UNCDF launched YouthStart in 2010 in response to the lack of opportunities for the growing population of young people around the world, especially in Africa. To improve financial inclusion of youth, UNCDFYouthStart supports strong financial service providers (FSPs) in developing, piloting and rolling out financial products focused on low-income youth—with a special emphasis on savings—and nonfinancial services such as financial education. UNCDF-YouthStart aims to reach 200,000 new youth clients (12 to 24 years of age), with at least 50 percent of those being young women and girls, by the end of 2014.