ILO-UNFPA partnership in Iraq: Promote civic, social and economic participation of disadvantaged youth in Kurdistan

The Joint Programme aims at empowering 750 disadvantaged young boys and girls in Kurdistan region both socially and economically. Social empowerment will be guaranteed by developing the life skills of the youth through training and strengthening their civic engagement in their local communities through developing their skills and attitude in volunteerism and community leadership and support them to design and implement local initiatives. They will be also trained on health practices and educate them on their health rights and access to health & RH services This will enable beneficiaries to interact with other economic actors while protecting their own interests and rights. An accelerated vocational training programme will be provided to the targeted youth to equip them with technical and employability skills to expand their opportunities in securing decent jobs and income through two programmes, the first is provision of waged employment through “supported employment scheme”. The second, which is targeting most of the disadvantaged youth, will encourage the youth to be entrepreneurs through provision of business training and provide them with soft loans to start their own business. This programme will be a model to KRG and it will be replicated and integrated within the government future development plans

Project symbol

INT/15/04/FPA

Admin unit

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

Start date

01/07/2015

End date

30/06/2016

Total allocation

71102

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

66282

Development Partners

United Nations Population Fund

Country/Countries

Iraq

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects