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

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) 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.

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