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Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People - Final evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3091
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3091
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Gender equality
- category:
- Conditions of work & equality
- comments:
- Targeted women and youth beneficiaries from both GET Ahead and SIYB project interventions.
- challenges:
- N/A
- success:
- Consequently, the number of women entrepreneurs increased in Damietta.
The women became more confident, stepped out of their comfort zone, and won prizes for outstanding business ideas.
The same happened for the SIYB beneficiaries. This resulted in offering 6 prizes distributed, which contributed significantly to the buy-in of the project interventions, especially with the leadership and support from both the Government of Damietta and the donor.
- context:
- Women received support such as soft skills allowed women to be more confident in costing and pricing and increased their competitive edge.
However, the project adopted a new approach to offering incentives (in-kind incentives) to women who participated in the GET Ahead intervention to encourage them to participate in the project’s activities, such as sewing machines, to promote the winning women to start their projects and contribute to improving their quality of life.
Consequently, the number of women entrepreneurs under GET Ahead project interventions increased in Damietta.
The same happened with SIYB participants. A business plan competition, Damietta Entrepreneurs “Rowad Domiat 2022 ”, organized by DJEP and implemented by the Global Entrepreneurship Network in Egypt (GEN), covered four tracks: ideas, start-ups, existing businesses, and women in business.
- description:
- Replacing direct financial incentives with competition prizes attracted women with passion and dedication towards their businesses to join, raising the quality of program participants.
- administrative_issues:
- Working with the Entrepreneurship Center at Horus University and other actors (e.g., emerging donor(s)) to finalize the fundraising strategy development to fund this intervention.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/248194
- location:
- country:
- Egypt
- region:
- Africa
- eval_title:
- Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People - Final evaluation
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