets post secondary school students, university students and recent university/college graduates. It provides them with a space to conceptualize and launch creative business and social ventures in a peer supportive environment.
Under this program, the organization is working with different groups of people between the ages of 18 – 30. Examples of the YLN initiatives include the following:
- Convening Space for leadership development initiatives by young people for young people like the Girls2Leaders Movement. The Girls2Leaders Movement was founded by an iCON mentee with the aim of building leadership capacities among female university students and recent graduates in order to equip them with skills that will help them become gender activists.
- A Young People’s Mentorship Partnership with young people at University like AIESEC an international student club at the Kampala International University (KIU). iCON develops the leadership capacity of such students and creates space for them to interact with other young leaders in secondary and primary school under the CLP to enhance their leadership potential. Opportunities for internship for AIESEC students under the exchange program have also been created.
- A Community Based Young People’s Leadership Development group in Munyonyo, Salaama, Kampala, District Uganda that comprises of a cross section of young people affected by urban poverty and other social disadvantages like missed opportunities and dropping out of school.
- An Internship/Volunteer program that provides formal education sector graduates with an opportunity to gain a range of skills and experiences through apprentice type placements within the iCON network.
- 5. Young Men against Gender Inequalities
iCON is facilitating the formation of a Leadership network of young men in Uganda who are helped to understand the importance of addressing all practices that promote gender inequalities in society.