Tunisia: Engaging Tunisian Youth to Achieve the MDGs
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $3,115,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies IOM, UNDP, FAO, ILO, UNIDO
Main Achievements
- Progress to date has mainly focused on strengthening the internal institutional capacities through specific studies, technical assistance, development of new methodologies for employment trend analysis.
The overall objective of the programme is to support Tunisia in its efforts to develop and enhance regional capacities in migration-prone areas, through the sustainable creation of decent jobs and the promotion of local competencies in the pilot regions of El-Kef, Gafsa and Tunis.
The programme proposes differentiated interventions adapted to the varying needs of two target groups i) unemployed university graduates and ii) unemployed unskilled youth. This will be achieved through: 1) enhancing national and regional capacities to develop, implement, coordinate and monitor regional employment and migration policies and programs; 2) innovative entrepreneurship promotion and job creation schemes including a circular migration mechanism for the targeted youth of the pilot regions. The UN will implement the programme through a network of governmental and non- governmental partners, with capacity building cross-cutting all interventions. Culture and Development.