Yennenga Progress is a global network for individuals, organizations and businesses that work together for positive social development.

The mission of Yennenga Progress is built on three pillars:

1. To strengthen and highlight positive role models around the world, social entrepreneurs, who does wonders in their communities, both large and small – Yennenga Networkers.
2. Inviting persons and companies, to use their specific expertise, to strengthen the sustainable development of the activities that have been built by our Yennenga Networkers.
3. To create a platform for networking and exchanges between projects, activities and people.

We match exciting global initiatives

- social entrepreneurs with the right skills and networks. Thus we find both human and financial resources together to create success. Within Yennenga Progress there is a wide range of activities: education, health, IT, environment, energy, water and sanitation, entrepreneurship and culture.

Having undertaken development activities with various organisations in Burkina Faso, western Africa, Yennenga Progress was established in order to simplify administration and to improve communication. Today the members come from different countries all over the world.

History
In November 2005, a group of people gathered and decided to start an organisation to realise the above ideas. The name of the organisation is Yennenga Progress.

Aims of the organisation
The overriding aim of Yennenga Progress is to contribute to sustainable global development, strengthening democracy, and supporting human rights, through close partnership and exchange of experience with people across the world. These concepts are fundamental in reducing poverty, raising living standards, and increasing hope.

Issues in focus:

• democracy and human rights
• education
• health
• entrepreneurship
• environment and sustainability
• equality and diversity
• culture

Projects built my members
The aim is to build our projects through supporting our members in their important work and projects. Project ideas are suggested locally, developed into concrete plans, and carried out on a basis of education, exchange of knowledge and experience, and contributes therefore to sustainable change. We base our work on capacity building and organisational development, both within the projects of our members and within Yennenga Progress.

Information and financing

• Yennenga Progress gathers engaged people with wide-ranging skills and experience. The organisation is a platform for conversation, discussion, networking and competence development.
• Yennenga Progress is an opinion-former in global issues, including policy areas such as economics, labour market policy, agriculture, environmental policy and trade.
• Yennenga Progress is a capacity builder through gathering a breadth of knowledge and experience, giving a range of approaches and a detailed understanding of the development process, whilst also having the necessary tools for concrete work.

Yennenga Progress’s work is financed through membership fees, fundraising, private donations, and donations from institutes, organisations and businesses.

Yennengas statues (in Swedish)