To address the challenges of youth unemployment crisis in Jordan the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ), the Ministry of Education (MoE), and Jordanian nonprofit INJAZ launched a Financial Education Program (FEP) in 2016 to deliver financial and entrepreneurial skills training to students in grades seven through 12 across all public, private, and refugee schools.

In addition to building competence in economics and accounting, the FEP promotes 21st century skills such as critical thinking, negotiation, and teamwork. These transferable skills help Jordanian youth embrace an entrepreneurial mindset that can create new jobs and spur economic growth.

In 2019, Jamaican organisation Desnoes and Geddes (D&G) Foundation sponsored 300 young Jamaicans to get training at the Red Stripe Bar Academy for jobs in the entertainment and tourism sectors, under the Learning for Life Programme.

This programme offered the support young people need to achieve personal development, social mobility and economic advancement.The programme was geared towards the provision of specific job qualifications in bartending. The students on completion of the programme, would earn accredited qualifications accepted internationally.

Development organisation BRAC has partnered with Microsoft to bring vocational training to Bangladesh’s youth. The Skills Development Programme will provide students between 16 and 30 with instruction in graphic design, electrical installation and maintenance.

It aims to enhance learning and job productivity through a technology-driven gamified course curriculum, digital materials and assessments.

The Skills Development Programme aims to help students, IT instructors, administrators, and managerial staff. According to BRAC, the organisation will help the programme’s participants find job placements once they have completed their training.

Recently The World Bank has approved a $55 million loan to Morocco to enable the country develop youth employability programs in the Marrakesh-Safi region within the frame of a new project destined to provide economic support to youths.This project will combine training for lower skilled youth, support potential entrepreneurs and investments in local businesses in promising value chains.The project will target a set of beneficiaries including young men and women who are neither employed nor in training as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises operating in value chains with high potential for growth.

The project will set-up “one-stop-centers” which will provide career guidance as well as on-the-job training in the seven provinces of the Region and in the Marrakech prefecture. Managed under the supervision of Morocco’s employment agency (ANAPEC), these centers will establish greater synergies between existing national programs, the private sector and the relevant public authorities to identify the needs of the local private sector and equip young people with the relevant skills and information to access and maximize these opportunities.