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Youth, Employment, Skills (YES) - Sudan

This project aims to economically empower youth and disadvantaged groups among host communities, refugees and IDPs in Darfur, thus providing the national economy with employable skilled professionals. The specific objective of the project is to improve the ability of young women and men to find employment or establish and grow their businesses through expanding and improving market oriented, equitable (also removing regional inequities) and gender-balanced Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

Main objectives

The specific objective of the project is to improve the ability of young women and men to find employment or establish and grow their businesses through expanding and improving market oriented, equitable (also removing regional inequities) and gender-balanced Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

Contracts

GIZ

EUR 14 885 000

Agribusiness in Eastern Sudan RDPP

 

Action Fiche

  • 2 MARCH 2023
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