The three-day conference on the theme: 'Advancing Youth Economic Empowerment for Inclusive Growth" held in Ghana brought together African financial experts as well as stakeholders from more than 22 countries to work towards establishing regional and national -level strategies to address issues of financial education and entrepreneurship among the youth. This event was organised by the Child and Youth Finance International in collaboration with Micro finance and Small Loans Centre  (MASLOC),Youth Enterprise Support (YES) with support of other organizations.

The youth summit which focused mainly on creating an enabling environment for the growth of youth enterprises which involved workshops and plenary sessions that helped define specific challenges of young entrepreneurs in Africa and identified innovative practices that can help address these challenges .

The Eary Bird SAGE Team in Ghana were part of this deliberation to create an action plan to actively further financial education and inclusion in the African region by making list of wishes for government and stakeholders to create policies and the enabling environment for children and youth to be financially included.

The President /CEO SAGE Africa Agwu Amogu conducted a workshop on "Financing Youth Enterprises through Innovative Practices and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), He stated that  the major key funding areas of youth enterprises are  Supporting training programs for youth entrepreneurs by financing training carried out by enterprise development organizations, mentoring youth entrepreneurs, with local business people providing guidance to new business owners,Providing grants or credit to young entrepreneurs to start businesses etc .

the Early Bird SAGE Team made a  Social Enterprise Business Presentation as a case study to showcase that Creating better futures through social enterprises, socially responsible businesses and community service would surely help identify  innovative practices that can help address these challenges .