Poverty-oriented economic development for peace consolidation and training of young people (VPT)

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By financing economic and climate-resilient infrastructure (rural access roads, grain silos, deep wells, bridges) along selected agricultural value chains (cocoa, coffee, rice, vegetables), the module contributes to improving the employment and income situation of young people (DC program objective). The labor-intensive provision of infrastructure initially creates short-term income and employment opportunities, especially for young people. In addition, the new training offer along with the construction work, which is carried out as labor-intensively as possible (training on the job), offers the mostly unqualified young people the opportunity to take advantage of and implement training and further education offers. The structural improvement of the agricultural infrastructure in the intervention areas, the associated medium and long-term improved income and employment opportunities, coupled with the training offer, open up new future prospects for young people in particular and contribute to sustainable economic growth. The module is a further development and continuation of the FC projects Pro-Poor Growth for Peace Consolidation (GPC) Phase I (BMZ No. 2004 66 284), Phase II (BMZ No. 2009 67 141) and Phase III (BMZ No. 2016 68 128), in which the effects of the previous phases are sustainably strengthened and a new focus is placed on training and further education. The module comprises four components (1) provision of economic and climate-resilient infrastructure; (2) provision of training and further education opportunities in preparation for and along the labor-intensive development of economic and climate-resilient infrastructure; (3) training of user groups for income-generating infrastructure; and (4) measures to strengthen the project sponsor NaCSA.