Eswatini Youth Employment Opportunities Project

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The project will support income-earning opportunities through a mix of economic inclusion interventions for youth, alongside strengthening delivery systems to support identification and targeting of vulnerable youth. Component 1 will provide youth with various earnings opportunities through self-employment along the agriculture value chain in sectors that can also support improved nutrition security in their communities; Component 2 will operationalize a digital social registry to support the government in objective profiling and identification of youth and provide tailored support to youth needs and capacities, including prioritizing youth in climate-affected regions to support proactive climate risk management. Component 1:Creating earning opportunities through sustainable livelihoods. Under subcomponent 1, the project will develop a package of economic inclusion support to build youth capacity for self-employment and entrepreneurship along the agriculture value chain, with a focus on climate-smart agricultural practices. The interventions will prioritize soft skills training including climate-sensitive trainings that enable resilience and adaptability in the face of climate-related risks. Gender will remain a salient feature of both subcomponents, in terms of soft skills training on gender sensitivity in the workplace, being mindful of women’s care and family obligations in intervention design and identifying gender sensitive livelihood opportunities.Component 2: Strengthening delivery systems, project management, and M&E Social protection programs in Eswatini have historically not reached their intended demographics. Under subcomponent 2.1, the activities will focus on developing a social registry to profile, identify, and objectively target vulnerable youth in high-risk, climate-affected regions with the activities described in Component 1. In addition, the component will build capacity for project implementation, coordination and monitoring and evaluation, including tracer studies under subcomponent 2.2.