268 Results Are Tagged With "Environment and Sustainability"

Malaria is a life-threatening tropical disease affecting millions of Nigerians. A structured malaria elimination network (s-MEN) is desired to achieve mosquito (parasite host) control by destroying breeding sites around communities in Southeast Nigeria. Local participants will be mobilized to engage in malaria disease prevention activities.

While Liberia’s economy has not fully recovered to pre-war levels (prior to 1989), its population of about 5 million continues to grow at a high rate. As a result, the country is faced with the twin challenge of a particularly large youth population (over 70 percent are below the age of 35), and a pervasive lack of job opportunities. This leads to high level of vulnerability among youth. Only 3.5 percent of youth ages 15-24 have stable jobs in the formal sector. The majority are employed in the informal sector, either as unpaid family workers or self-employed. Moreover, rural areas face an additional challenge of persistent food insecurity. We think, providing young people with access to productive employment is critical to ensure economic recovery and stability in the country. Ours Project aims to increase access to income generation opportunities for young people in Bassa. Our project uses a community-based productive inclusion approach to provide economic and empowerment opportunities for youth living in both rural and urban areas. The project has a strong emphasis on youth economic empowerment. Additionally, one of the project components specifically aims to promote productive inclusion of rural youth. It supports them with life and business skills training, improved agriculture techniques, labor subsidies and farm. (to procure seeds and tools). This approach will help many extremely poor youths living in rural communities become self-sufficient while at the same time contribute to the development of their communities. We will work together with than to develop farms, grow and sell their produce, save proceeds for their own businesses, and support their communities in the process. We also believe this project facilitates transition to productive employment for youth who would like to open their own business and successfully transition into the labor market.