United for Youth Employment in Cambodia

A United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP) developed to provide assistance to the Royal Government of Cambodia to address the critical issue of youth employment in the context of the rapidly growing, export-led national economy. It aims at facilitating young people’s entrance into the labour market, while reducing inequalities – particularly for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups - and ensuring young women and men are better able to meet labour demand. The UNJP is a partnership between the United Nations system and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The UNJP capitalizes on the complementary mandates and areas of UN expertise, which, when pulled together, can more effectively contribute to address the challenge of youth employment in Cambodia. Hence the programme benefit from the combined strengths of ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF and UNV. The cooperation of the participating agencies counts on additional resources secured from the organizations' core funding and from other donors.

Project symbol

KHM/17/50/CHE

Admin unit

CO-Bangkok

Start date

01/09/2017

End date

29/02/2020

Total allocation

565998

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

541186

Development Partners

Switzerland, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Country/Countries

Cambodia

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Economic, social and environmental transitions for full, productive and freely chosen employment and decent work for all