YouthStart, a UNCDF programme in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, aims to reach 200,000 youth in sub-Saharan Africa with demand-driven financial services and non-financial services, in particular savings and financial education, by 2014. 
The objective of the paper is twofold:
For FSPs: To assess the effort needed to achieve the profitability of youth services and recommend how FSPs can improve the pathway towards profitability of youth services.
For donors: To show how the support of donors impacts the pathway towards profitability of youth services and fosters youth financial inclusion.