Skills for youth employment and rural development: Building a future with decent work for young people
Provides an overview of the Skills for Youth Employment and Rural Development Programme, a five-year partnership between the ILO and the Danish Africa Commission which is supporting social partners in Zimbabwe, Benin and Burkina Faso to address the challenges of youth employment and rural development. The skills training strategy focuses broadly on two main areas of action: 1) introducing the ILO's Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) methodology in rural communities, and 2) improving the Quality of delivery of training in Informal Apprenticeship (QIA) in the informal economy. The post-training strategy includes making microfinance and business development service markets work for youth and their self-help groups or cooperatives.