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Employment for Youth in Egypt (EYE): Providing a Reason to Stay - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3650

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3650

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Youth employment

category:

Employment

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comments:

UNTFHS, ILO, UNIDO, UNDP, MSMEDA as well as service providers

challenges:

The change in the mindset of youth willing to illegally migrate needs more time and collaborative efforts that are not fully existed, however communicating with youth by empowered and skilled youth is a successful approach in raising their awareness with the available work opportunities in both governorates.

success:

Alkorra build the capacities of youth, coached them, made them competing for better initiatives and then ILO supported the best 8 initiatives to take their work to the next level to reach the previously mentioned results. Moreover those initiatives who were not supported worked on their own. By the end of the project Alkorra started with youth to make coalitions among the youth led initiatives for more sustainability

context:

The youth in the project affiliated with AlKorra, have been capacitated to develop their own initiatives to limit unemployment in two governorates. Eight youth initiatives won funding and technical assistance, and even those that did not win continued their work and support for the project. The initiatives launched an electronic campaign to combat illegal immigration, achieving 6300 views, and one initiative produced and published a short video on illegal migration. A job database and a website for accessing job vacancies and training opportunities have been developed, with 2508 jobs and 15 training courses published. Two community dialogue conferences were organized, involving 320 youth, and green jobs were encouraged. The project provided both Labor Market Skills and practical vocational training, and a Training of Trainers was conducted to enable better employment services. Finally, four job fairs were conducted, one in cooperation with MoSS.

description:

Empowering and involving local youth is a good practice as they have deep insight into the needs of their communities and relevant strategies for addressing them.

administrative_issues:

The high turnover rate in the ILO project team made the linkages among different service providers lost and sometimes doubled the efforts which resulted in overlapped results

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/222537

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location:

country:

Egypt

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Employment for Youth in Egypt (EYE): Providing a Reason to Stay - Final evaluation