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Working with Peace Corps on Youth Employment

Working with Peace Corps on Youth Employment Tanya Gipson-Nahman, Education and Youth Specialist, Peace Corps Department of Labor Grantee Workshop, May 31, 2011. Overview of Peace Corps. Human resource agency with a focus on capacity building.

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Working with Peace Corps on Youth Employment

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  1. Working with Peace Corps on Youth Employment Tanya Gipson-Nahman, Education and Youth Specialist, Peace Corps Department of Labor Grantee Workshop, May 31, 2011

  2. Overview of Peace Corps • Human resource agency with a focus on capacity building. • Currently work in 70 countries with ~8,500 Volunteers serving worldwide • Volunteers serve for two years; average age is 28.

  3. The purpose of youth work is to engage and positively prepareyouth for their roles within family life, the world of work,and citizenship.

  4. Peace Corps’ work in Youth Development • In FY10, Volunteers reached almost 1.75 million young people under 25. This was a 5% increase from 2009. • In most of the countries in which we work, over 50% of the population is under 25 years

  5. Youth Development Key Principles • Youth as a resource • Actively promote youth participation • Support asset-based approaches to development

  6. Preparing Youth for the World of Work Five Principle Areas • Life Skills and Leadership • Financial Literacy • Employability Skills • Entrepreneurship • Vocational Education

  7. Working with the Peace Corps

  8. Life Skills and Leadership • Dept. of Labor school enrichment project to keep children in school

  9. Financial Literacy • Working with Microfinance Opportunities to adapt their financial literacy materials for Volunteer’s use

  10. Employability Skills • Partnership with A Ganar, a program of Partners of the Americas • Life Skills and employability skills through sports

  11. Entrepreneurship • Junior Achievement works with PC in several countries • Nicaragua’s Empresa Creativa has been adopted by the Ministry of Education

  12. Vocational Education • Escuela Taller program in Honduras – mix of local and international NGOs and government • Gulu Youth Development Association in Uganda

  13. What’s Next? • Youth Livelihoods Modules in partnership with USAID

  14. Thank you! Send email to: tgipsonnahman@peacecorps.gov

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