Employment Creation for Youth to Build Sustainable Peace in The Gambia

The project aims at building sustainable peace by creating employment opportunities for young women and men in infrastructure construction works, which is supported by skills training and entrepreneurship support. The project gives a specific focus on employment creation in infrastructure construction works, which can provide a large number of employment opportunities immediately for both skilled and unskilled people. The project also ensures to select infrastructures which directly contribute to agriculture, tourism, or fishery sector, that are the drivers of the economic growth, and to promote the use of locally available materials. It also considers making the project impact sustainable by not only offering employment opportunities to respond to this urgent need but also providing skills training and entrepreneurship support. Furthermore, the project underlines creating decent employment by promoting occupational safety and health (OSH) as well as equality and mutual understanding through encouraging inclusiveness of returnees and women.

Project symbol

GMB/18/01/JPN

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Dakar

Start date

01/04/2018

End date

30/09/2019

Total allocation

820312

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

820312

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Gambia

Outcomes

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