Project: PRO-Jeunes
Amount: $8.4 million
Countries: Côte d’Ivoire
Improve life, technical, and vocational skills, access to job and business opportunities, and financial services for 10,000 disadvantaged young people aged 15–24 years old, 60 percent of whom are female.
Work with industry partners, public vocational training centres, the government’s Agence Emploi Jeunes (Youth Employment Agency), to connect 60 percent of youth to sustainable employment or entrepreneurship in the agricultural, energy, and ICT sectors or transition them to further education.
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