Youth Employment and Empowerment Programme
Project Background
The
Youth Employment and Empowerment Programme aims to
enhance Government and UN interventions to prevent
further marginalization of youth in Sierra Leone. It
aims at supporting the Government National Youth
Employment Programme (YEP) and similar UN initiatives.
Specifically, it aims to provide rapid employment
opportunities and income generating activities for young
people, strengthen the capacity of Ministry of Youth and
Sports at the national and local levels that will
facilitate the participation of young people in decision
making process. It will build on successful on-going
youth projects as well as implement pilot initiatives
for the purpose of providing immediate employment
simultaneously as developing a medium and long-term
strategy for tackling youth unemployment. The programme
uses a basket funding mechanism managed by UNDP and
implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth
and Sport, UN agencies, youth networks, NGOs, CBOs and
other community groups and with technical support from
the UNDP Peace and Development Unit.
Project Objectives
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Support
the implementation of the National Youth Employment Programme to
provide rapid employment opportunities and income generation
activities to young people through public works, private sector
incentives, and self-employment programmes.
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Strengthen and expand already successful ongoing youth engagement
and income generating initiatives through the UN agencies and
partners.
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Increase
Youth participation in decision-making process through the
strengthening of capacity of key institutions such as the Ministry
of Youth and Sports; Youth Groups and the Youth Networks.
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Support
mainstreaming of youth employment within development policies and
programmes in order to mitigate the marginalization of young people
in Sierra Leone.
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Support
awareness campaigns on drug abuse and trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
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Provide
literacy and employment relevant to youth education in the
non-formal sector
Project
Outcome
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Increased Job
opportunities for the young people
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Enhanced Youth
Participation in decision making process
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Youth
Employment mainstreamed into national policies
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Sierra Leone