AFD and ITCILO start new project for youth employment
ARPEJ is a 15-month project that will benefit youth in 12 countries and support economic recovery
14 May 2021
On 13 May 2021, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the ITCILO signed an agreement for the implementation of a 15-month project titled ARPEJ.
The €2 million project will be led by the Centre and implemented jointly with the ILO. It will benefit the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Republic of Congo, Senegal and Tunisia.
Its main objective is to support and strengthen the capacities of these countries to improve the definition, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public employment and skills development policies for young people. This initiative will establish a virtuous cycle linking collection of primary data on youth employment and their aspirations (School to Work Transition Surveys and Aspiration Surveys) wit
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New academy builds capacity for effective and efficient skills development in Lebanon
The ILO and its International Training Centre (ITC-ILO), with contributions from UNICEF, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have launched the Skills Academy Lebanon – a customised online training package for capacity development of stakeholders in the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector.
The aim of the Academy is to strengthen the capacities of participants to improve the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the skills development systems, policies and related programmes in Lebanon, in order to respond to the needs of the individual, the society and the economy.