Uganda and FAO launch a new Strategy for Youth Employment in Agriculture
27/10/2017
On 26 October, the Government of Uganda, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, launched the National Strategy...
ICA Programme: Leveraging ICTs to promote decent youth employment
18/07/2017
A common feature of the country-level implementation of the FAO Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for promoting decent rural employment is...
2nd Forum on Decent Employment to promote rural youth entrepreneurship in Senegal
10/01/2017
In Senegal, the agricultural sector employs 70% of the working population. Overall, the demographic structure is particularly youthful,...
FAO uses unearmarked funding strategically
28/11/2016
The FMM is a funding mechanism for partners willing to contribute unearmarked funds or slightly earmarked funds. Created in 2010, the FMM is currently...
Bucking the trend by investing in traditional agriculture in the Cook Islands
28/06/2016
What led Tini Jack and her husband Gelling, a couple from the Cook Islands, give up comfort¬able government jobs with guaranteed salaries to plant staples?...
Senegal: A rural youth employment policy champion
24/05/2016
Thanks to the Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for promoting decent rural youth employment, Senegal will be among the first African countries...
ICA Programme: Promoting rural youth employment in Senegal and Uganda
16/03/2016
On Thursday, 3 March 2016, FAO staff and representatives from the governments of Senegal and Uganda gathered together in Rome to share first-hand experiences...
Community listeners’ clubs empower rural women and men
30/11/2015
Give women access to information and the possibility to communicate and they will change the world. That is the premise behind the FAO Dimitra community...
Reducing youth migration in Ethiopia and Tunisia
05/10/2015
FAO and the Government of Tunisia signed a partnership agreement which aims to reduce youth mobility caused by poverty, by implementing innovative policies...
Initiative with Ethiopia aims to boost opportunities for rural youth
16/07/2015
FAO and the government of Ethiopia signed a partnership agreement which aims to reduce youth mobility caused by poverty, through innovative policies...
New FAO funding mechanism makes its debut
29/11/2010
Sweden and the Netherlands today became the first resource partners to provide funds to FAO's new multipartner programme, a direct follow up to FAO...