Cooperatives to Strengthen Youth Empowerment and Employment Readiness among Vulnerable, Marginalised and At-Risk Groups

The overall objective of this project is to improve employment opportunities for vulnerable, marginalised and at-risk youth. The project objective is to build institutional capacities to deliver innovative and value added services with a special focus on employment readiness/foundational skills, empowerment, and cooperatives development. The expected impact will be measured at the program level through benchmarking to assess whether direct beneficiary have improved services to promote youth employment. In addition, the project will undertake impact evaluations of selected programs/services to assess the extent to which the intervention has improved youth employment outcomes.

Project symbol

RAS/17/52/JPN

Admin unit

CO-Bangkok

Start date

12/10/2017

End date

31/12/2019

Total allocation

246600

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

246600

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Cambodia
Lao People's Democratic Republic

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises as generators of employment and promoters of innovation and decent work