Youth Employment in the Sahel Region
Project background
Operating under the umbrella of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth, the project, funded by the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, aims to improve the creation of and access to decent work for young people in the Sahel region. The project is the first dedicated effort by the ILO to adopt the multi-stakeholder approach of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth at country-level, leveraging the collective strengths of its partners for coordinated action in line with the guiding principles of the Global Initiative.To improve the creation and access to decent jobs for young people in West Africa, and particularly in Burkina Faso, the ILO is implementing this project through regional cooperation, capacity building, knowledge sharing, innovative and evidence-based labour market policies.
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