Youth Employment Working Group: Policy Level Interventions by Governments, Helene Cyr, Education Development Center (EDC)

This Youth Employment Working Group Coffee and Bagel session will focus on policy level interventions by governments and feature speaker Helene Cyr, from the Education Development Center (EDC).

Helene Cyr:

We (EDC) conducted two analysis aiming at answering the following trivial question: “If the Government of (Senegal or Rwanda) wishes to expand employability and entrepreneurship programs at the national level, what is the institutionalization strategy, and consequently the costs and resources to be foreseen in the planning and in the Ministerial budgeting in order to scale-up quality and relevant programs? We did this with Rwandan and Senegal General Education and TVET Ministries, and their responses were very positive. We heard: This is a first and so much needed”.