Youth Employment Support JOBS

The Youth Employment Support (YES) Jobs for the Unemployed and Marginalized young People (JUMP) is part of the ILO’s response to the Decent Work Country Programme adopted by the Government, Workers and Employers. The objective of the ILO YES-JUMP Project is to contribute to the poverty alleviation efforts through creating decent and sustainable jobs for the youth of poor and marginalized communities. The YES JUMP project aims to help partner communities and youth groups find more socially responsible and community driven solutions to poverty alleviation, with alteast 50% of its target group being young women.

YES-JUMP, has been established in Kenya and Zimbabwe, with overall technical management from ILO’s Regional Office for Africa in Addis Ababa. The project facilitates and supports entrepreneurship development, skills training, technical and financial support to local job creation schemes and strengthening small enterprises and cooperatives and business development services. The project strategy is to create a broader partnership between local stakeholders to implement priority projects for youth at the community level.
It is a two year pilot project funded by the Federal Republic of Germany.

It is a part of ILO’s response to the Global Jobs Crisis in supporting young men and women in jobs creation and enterprise development. The principles of Decent work, Sustainable livelihoods and community participation guides the project in its strategy.

The two immediate objectives of the project are:

1. In order to reduce poverty, 1000 sustainable and decent jobs are created for young women and men in selected communities in each project country, taking participatory approaches.
2. Selected project partners at national and local levels are fully able to design and implement their own youth employment schemes (institutional building)


To ensure national ownership and a community driven project, the project’s guiding structures are the National Steering Committee at the national level, the Pilot project Implementation Committee at the community level with the Local Community Facilitators at the field level. The project is mainly guided by all these committees.


Project duration – 2009 – 2011

Target group – The intended beneficiaries are the young women and men in rural and urban economies in Kenya and Zimbabwe, as identified by the project partners and the National Steering Committee. These also youth organizations including cooperatives, associations, local community organizations at the community level.


YES JUMP take the following approach to develop and implement the pilot projects:


1. Poverty reduction through community based job creation schemes
2. Provision of business development services to address the gaps identified to supplement its job creation efforts
3. National, local ownership and involvement at all stages of the project

Project team

Chief Technical Adviser – Ms. Charu Bist, ILO Regional Office for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Kenya
National Project Coordinator – Ms. Jane Maigua, ILO Office in Nairobi
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Administrative Assistant – Ms. Mwongeli Muthuki

Zimbabwe
National Project Coordinator – Mr. Tapera Muzira, ILO Office in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Administrative Assistant – Ms. Pamela Masango