Key numbers:
- 14,024 youth — 50% of whom are female — in rural and urban areas have received life and business skills training in Liberia
- More than 5,000 hectares of land across all 15 counties in Liberia have been cultivated with various food crops
The Liberian economy is struggling to recover from more than a decade of civil war. The Ebola crises, and now the global COVID-19 pandemic, have further impeded these efforts. Generating employment for the large population of young people in Liberia—over 70 percent of the population is below the age of 35—is critical to ensuring economic recovery and stability.
A collaboration between IDA and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is empowering poor and vulnerable youth to improve their income-generating potential. The Youth Opportunities Project (YOP) provides life, agriculture, and business skills training. As many young people in Liberia lack basic numeracy, literacy, and life skills, this training is vital to the country’s economic recovery.
Read more about this project in this World Bank article here!