Sudan: Creating opportunities for Youth Employment in Sudan
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $9,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies IOM, UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, UNESCO, ILO, UNIDO, UNAIDS, UNOPS
Main Achievements
- National sub-sector plan on youth education has been endorsed by the Sudan government and put in place. Microfinance policies conducive to youth employment have been prepared for a workshop with stakeholders.
- Curricula for skills training on Henna tattoos, Construction, Baking and entrepreneurship completed for South Kordofan. Henna tattoo training were highly successful and most trainees started earning income after the training. Agricultural and livestock training in Blue Nile states also showed good results, with some trainees beginning to earn after training.
- In the Republic of South Sudan, programme is focused on providing leadership and technical assistance in mainstreaming youth provisions into the interim Southern Sudan Development Plan.
Contact Leosa Nanette Agdeppa, lnagdeppa@yahoo.com
The programme aims to provide skills development and livelihood opportunities to the youth with a focus on returnees and demobilised soldiers. 21 years of civil war has left an entire generation without access to education in the South. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 is providing an enabling environment for the return of more than four million displaced people.
This programme, amounting $ 15.7 million, has been designed in consultation with the Government of National Unity and the Government of Southern Sudan. The programme will help mainstream youth employment in national development frameworks and create employment opportunities to deliver peace dividends and support the overall CPA implementation. The program adopts an area based approach targetting 6 priority states [three in the North and 3 in the South]. Due to the often challenging environment, the size of the country and the scale of the needs, this approach will help maximise the impact of the programme.