With 27 percent arable land and no permanent crops, the West Bank and Gaza suffer from periodic food insecurity. Using proceeds derived from the monetization of commodity donated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ACDI/VOCA funds drought relief and agricultural training activities for Palestinian farmers and pastoralists.
YouthInvest will build on the experience MEDA has gained in youth and microfinance since 2002.
YouthInvest will build on the experience MEDA has gained in youth and microfinance since 2002.
In every region of the world, youth face difficulty entering the labor market, however particular challenges face youth in the Middle East and North Africa, which has the highest concentration of unemployed young people. Save the Children has been working on different models that look at youth employment/livelihoods/entrepreneurship since 2006, work which has informed the Rural Youth Livelihood Program (RYL), a pilot program launched in 2008 as part of an integrated program targeting adolescents who are both in and out of school in Egypt.
Save the Children USA (SC) and Fondation Zakoura Microcredit (Zakoura) have joined forces to develop a strategic, new microfinance market – vulnerable yo
The goal of the New Beginnings program is to enhance the financial and market-based practices of young people so they are able to better contribute to household economic mobility by improving their own economic activities. The program focuses on four results:
- Increased access and availability of youth-friendly services and opportunities;
- Improved quality of youth-friendly services and opportunities;
- Enhanced capabilities, knowledge and attitudes of youth
- Strengthened enabling environment.
NAJAH is a USAID-funded program aimed at increasing employability among Jordanian youth aged 18 - 24. As part of the program, NAJAH:
- Builds youth employability and entrepreneurship skills with a focus on soft skills that help youth ‘to be’, ‘to do’, ‘to know’ and ‘to relate’.
- Fosters positive attitudes towards work, available job opportunities among youth and their parents.
- Supports youth to put learned skills and positive attitudes into practice.
