Youth Inclusion and Employment under the Programme for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship of the Danish Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP)
Over the next five years, the new phase of the Danish-Arab Partnership Programme will increase young people’s access to jobs and education in five selected cooperation countries: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Youth Inclusion and Employment Programme will be managed by a consortium consisting of PlanBørnefonden, the Danish Chamber of Commerce, GAME and ActionAid Denmark in close cooperation with the Danish Refugee Council, Danish Trade Union Development Agency, and local partners.
The MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) suffers from high youth unemployment among 15–24-year-olds, which has been exacerbated by the Covid-19. In Egypt and Tunisia alone, 26% and 37% of young people respectively are without jobs or education. This is partly because a large proportion of young people who are already educated still do not meet the demands of the private labour market. Young women find it fundamentally more difficult to enter the labour market than their male peers, even if they have similar or better educational backgrounds.
The Youth Inclusion and Employment programme, therefore, focuses on providing young people with digital competences and skills in areas such as green transformation, which the labour market requires. Working closely with young people, the programme aims to help educational institutions and the private sector break down barriers that keep young people – and women in particular – out of the labour market. At the same time, young people can be given the tools, skills, and access to finance to start their own businesses.
DAPP is funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) and will run from 2022 to 2026.
Impact:
The programme is expected to support than 100,000 young women and men in gaining new skills and better access to labour markets.
