Nicaragua: National Development Capacities for Improving Employment and Self-Employment Opportunities for Young People
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $5,610,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- 2,099 youth have been integrated and trained in technical subjects to facilitate their potential insertion in the labor market.
- Agreement signed with Banco Produzcamos for the implementation of a revolving fund.
- Establishment of the National Youth Employment Commission, a cross-sectoral body for the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the National Youth Employment Plan (PNEJ).
The programme seeks to act in support of efforts already being made at national level towards improving the access of young people to decent employment, especially those living in socially vulnerable conditions in urban and rural areas of Nicaragua, and thereby helping to counteract the negative effects of the migration trend.
Activities will be put in place to assist their labour and social integration, which will be systematically analysed in order to build comprehensive intervention models that will be sustainable at local level. Institutional capacities will be strengthened in order to place youth employment and migration firmly on the national agenda. The programme will also be closely linked to ongoing national and local initiatives that are already being supported by cooperation agencies, national government and municipal authority agencies. Young people themselves will play a proactive role in the programme as a whole, in their capacity as social entities with rights of their own.