Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth

FAO

Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth

Innovatively supporting youth’s access to decent employment and green jobs in agrifood systems

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 12p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

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Synopsis (short abstract) The number of young people in the Sahel is unprecedented, with over 60 percent of the population below 25 years of age. Two thirds of them live in rural areas, often lacking access to employment, skills, financial services, inputs and technology (World Bank, 2018). Although the region’s youth population is expected to grow, and a youth bulge could potentially turn into a dividend, if employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for youth remain limited, young people will continue to remain in a vicious cycle of food insecurity and deep poverty. This brief outlines how the project "Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth", strengthened the capacities of rural youth in their entrance in the agrifood system adopting green practices, while also empowering the national institutions tasked in supporting them.

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Book (stand-alone)
Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth
Innovatively supporting youth’s access to decent employment and green jobs in agrifood systems
2023

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The Sahel region is nowadays facing many challenges, including insecurity, rising extremism, lacking of economic prospects and decent employment opportunities, besides also experiencing poor access to education, vocational training and overall basic services. Youth are among the most vulnerable group in the region, and although youth population is expected to grow, if employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for youth remain limited, young people will continue to remain in a vicious cycle of food insecurity and deep poverty. This case study outlines how the project "Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth", strengthened the capacities of rural youth in their entrance in the agrifood system adopting green practices, while also empowering the national institutions tasked in supporting them. The case study also provides all the lessons learned throughout its implementation as well as details of the project’s evaluation.
Project

Building Resilience in the Sahel Region through Job Creation for Youth - GCP/GLO/050/GER 2021

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The Sahel region faces many challenges, including insecurity, rising extremism, and lack of economic prospects and employment opportunities. In this context, the number of young people in the countries of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel) is unprecedented, with over 60 percent of the population below 25 years of age. Two thirds of them live in rural areas and are poorer and more often lack access to employment, skills, financial services and technology than adults. In addition, because of their vulnerabilities, they may be at risk of radicalization, negative coping mechanisms or migration, given that this region is also both the departure point for migrants and a key corridor of different migration routes. If no action is taken to improve access to education, vocational training and quality employment, the Sahel could potentially become a hub of mass migration, losing its younger generations in search prospects not available in the region, and becoming a potential hotspot for recruitment and training of radical groups. To build sustainable peace in the Sahel region, urgent attention is therefore needed to bridge the humanitarian development and peace nexus, while systematically enhancing youth’s opportunities to support their countries economically, environmentally and socially, in order to address adverse drivers of youth migration and prevent some triggers of radicalization or tendencies towards negative coping mechanisms.
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Rural Youth Job Creation: Sahel
Building stability and resilience
2019

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The countries of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel) have a population of more than 75 million people, of which around two-thirds live in rural areas, mostly dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. Around one-third of the population is aged 15 to 34, while more than 60 percent is younger than 25. The programme aims to improve the livelihoods, training and empowerment of young people, providing equipment and cash transfers to generate rapid and sustainable youth employment and, hence, avoid distress migration, destitution, social conflict and any increase in violence.