EMERGING TRENDS

----But even as several local NGO’s  and their leadership try to chart a new course for operations and policy work, these Organizations still come in for heavy criticisms. Many believe that the Entrepreneurship reform process is too slow, poor and reaches only as far as the surface on the myriad critical issues facing the would be young entrepreneurs . 
Together with the worldwide political backlash against the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF in particular have increasingly been brought under the microscope by activists who point to the increasing number of people living below the poverty line as evident that the policy prescriptions of these institutions have failed to address the Question of Entrepreneurship at grassroots. The result has been a further strengthening of the anti-IFIs lobby and emerging physical protest action as seen in Washington at the April 2000 Bank-Fund Spring meetings. 
The cemented view is that the "dice are loaded against the poor" and that fundamental deep rooted reform is needed if even we are to begin scratch the surface of the massive poverty facing Uganda.  
The AIFYE is with a view that Entrepreneurship much more needs to be practiced to tackle poverty in developing countries. And while it would not be fair to say that the previous players have not made efforts to contribute to finding lasting solutions to the problem, AIFYE believes that much more can be done to drastically improve the conditions of the young practicing and intending Entrepreneurs through basic training, research, encouragement and professional entrepreneurial development. 

This effort must begin with a fair and firm understanding that poverty reduction and social development are not functions of increased public expenditure. But merely increasing public expenditure on social programs and sectors only will solve the problem. 
Our view is that a more holistic, targeted and inclusive form of development is needed. One in which all major stakeholders have a fair chance to contribute to the development and implementation of solutions to the myriad problems facing Entrepreneurship. 
TO THIS END THE AIFYE, HAS CONFIGURED ITS PROGRAM TO PROMOTE WIDESPREAD CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND POPULAR PARTICIPATION OF MEMBERS IN MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS WORK. 
Our view is that while protest action is sometimes necessary to force government act in a dynamic and people driven approach in addressing their problems, this cannot be seen as the only method of engaging government, as AIFYE intends to encourage the youth to carry-on collective work in SAC COS to attract government aid and support. 
The  believes in and will continue to pursue a policy of constructive engagement and collective dialogue with it’s members and its staff at all levels of operation, while lending our support to non-violent protests by our colleagues, against policies which adversely affect the Young Entrepreneurs in their activities for improvement.