Projects

• YEN Lead Country Network
  Lead country nations who have committed to tackle youth employment challenges at the highest level by formulating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating National Action Plans on youth employment (NAP) and regularly report on their progress to the YEN secretariat.
• Youth-to-Youth Fund
  YEN's competitive grant scheme supports youth employment projects in the Mano River Union (MRU) (Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone). It serves to identify and support small scale, innovative projects with potential to provide employment opportunities for young people (ages 15 to 30) while allowing youth organizations to actively participate in development.
• Private Sector Initiative
  The Private Sector Initiative (PSI) is project of YEN’s subregional office for West Africa. The PSI is a multi-stakeholder platform for business action on youth employment supported by the United Kingdom’s Department of Work and Pensions. The PSI aims to strengthen the role that business in West Africa can play in enhancing employment opportunities for youth.
• Results measurement in youth employment
  Building the evidence base to support the development of effective programmes and policies to create jobs for youth. YEN is conducting a series of evaluation clinics offering technical advice to youth employment programmes on how to rigorously evaluate their programmes.
• YEN Associates Program
  YEN partners with the Global College at the University of Winnipeg to place young professionals in YEN Lead Countries of Senegal, Indonesia, Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya. The goal of the program is to assist in promoting youth employment as a major development issue. The program is sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) Youth Employment Strategy.