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- Youth Employment Services Program
Youth Employment Services Program
Palestine
Financing Type | Grants |
Category | Palestine |
Focus Area | Multisectoral |
Approved | 15.06.2012 |
Signed | 11.09.2012 |
Loan Administrator | OPEC Fund for International Development |
Organization | WELFARE ASSOCIATION |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 0.30 |
The grant has been extended to the Welfare Association in support of the Youth Employment Services Program. The main objectives of this program are to enhance the employability of young Palestinians; and to improve their income opportunities, social wellbeing and active civic engagement through internship opportunities, apprenticeship opportunities, entrepreneurship training and financial services, and outsourcing services for high impact entrepreneurs. A special focus will be on disadvantaged youth in areas of the West Bank and Gaza with the highest rates of unemployment.