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Youth Employment Theme Month

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Photo credit: John Estey.

Agrilinks and Marketlinks explore key themes supporting the urgent advancement of youth employment.

  • Conducting and using job diagnostics that are context-specific — getting it right for the specific situation.
  • Investing in young people’s development of non-cognitive, transferable skills.
  • Balancing supply- and demand-side interventions more effectively to improve youth livelihoods and lives in informal and formal markets amid more inclusive structural change.
  • Strengthening partnerships with youth to nurture their leadership and agency for employment transformation.
  • Young entrepreneurs creating change and employing their peers.
  • Exploring opportunities with and for youth in the green economy to ensure better outcomes for both people and the planet as the world endures and builds back better from COVID-19.
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An Inspiration in the Baking: How USAID´s Coffee Value Chains Project Supports Women

USAID’s Coffee Value Chains project is supporting women and young people through entrepreneurial opportunities in areas with high irregular migration.

Oscar Hernández Vela

Oct 14, 2021
Markets and Trade Gender
Iddy Cinto and his father standing at their tomato plot.

Father and Son, Working Together to Grow Their Family's Future

How USAID is improving livelihoods in Guatemala through agricultural skills.

Ivanna Meneses

Oct 13, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Food Safety Nutrition Resilience Youth
Hand holds stem of wheat

Fellowship Program Enhances Opportunities in Crop Improvement for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds

A new graduate fellowship program led by the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement will support students from Minority Serving Institutions to become next-generation leaders in global crop improvement.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement

Sep 30, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender
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Virtual Cooperative Marketing Trainings Support Youth Entrepreneurs

In January 2021, a virtual Coop Marketing School was launched to provide cacao and coffee cooperatives with trainings on how to market products online.

NCBA CLUSA

Sep 30, 2021
Education and Extension Markets and Trade Gender Youth
YALI logo

YALIGoesGreen: Agribusiness is Smart Business

To promote the importance of inclusive and sustainable agriculture-led economic growth, the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network ran a digital campaign, YALIGoesGreen for Agribusiness.

YALI Network

Sep 29, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Youth
Cambodian fish farmer catching small fish in the rice field, lake and channels.

Jobs Diagnostics for Development: Identifying Constraints to Youth Employment and Beyond

USAID’s Center for Economics and Market Development has developed a jobs diagnostic methodology that can help Missions identify and prioritize constraints to job creation.

Agrilinks Team

Sep 22, 2021
Youth
Vichai happily shows vegetables grown without chemicals.

Why Are Soft Skills Important in Youth-Focused Agriculture?

How can young people prepare for a future that few of us can define today? The answer in part lies in the development of a broad set of skills, behaviors...
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Olga M. Merchan

Sep 21, 2021
Youth
Farmer Tending to His Eggplants

The Future Is Safe If We Invest in Africa’s Youth

Africa is beaming with the radiance of its youth; however, their future doesn’t seem so bright.

Henry Lagat

Sep 20, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Policy and Governance Resilience Youth
Neema Mlawa, 23, from Iringa in Tanzania, growing tomatoes

Addressing Climate Challenges through Youth Employment in Agri-Food Systems

Given that agriculture is the largest employer globally with over a billion workers, green jobs provide an avenue for agri-food systems employment that helps address food security and climate change.

Keida Gaba

Sep 17, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Resilience Youth
Anthony Kayombo (left), Jofrey Machininga (center) and Kennedy Ngumilanga (right), Lutheran World Relief Challenge Grant recipients at the National Sugar Institute in Kidatu, a vocation and agricultural school in Tanzania, at their soap factory.

Five Myths about Youth and Employment

As Lutheran World Relief, a member of the Corus International family, marks Youth Employment Month, we are committed to amplifying youth voices and improving access to employment.

Lutheran World Relief in concert with Corus International

Sep 15, 2021
Education and Extension Youth

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