Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People – Tackling the Challenge in Damietta

The ‘Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People (DJEP) – Tackling the Challenge in Damietta’ project aims to create decent employment opportunities for young women and men in the governorate of Damietta. The 24 months project extends the most successful components of the ILO/Canada “Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People” project to the governorate of Damietta. It implements entrepreneurship promotion and business skills development interventions as well as facilitate job matching processes. Moreover, the project will build the capacity of key stakeholders within government institutions, employers, trade unions and civil society organisation to implement effective and sustainable youth employment interventions. Gender and women’s empowerment as well as inclusion of people with disability will be cross-cutting areas of the project. The project builds on strong partnerships and aims to institutionalise ILO youth employment interventions with national entities to ensure sustainability.

Project symbol

EGY/18/01/MTX

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Cairo

Start date

01/04/2019

End date

31/10/2023

Total allocation

1356788

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1347927

Development Partners

Egyptian Methanex Methanol Company S.A.E.

Country/Countries

Egypt

Outcomes

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