• In Iraq, a digital monitoring tool was introduced and used by young engineers to monitor and report on EIIP sites. The tool was designed to ensure adherence to quality standards, alignment with environmental and social safeguards, and safety standards across project sites, while also introducing a technology that would allow young people to gain work experience using digital skills.

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• An EIIP approach was used to ensure specific attention was paid to increasing the participation of women in areas traditionally dominated by men, such as construction work. In Iraq, the ILO collaborated with the Women Empowerment Unit at the Directorate of Youth and Sports in Nineveh to rehabilitate the Zaha Hadid Youth Centre. The design and facilities of the centre were developed in consultation with the Unit to help ensure  they met the needs of young women and persons with disabilities in the area.

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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. 

Find out more about the PROSPECTS programme’s wider learning on youth engagement.