TANZANIA: ECONOMIC INCLUSION OF YOUTH AND WOMEN IN ZANZIBAR PROJECT

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The PDO will be achieved through provision of a sustainable community based platform facilitating skills and entrepreneurship training as well as linkages to private sector firms for potential employment or access to a market. Entrepreneurs who successfully graduate with a viable business plan will also be eligible for a grant and support to help them establish their business. Three thousand beneficiaries (1,700 female and 1,300 male) aged 15 – 35 years from the Kaskazini-A district in Nungwe, Unguja and Chake-Chake in Pemba will benefit from the grant. The selected areas have high poverty rates: 22% -31% in Nungwi, Kaskazini A district; and 31% - 43% in Chake Chake Pemba which has higher incidence of poverty and unemployment due to its relative isolation from both Unguja and Mainland Tanzania. The specific groups included are rural youth*, school dropouts (particularly girls), young women, orphans, and recovering addicts. These groups were identified through stakeholder engagement and an employment-mapping exercise commissioned by the World Bank and conducted by the implementing agency, as the ones that are regularly excluded from mainstream assistance programs. *According to the National definition, “youth” comprises young men and women from the age group of 15 to 35.Using a bottom-up approach, this project seeks to enhance the technical and entrepreneurial skills of women and youth in Zanzibar to increase their ability to succeed as wage earners or entrepreneurs in the tourism sector. The project interventions will be determined jointly with the potential beneficiaries and these would be implemented by a youth-led civil organization and fall under four components: i) the establishment of two innovative Youth Community Centers (YCCs) equipped to provide technical, entrepreneurial, and soft skills while establishing linkages between the beneficiaries and the job and financial markets.; ii) the provision of soft, technical, and entrepreneurial skills training to poor and marginalized youth, including women; iii) the establishment of linkages between youth beneficiaries and the markets; and iv) project monitoring and evaluation.