| A Ganar/Vencer | A Ganar/Vencer is a workforce development program for at-risk youth aged 16 to 24 in Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay. It uses soccer and other sports as a teaching and motivational tool for youth, and builds private-sector partnerships to offer youth employment and education opportunities. |
| A Ganar/Vencer, Brazil | A Ganar/Vencer is a workforce development program for at-risk youth aged 16 to 24 in Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay. It uses soccer and other sports as a teaching and motivational tool for youth, and builds private-sector partnerships to offer youth employment and education opportunities. |
| A Ganar/Vencer, Ecuador | A Ganar/Vencer is a workforce development program for at-risk youth aged 16 to 24 in Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay. It uses soccer and other sports as a teaching and motivational tool for youth, and builds private-sector partnerships to offer youth employment and education opportunities. |
| A Ganar/Vencer, Uruguay | A Ganar/Vencer is a workforce development program for at-risk youth aged 16 to 24 in Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay. It uses soccer and other sports as a teaching and motivational tool for youth, and builds private-sector partnerships to offer youth employment and education opportunities. |
| Afghanistan Secure Futures | By linking small businesses to larger market players, business associations, and financial service providers, Afghanistan Secure Futures helps businesses to improve both the quality and quantity of their work. |
| Africa KidSAFE | Africa KidSAFE is a Zambian network whose member organizations work to address factors causing children to live on the street, and to reintegrate children living on the street into households. Their activities include economic strengthening at the household level by providing microfinance services for caregivers, to better enable them to support the children in their households. |
| Agriculture for Children's Empowerment (ACE) | The ACE Project is developing entrepreneurship and bringing farmers into profitable value chains with the goal of increasing income, improving nutrition and enabling caregivers to better support their children. |
| Community Action Program (CAP) III | The goal of CAP III is to increase the ability of local government to identify, articulate and better meet the needs of its constituency. Toward this aim, the program employs several key youth programming components. The program is implemented by ACDI/VOCA in four provinces in northern Iraq. |
| Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA), Tanzania | The Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) is a BRAC initiative aimed at providing adolescent girls with financial and social support to enable them to empower themselves. |
| Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA), Uganda | The Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) is a BRAC initiative aimed at providing adolescent girls with financial and social support to enable them to empower themselves. |
| Encouraging an Entrepreneurial Culture around Agriculture in Mexico | EcoVentures International is working with Fundacion E in Mexico to teach youth in rural areas how to approach farming as an entrepreneurial activity. The project aims to increase farming productivity and create incentives for youth to stay in rural areas, rather than migrate. |
| Expand Financial Services to Vulnerable Youth | In partnership with Fondation Zakoura Microcredit, Save the Children USA is working to provide vulnerable youth (ages 15-24) in Morocco with access to financial services. |
| Feed Subsidy Program and Drought Mitigation Activities to Improve Circumstances in West Bank & Gaza | The ACDI/VOCA program in the West Bank and Gaza works with agricultural communities to mitigate the devastating effects of recent drought and reduce the risk of future drought loss. |
| Fuel Briquette Enterprise Development Project (Future Fuels), Tanzania | Through the Future Fuels Program, EcoVentures International is exploring enterprise opportunities for women and caregivers in alternative, environmentally sound fuel production and sales that would reduce the amount of time necessary for fuel collection and production, increase household incomes, and create a healthier indoor environment with cleaner burning fuels. |
| Fuel Briquette Enterprise Development Project (Future Fuels), Uganda | Through the Future Fuels Program, EcoVentures International is exploring enterprise opportunities for women and caregivers in alternative, environmentally sound fuel production and sales that would reduce the amount of time necessary for fuel collection and production, increase household incomes, and create a healthier indoor environment with cleaner burning fuels. |
| Haitian Out-of-School Youth Livelihood Initiative (IDEJEN) | IDEJEN aims to address the education and livelihood needs of Haitian youth ages 15-24 who have never attended school or who dropped out of primary school before grade four. The project builds youth expertise in the areas of employability and skills training, basic and vocational education, job placement and small business development services. |
| India – Growth-Oriented Microenterprise Development Program (GMED) | ACDI/VOCA, starting in September 2004, implemented USAID’s first enterprise development project in India, the 4-year, $6.3 million India Growth-Oriented Microenterprise Development Program (GMED). GMED was an innovative program that developed sustainable and scalable approaches to job creation in agriculture by fostering the growth of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). |
| LEGACY Initiative | The LEGACY Initiative supports young people in West African countries currently receiving returnees from refugee camps in Guinea in accessing meaningful livelihoods opportunities through skills training, opportunities for civic participation and the development of life skills. |
| LEGACY Initiative, Ivory Coast | The LEGACY Initiative supports young people returning from refugee camps in Guinea in accessing meaningful livelihoods opportunities through skills training, opportunities for civic participation and the development of life skills. |
| LEGACY Initiative, Liberia | The LEGACY Initiative supports young people in West African countries currently receiving returnees from refugee camps in Guinea in accessing meaningful livelihoods opportunities through skills training, opportunities for civic participation and the development of life skills. |
| LEGACY Initiative, Sierra Leone | The LEGACY Initiative supports young people in West African countries currently receiving returnees from refugee camps in Guinea in accessing meaningful livelihoods opportunities through skills training, opportunities for civic participation and the development of life skills. |
| Local Links for OVC Support, Kenya | The Local Links project is aimed at holistically improving the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Kenya and South Africa through economic strengthening, social development and health activities. |
| Local Links for OVC Support, South Africa | The Local Links project is aimed at holistically improving the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Kenya and South Africa through economic strengthening, social development and health activities. |
| Make Your Move Campaign | loveLife is the national HIV prevention program for youth in South Africa. Over the next two years, it is focusing on the Make Your Move Campaign, the goal of which is to change the mindsets of youth to understand that change is possible through small actions on a daily basis that can help them to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and to make positive steps towards a socially and economically productive life. |
| Market Assessment and Tool Development: Supporting Out-of-School Youth Livelihoods Programming in Timor-Leste | EcoVentures International (EVI) has been working with the PAS (Preparing Ourselves for Work) program in Timor-Leste to identify viable employment and enterprise opportunities to inform a training program for over 2,500 rural youth, ages 18-30. The goal is to introduce livelihood opportunities that are environmentally sustainable and build transferable skills for long-term employment and adaptability. |
| NAJAH | Najah aims to increase employability among Jordanian youth aged 18-24 through a six-month interactive training program that prepares youth for formal employment. |
| New Beginnings (Bidaya Gadyda) | Through the New Beginnings project in Egypt, Save the Children aims to enhance the financial and market-based practices of youth to enable them to contribute to strengthening their households' economic well-being. |
| Partner MKF | Partner Microcredit Foundation is a multiethnic, inter-entity microfinance organization in Bosnia-Herzegovina targeting rural women clients. Partner is currently engaged in pilot testing a client mentorship initiative, and participating, in partnership with Mercy Corps, in a global study of effective youth microfinance interventions. |
| Pro Mujer Bolivia Jovenes Emprendedores (Enterprising Youth) | Pro Mujer employs an integrated services methodology for youth in Bolivia, combining savings and credit services, training, and health activities to mitigate risks for youth who face significant challenges gaining either employment or access to credit. |
| Promoting Appropriate Livelihoods for Displaced Women and Youth | A three-year research and advocacy project by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The aim of the project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings. |
| Promoting Appropriate Livelihoods for Displaced Women and Youth Pilot Project, Burundi | A three-year research and advocacy project by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The aim of the project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings. |
| Promoting Appropriate Livelihoods for Displaced Women and Youth Pilot Project, Colombia | A three-year research and advocacy project by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The aim of the project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings. |
| Promoting Appropriate Livelihoods for Displaced Women and Youth Pilot Project, Northern Uganda | A three-year research and advocacy project by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The aim of the project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings. |
| Promoting Appropriate Livelihoods for Displaced Women and Youth Pilot Project, South Sudan | A three-year research and advocacy project by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The aim of the project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings. In Southern Sudan, pilot project activities have been subcontracted to American Refugee Committee (ARC). |
| Promoting Appropriate Livelihoods for Displaced Women and Youth Pilot Project, Thailand | A three-year research and advocacy project by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children aimed at improving the effectiveness of economic programming targeting refugee, internally displaced and returning women and youth. The aim of the project is to bring about global systemic change in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic programming focused on improving both effectiveness and sustainability in conflict and post-conflict settings. |
| Promoting Rural Integration and Security through Microfinance in Africa (PRISMA), Ethiopia | PRISMA seeks to improve the lives of very poor women and orphaned or vulnerable children in rural East Africa by easing access to financial services for women in East Africa, especially the carers of orphans and vulnerable children. Women are a primary focus because they tend to invest additional income in improving the lives of their children. |
| Promoting Rural Integration and Security through Microfinance in Africa (PRISMA), Kenya | PRISMA seeks to improve the lives of very poor women and orphaned or vulnerable children in rural East Africa by easing access to financial services for women in East Africa, especially the carers of orphans and vulnerable children. Women are a primary focus because they tend to invest additional income in improving the lives of their children. |
| Promoting Rural Integration and Security through Microfinance in Africa (PRISMA), Rwanda | PRISMA seeks to improve the lives of very poor women and orphaned or vulnerable children in rural East Africa by easing access to financial services for women in East Africa, especially the carers of orphans and vulnerable children. Women are a primary focus because they tend to invest additional income in improving the lives of their children. |
| Promoting Rural Integration and Security through Microfinance in Africa (PRISMA), Tanzania | PRISMA seeks to improve the lives of very poor women and orphaned or vulnerable children in rural East Africa by easing access to financial services for women in East Africa, especially the carers of orphans and vulnerable children. Women are a primary focus because they tend to invest additional income in improving the lives of their children. |
| Promoting Rural Integration and Security through Microfinance in Africa (PRISMA), Uganda | PRISMA seeks to improve the lives of very poor women and orphaned or vulnerable children in rural East Africa by easing access to financial services for women in East Africa, especially the carers of orphans and vulnerable children. Women are a primary focus because they tend to invest additional income in improving the lives of their children. |
| Protecting and Promoting the Interests of Children Who Work (PPIC-Work) | PPIC-Work seeks to improve the working conditions and learning opportunities for economically active children and youth (from 6 to 18 years of age) who work in the growing micro- and small enterprise sector in Egypt by working with microfinance institutions to develop services that encourage employers of youth and children to upgrade their technology and enhance workplace safety, resulting in better and safer environments for young workers. |
| Reinforce Business for Local Development (RENDER) | As part of RENDER, an agricultural value chain development project in Mozambique, ACDI/VOCA established the Young Farmers Initiative, which provided support to agriculture students in becoming commercial farmers. |
| Reintegrating Youth in Post-Conflict Burundi through Livelihoods Promotion | A project of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) targeting repatriating refugee youth and youth who remained in Burundi, to address the livelihoods needs of youth aged 15-24, including business and vocational skills training and village savings and loan associations for youth. |
| Rural Youth Livelihoods Program (RYL) | RYL is a pilot project of Save the Children. It aims to equip adolescents in rural Egypt to successfully navigate the transition to work. |
| San Francisco Agricultural School | Fundación Paraguaya established the San Francisco Agricultural School as a co-ed agricultural senior high school for the rural poor in Paraguay to provide practical and entrepreneurial education that enables graduates to achieve financial success. |
| SEEP Practitioner Learning Program (PLP): Youth and Workforce Development | The SEEP PLP for Youth and Workforce Development was initiated to identify, encourage, and disseminate replicable strategies for using market-driven program design to improve youth employment success and for measuring the effectiveness of these strategies. |
| Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SOFEA) | The Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SOFEA) project is a BRAC initiative aimed at providing adolescent girls with financial and social support to enable them to empower themselves. |
| Spreading Access to Renewable Energy: Youth-run Social Enterprise Development | EcoVentures International works with the Kibera Community Youth Program in Nairobi, Kenya, to provide technical assistance to a mini-solar panel business that provides electricity to power cell phones and radios for Kibera residents. The project enhances the feasibility of electronic communication in Kibera and contributes to the financial sustainability of the Kibera Youth Community Program. |
| STRIVE Mozambique | The STRIVE Mozambique Project aims to improved child well-being in Nampula Province, which has the highest level of food insecurity in the country. Save the Children is addressing the issues of access to food and vulnerability by targeting individuals in households - particularly women with children under the age of 5, who face the highest risks of food insecurity - with interventions that increase household income and social capital. |
| STRIVE Philippines | The STRIVE Philippines Project aims to improve child well-being by strategically linking small producers with key market actors in other parts of value chains that are active in some of the poorest regions of the country. |
