Aiming to increase and strengthen youth’s labor skills to enhance their career opportunities, this multi-donor project, implemented in collaboration with the IDB Lab, will train 1,000 youth in digital, entrepreneurial, and soft skills. The project will focus on young people between 17-34 years old who are unemployed or underemployed.

The implementation methodology consists of the development of an innovative AI tool to assess the skills, knowledge, and experience commonly required by employers and businesses in Jamaica; develop and offer of training programs tailored according to the highest demanded skills that respond to real-time labor market needs; and connect trained youth with jobs, local freelancing opportunities or support them to develop new entrepreneurial ventures (spearheaded by the Institute of Law and Economics).

The execution of this project implies coordinating and collaborating with local business groups, trade associations, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), government institutions, and civil society to support the long-term continuity of the project’s goals.

For more information contact:
Shauna Todd
Project Coordinator
stodd@ileja.org
876-280-2016