PROSPECTS Jordan helped develop a mobile application for youth in refugee and host communities to get career advice. The app, called My Future Career Path, allowed young players to navigate ten different games while helping them discover their abilities and interests in different Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) career pathways.
In Uganda, youth representatives were included in the District Employment Services Forums, which helped the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development to understand the specific needs and expectations of young job-seekers and facilitated communication about job vacancies.
In Ethiopia, Employment Service Facilitation Centres (ESFCs) were established with the Bureau of Youth and Sport. Consultations with the Bureau and young people aligned the centres to the expectations of young jobseekers.
TVET and educational institutions engaged student networks. In Jordan, the career guidance offices of the Ministry of Education were spaces used by both refugee and host community students. In Kenya, a decree required that all institutions of higher education and training incorporate career guidance units, generating demand for career guidance. In Iraq, partnerships with the University of Mosul and University of Dohuk strengthened their career guidance functions and reached a diverse segment of the student population, including internally displaced persons (IDP), refugee and host community students. The ILO training manuals, ‘How to Choose My Future Profession?’ and ‘How to Organize My Job Search?’ were suitable for students and recent graduates.
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In Ethiopia, Iraq and Kenya, WBL is integrated into TVET courses to target young people as students, therefore engaging with them via educational settings.
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In Ethiopia, youth-led organizations were provided with financial and capacity-building support via a competitive grant scheme, the Youth-to-Youth Fund. The fund supports youth-led initiaties that addressed challenges in their communities while promoting employment opportunities for young people. One of these organizations, Safe Light Initiative, provided entrepreneurship, employability and leadership training to young people.
In Uganda, PROSPECTS helped build on a social entrepreneurship education programme run by UNICEF. RYLOs were engaged in integrating SIYB into UNICE's UPSHIFT model, focusing on the modules for starting up businesses. What became known as integrated UPSHIFT (i-UPSHIFT) supported young entrepreneurs in the Nakivale and Rhino settlements to develop business ideas based on community needs.
The programme in Lebanon trained more than 650 young people – male and female – through its My First Business entrepreneurship programme. Find out more in the case study.
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In Lebanon, young people within the refugee and host communities were quickly mobilized to help with rubble removal and street-clearing as part of the EIIP following the Beirut blast.
In Kenya, young people were engaged in the mechanical removal and value addition of Prosopis, receiving training in skills like chainsaw operation.
EIIP can target young people when linked to TVET courses. In both Ethiopia and Kenya, EIIP was integrated with efforts to expand TVET in refugee-hosting areas. A cobblestone production training course offered through a public TVET centre at county level specifically targeted young people. Students on the course got to participate in EIIP and put their learning into practice. In Iraq, EIIP was used to improve the physical infrastructure of TVET centres poriving TVET students with the opportunity to apply their skills in practice in solar panel installation, painting, plastering, gardening and masonry.
In Iraq, EIIP work rehabilitated the Zaha Hadid Youth Centre in Ninawa. The physical reconstruction was linked with institutional capacity building (in collaboration with UNICEF) to enable the rollout of training programmes for youth.
In Uganda the construction of multi-purpose communice centres centers helped link youth with labour markets and business opportunities. The facilities, including the TVET hall, computer room, and sports ground, hosted activities such as youth film projects, graduation ceremonies, and social innovation boot camps.
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In Egypt, PROSPECTS trained staff from the Ministry of Youth and Sport (MOYS) as FE trainers, who then supported the roll-out of FE in MOYS youth centres. Similarly, PROSPECTS Iraq worked with FSPs to develop a wider network of enterprise support, encompassing the Ministry of Youth and Sport (MOYS), the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MOLSA), business associations, chambers of commerce and chambers of industry. MOYS youth centres and MOLSA TVET centres were used as training spaces, and staff served as trainers for both SIYB and FE. This helped link financial services offered by the FSPs to other forms of BDS support. The programme also institutionalized the tool within a youth volunteer organization that was affiliated to the MOYS. Find out more in the Iraq case study.
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In Jordan, JSCs were first piloted in partnership with the Ministry of Youth centres, later the methodology was adapted to focus on green jobs. The team in Jordan also started to train JSC alumni as facilitators, engaging youth as part of the delivery of the services rather than simply as recipients.
In Iraq, JSC was also introduced into the Ministry of Youth and Sport youth centres, in partnership with UNICEF.
In both Kenya and Iraq, Work-based learning (WBL) was introduced in TVET centres and higher-education institutions to help graduates transition into relevant jobs, therefore engaging with youth via educational settings.
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