Activity under preparation PJTY: Powering Jordan Talented Youth <p>The action will fully align with the Government of Jordan's National Youth Support Strategy (2019-2025) by supporting forging active participation and citizenship, continuous learning, entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment for young people. The action will also relate to Jordan Economic Growth Plan 2018-2022, the National Green Growth Plan and the National Tourism Strategy, and Jordan's Digital Economy Action Plan (Reach 2025).</p><p>The action is developed around the following priorities:</p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Educated youth inclusion: the action targets educated youth from 18-30 years old, with different levels of education and from different areas of specialisation, including but not limiting ourselves to the three main targeted sectors (ICT, manufacturing, tourism and the services sector). It will focus on young people from remote and hard-to-reach areas of Madaba, Karak, Zarqa, and Balqa and will ensure that at least 50% of the participants are women, and 6% are indiviuals with disabilities.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Growing economic sectors support: the action will firstly access the state of play in the growing green, ICT, and creative industries to identify and train the selected youth on the most in-demand professions within these econommic sector. To that extivities to be implemented will rely on a close collaboration with expert partners from the private sector and participating companies in each targeted sector following a responsive, needs-based, and deman-driven approach.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Youth market entry increase: a hybrid emploment scheme has been chosen to boost youth inclusion in the labour market, and in Jordan's development process as a whole. The action's methodology is responsive to the context of each governorate and tailored to the participants' specific needs. The consortium will focus on building the interpersonal, intrapersonal, and technical skills of educated youth based on a preliminary participatory needs assessment and through the referencing of stakeholders fro the private sector. The action strives for long-term impact in fostering sustanable employment and self-employment opportunities for the young leaders of today and tomorrow.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Private sector involvement: private sector entities have been involved in the development of the action and will remain continuously involved as key partners throughout the project implementation. The private sector ecosystem will be referenced through a mapping exercise and consulted again in the preliminary phase of the action, in order to readjust the project desin if necessary, and ensure its responsiveness to the market demand. In addition, human resources capcity-building programmes will be proposed to partner companies, thus ensuring continuous linkages between employers, current emplyees and the next generations of young graduates.</li></ol><p><br></p><p>Overall Objective of the intervention: a) to complement the action of the government of Jordan as part of its National Youth Support Strategy in contributing to the improvement of young people's participation in the labour market within the economic growth sectors; b) to strengthen the position and participation of youth in Jordan's society.</p><p>Specific Objectives: a) reduce youth unemplyment in Jordan, targeting educated youth inclusion in the labor market through the entry point of ICT, green and creative industries's growing economic sectors; b) bridge the identified gap and connect each side of the triangle.</p><p>Target Groups: youth aged 18-30 years old residing in the center of Jordan outside of Amman.</p>