An Open Paper: Livelihoods and Markets for Youth in Conflict

This is the homepage for a paper being written by Jason Wolfe, Enterprise Development Advisor with the USAID Microenterprise Development office and Radha Rajkotia, Youth and Livelihoods Technical Advisor at the IRC. Together, they are researching and writing a paper aimed at outlining how the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework and the Value Chain Approach can be used to improve the lives of youth affected by conflict. To provide readers with updates and allow you to provide suggestions, constructive criticism or direction as the paper develops, they are using this blog to post sections as the drafts are complete. Click on the links below to read the latest from Radha and Jason.

Overview: Help Us Write This Paper How will this work? The paper will consist of five main sections, focusing on economic strengthening for youth in conflict. Over the next 12 months, we will periodically upload section drafts as a main post in the blog, so that you can comment on the drafts by commenting on these posts. We will make periodic posts along the way to share our thinking, point out new resources or ideas we’ve found, or ask for your own insights, expertise, and experiences.

Post #1: Outline. In this post, Radha and Jason describe the goals and the structure of the Open Paper.