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Prince’s Trust International and partners commit to creating pathways into decent and green careers for young people aged 15-35, from low-income backgrounds. From April 2022 to March 2025, we will support 33,021 young people (min. 50% female) from India, Pakistan, Greece, Jordan, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, through employment and entrepreneurship programmes, with a focus on the green economy. We will equip young people with the necessary skills and knowledge and provide them with opportunities to move into employment or self-employment, including within green sectors. Funding is a mix of government, corporate, and philanthropic.

Entity

Prince's Trust International Youth organization, civil society, non-governmental, non-profit organization

Technical assistance, expertise and implementation; Financial and/or in-kind contribution

Partners

  • HEART/NSTA Trust

    Government or intergovernmental entity

    Technical assistance, expertise and implementation; Financial and/or in-kind contribution

  • Jamaica Youth Business Trust

    Youth organization, civil society, non-governmental, non-profit organization

    Technical assistance, expertise and implementation

  • Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment - Barbados

    Government or intergovernmental entity

    Technical assistance, expertise and implementation; Financial and/or in-kind contribution

Sustainable Development Goals & targets

  • 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
  • 8.4 Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
  • 8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
  • 8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
  • 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Themes

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Prince’s Trust International partners with organisations around the world to adapt and deliver education, employment, and enterprise programmes. Programmes focus on developing skills, such as communication, teamwork, problem solving and confidence to fill the gap identified by employers and young people. We are working with employers and technical experts to adapt employment and enterprise programmes to inspire and support young people into green careers.

We know from our report on young people’s attitudes towards the future of work, An Upskill Struggle, that 73% of young people are interested in working in the green economy while 75% have an interest in starting their own business. By March 2025, we will support 33,021 young people through employability and entrepreneurship programmes, with over 55% of these programmes focused on the green economy. Our Enterprise Challenge programme includes green modules, which inspire young people to create green businesses and we are working to add circular economy and sustainable business practice content into our Explore Enterprise programme, to support young people at business launch stage to make their businesses more sustainable. As a result, we expect at least 200 green businesses to be created.

Our Get Into employability programme partners with employers in various sectors, including those in emerging green sectors to support unemployed young people to develop the necessary skills and move into decent and, where possible, green jobs. We anticipate that at least 50% of participants will move into decent work, with 7% of those in the green economy.

https://princestrustinternational.org/employer-spotlight-starsight-energy-nigeria/
https://princestrustinternational.org/celebrating-kenya/
https://princestrustinternational.org/inspirational-young-woman-from-jamaica-announced-as-the-regional-winner-of-the-princes-trust-global-award/
https://princestrustinternational.org/case-studies/sports-footprint-startab/
https://princestrustinternational.org/case-studies/danielleexplore-enterprise/

Deliverables and links to SDG targets

  • Progress: 36,553 young people trained in relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, ICT skills and soft skills

    8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

    33,021 young people trained in life skills including communication, teamwork, problem solving, managing feelings, leadership, reliability, setting and achieveing goals, digital skills and confidence.

    BY: Mar 2025
  • Progress: 9,754 out of 14466 young people benefitted from employment services, including job search assistance, job fairs and career counselling

    8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

    14,466 young people benefitting from employment services including technical training, work placements, on the job training, Get Hired events (similar to a job fair), mock interviews, and mentoring with at least 50% (7,233) moving into decent work, 7% (518) of which will be in the green economy

    BY: Mar 2025
  • Progress: 26,799 young people supported through entrepreneurship training, advisory services, access to markets or access to finance

    8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

    18555 will take part in the Enterprise Challenge and Explore Enterprise programmes, participating in training on topics such as business basics, marketing, book-keeping, sales, pricing, planning and sustainable business practices, inspiring and supporting them to start a business

    BY: Mar 2025
  • Progress: 33 out of 322 youth-led enterprises created or improved

    8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

    At least 322 businesses created as a result of 18,555 young people supported through enterprise programmes. 64% of the businesses (205) will be green and some will be created by groups of young people

    BY: Mar 2025
  • Progress: 6,551,652 out of 9258000 United States dollars committed to public-private and civil society partnerships in support of decent jobs for youth

    8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

    Over ~$9,258,900 to support 33,021 young people

    BY: Mar 2025
Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria
Rwanda
Jordan
Barbados
Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago
India
Pakistan
Greece

Start

01-Apr-2022

End

31-Mar-2025

USD 9,258,000

Estimated total value of the commitment

36,553

young people to benefit directly from this commitment

Target: Only young people 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-35

Primarily:
  • Low-income individuals

Challenges faced in implementation

It has been challenging to identify sufficient green job opportunities to focus the majority of employability programmes on green sectors. In many countries these industries remain small but are steadily growing so we expect the number of opportunities to grow year on year. In order to track whether jobs secured and business created are in the green sector we ask partners to report on this information however we often find this data is missing. This is often because the young person my not share this detail with partners, or capacity within partners limits the time that can be spent on data entry. We will continue to encourage this data collection and sharing so we can have a better picture of the types of jobs young people move into.

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