{"id":4980,"date":"2023-10-21T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matsh.co\/en\/?post_type=course&#038;p=4980"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:35:56","slug":"managing-youth-economic-development-projects","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/matsh.co\/en\/course\/managing-youth-economic-development-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Youth Economic Development Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background:var(--bg);border:1.5px solid var(--border);border-radius:16px;padding:36px 40px;margin-bottom:32px\">\n  <p style=\"font-size:1rem;color:var(--text);line-height:1.85;margin:0 0 24px\">Youth unemployment rates in the Arab world consistently rank among the highest globally. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, the working-age population is growing faster than formal employment can absorb it. In South and Southeast Asia, millions of young people are employed but in precarious, low-productivity work that offers no pathway to economic security. The response has been a proliferation of youth economic development projects, enterprise training, vocational skills, microfinance, job placement schemes. Some work. Many do not. The difference is almost never budget. It is design, implementation, and the ability to understand the economic context young people are actually operating in.<\/p>\n  <div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px\">\n    <div style=\"background:#fff;border:1.5px solid var(--border);border-radius:12px;padding:16px 20px;flex:1;min-width:130px;text-align:center\"><strong style=\"display:block;font-size:1.6rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--youth);line-height:1\">25%<\/strong><span style=\"font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);line-height:1.5;display:block;margin-top:5px\">youth unemployment rate in the Arab world, the highest of any world region<\/span><\/div>\n    <div style=\"background:#fff;border:1.5px solid var(--border);border-radius:12px;padding:16px 20px;flex:1;min-width:130px;text-align:center\"><strong style=\"display:block;font-size:1.6rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--youth);line-height:1\">70%<\/strong><span style=\"font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);line-height:1.5;display:block;margin-top:5px\">of youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa is in the informal economy, the primary economic reality for most youth programmes<\/span><\/div>\n    <div style=\"background:#fff;border:1.5px solid var(--border);border-radius:12px;padding:16px 20px;flex:1;min-width:130px;text-align:center\"><strong style=\"display:block;font-size:1.6rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--youth);line-height:1\">230+<\/strong><span style=\"font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);line-height:1.5;display:block;margin-top:5px\">development professionals trained by Matsh in youth economic development across the Gulf, Africa and Asia<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-pain\">\n  <p style=\"font-weight:700;font-size:1.05rem;margin:0;color:var(--navy)\">The youth economic development programme problems practitioners consistently report:<\/p>\n  <ul>\n    <li>You designed your programme based on what you thought young people needed economically, not what a labour market analysis actually revealed about the opportunities available to them<\/li>\n    <li>Your enterprise training produces business plans. Almost none of the businesses actually launch, and the few that do rarely survive six months<\/li>\n    <li>Your job placement programme places young people in jobs. Most of them leave or are asked to leave within three months because the placement was not designed with retention in mind<\/li>\n    <li>Your programme targets young women but the gender barriers to their economic participation are more significant than any skills gap, and the programme is not addressing them<\/li>\n    <li>Your funder is asking for impact data and you can report jobs placed or businesses started, but not sustained income or economic wellbeing<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n  <p style=\"margin:16px 0 0;font-weight:700;color:var(--youth);font-size:.97rem\">This course gives practitioners the design thinking, technical knowledge and implementation skills to build youth economic development programmes that produce real, lasting economic outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"yed-sh\">Who Should Attend<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yed-cards\">\n  <div class=\"yed-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udccb<\/div><h4>Programme Managers<\/h4><p>Staff managing youth livelihoods, enterprise or employment programmes who want stronger design and implementation tools.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f<\/div><h4>Government Officials<\/h4><p>Ministry staff responsible for youth employment, vocational training and entrepreneurship who want a stronger programme design base.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udcbc<\/div><h4>Enterprise Programme Staff<\/h4><p>Staff in youth enterprise incubators, business development services and employment programmes wanting better tools for their work.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udcb0<\/div><h4>Financial Inclusion Practitioners<\/h4><p>Microfinance and financial inclusion practitioners working with young people who want to integrate economic development approaches.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83c\udf0d<\/div><h4>UN and INGO Staff<\/h4><p>Programme officers managing youth economic empowerment portfolios in UN agencies and international organisations.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-card\"><div style=\"font-size:1.8rem\">\ud83d\udd0d<\/div><h4>Consultants<\/h4><p>Independent consultants designing or evaluating youth economic development projects who want a stronger methodological base.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-gains\">\n  <h2 style=\"font-size:1.45rem;font-weight:800;color:var(--navy);margin:0 0 6px\">What You Will Leave With<\/h2>\n  <p style=\"color:var(--text);margin:0 0 24px;font-size:.95rem\">A complete youth economic development design and implementation toolkit.<\/p>\n  <div class=\"yed-gain-grid\">\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Labour market analysis framework<\/strong> for understanding the economic opportunities actually available to your target group<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Intervention selection guide<\/strong>, how to choose between wage employment, self-employment, enterprise and skills models for your context<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Gender-sensitive programme design framework<\/strong> for reaching and retaining young women in economic development programmes<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Private sector engagement strategy<\/strong> for building partnerships that actually produce employment outcomes<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Young entrepreneur support framework<\/strong>, what viable youth enterprises actually need beyond a business plan<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Dropout prevention toolkit<\/strong>, addressing the specific reasons young people disengage from economic development programmes<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>M&amp;E framework<\/strong> for measuring economic outcomes beyond placement numbers<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-gain\"><span class=\"yed-ck\">\u2713<\/span><span><strong>Theory of change template<\/strong> for youth economic development in your specific context<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-stat\">\n  <h3 style=\"font-size:1.3rem;font-weight:800;margin:0 0 6px\">What Participants Report<\/h3>\n  <p style=\"opacity:.85;margin:0 0 20px;font-size:.92rem\">From follow-up surveys after the programme<\/p>\n  <div class=\"yed-sr\">\n    <div class=\"yed-si\"><strong>91%<\/strong><span>redesigned or improved their<br>programme based on the course<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-si\"><strong>85%<\/strong><span>conducted a labour market analysis<br>for the first time within 60 days<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-si\"><strong>230+<\/strong><span>development professionals trained<br>across Gulf, Africa and Asia<\/span><\/div>\n    <div class=\"yed-si\"><strong>16+<\/strong><span>countries represented across<br>all cohorts<\/span><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-qt\">\n    \"We had been running a youth enterprise programme in Lagos for three years. Graduates left with business plans. Almost none had launched a business. This course showed us why, we had designed around what we thought young people needed, not what the market could actually support. We rebuilt the programme around a proper labour market analysis and sector opportunities. The year-one launch rate for the next cohort was 60%.\" <br><em style=\"opacity:.7;font-size:.82rem\">Programme Director, youth enterprise NGO, Lagos cohort<\/em>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"yed-sh\">Programme Outline<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"yed-day\">\n  <div class=\"yed-dh\"><div class=\"yed-dn\">1<\/div><strong>Understanding Youth Economic Development and Labour Market Analysis<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-db\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Programmes designed without a labour market analysis are designed around assumptions. Module 1 builds the skills to produce a rapid, actionable labour market analysis, the essential first step before any programme design decision.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>The youth economic development landscape: what works, what does not, and what the systematic evidence says<\/li>\n      <li>Youth unemployment in GCC, Africa and Asia: the specific drivers in each context and what they mean for programme design<\/li>\n      <li>The informal economy as the primary economic reality for most youth programmes in Africa and parts of Asia<\/li>\n      <li>Labour market analysis methods: sector mapping, employer interviews, value chain analysis, rapid market assessment<\/li>\n      <li>Understanding demand-side constraints: what employers actually want from young workers and why they often do not hire them<\/li>\n      <li>Workshop: participants conduct a rapid labour market analysis for their programme context<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-day\">\n  <div class=\"yed-dh\"><div class=\"yed-dn\">2<\/div><strong>Intervention Models: What Works and When<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-db\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Choosing the wrong intervention model is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes in youth economic development. Module 2 builds the knowledge to match the model to the context.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>Wage employment pathways: job placement, internships, apprenticeships, design principles and what makes them work<\/li>\n      <li>Self-employment and micro-enterprise support: who benefits, who does not, and why the evidence is more mixed than enthusiasts admit<\/li>\n      <li>Enterprise development for higher-potential young entrepreneurs: what this requires beyond standard enterprise training<\/li>\n      <li>Vocational and technical skills training: quality standards, market linkages, sector relevance<\/li>\n      <li>Digital livelihoods and the gig economy: opportunities and risks for young people across Gulf, African and Asian markets<\/li>\n      <li>Integrated models: combining skills, finance and market access, the evidence on what works better together<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-day\">\n  <div class=\"yed-dh\"><div class=\"yed-dn\">3<\/div><strong>Gender-Sensitive Design, Private Sector Engagement and Working with Young Entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-db\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Gender barriers to economic participation are often more significant than skills gaps. Private sector partnerships are essential and often fail. Young entrepreneurs need support that goes well beyond business plan training. Module 3 addresses all three.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>Gender barriers to youth economic participation in GCC, African and Asian contexts: mobility, social norms, access to finance, family expectations<\/li>\n      <li>Designing programmes that reach and retain young women: specific approaches for each context<\/li>\n      <li>What employers actually want from youth employment programmes, and why most programmes do not give it to them<\/li>\n      <li>Building private sector partnerships that produce employment outcomes rather than CSR photo opportunities<\/li>\n      <li>The reality of youth entrepreneurship: necessity vs opportunity entrepreneurship, why most business plans do not produce businesses<\/li>\n      <li>What viable youth enterprises actually need: mentoring, market linkages, peer networks, iterative support<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-day\">\n  <div class=\"yed-dh\"><div class=\"yed-dn\">4<\/div><strong>Implementation Challenges and Adaptive Management<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-db\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Youth economic development programmes face predictable implementation challenges that most programmes are not designed to address. Module 4 builds the skills to anticipate and manage them.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>Dropout: why young people leave economic development programmes and what to do about it<\/li>\n      <li>Engaging young men who have disengaged from formal systems<\/li>\n      <li>Managing family and community resistance to young women's economic participation<\/li>\n      <li>The expectations gap: managing the gap between what programmes promise and what labour markets deliver<\/li>\n      <li>Adaptive management: using implementation learning to improve programmes in real time<\/li>\n      <li>Documenting programme evolution honestly for funders and for your own learning<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-day\">\n  <div class=\"yed-dh\"><div class=\"yed-dn\">5<\/div><strong>Monitoring, Evaluation and Programme Design Workshop<\/strong><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-db\">\n    <p><strong>Why this module matters:<\/strong> Measuring placement numbers is not measuring economic impact. Module 5 builds the M&amp;E literacy to capture what actually matters, and closes with a design workshop where participants apply everything from the course to improve their own programme.<\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>What good M&amp;E looks like in youth economic development: employment, income, business survival, wellbeing<\/li>\n      <li>Measuring impact vs measuring outputs: why the difference matters for your programme and your funding<\/li>\n      <li>Counterfactual thinking: how to know whether your programme produced the outcomes or whether they would have happened anyway<\/li>\n      <li>Cost-effectiveness analysis: what it is, why funders increasingly require it, how to do it<\/li>\n      <li>Design workshop: participants apply the course frameworks to redesign or improve their own youth economic development programme<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"border:1.5px solid var(--border);border-radius:14px;overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:44px\">\n  <div style=\"background:rgba(27,143,110,.08);padding:18px 24px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)\"><strong style=\"color:var(--navy)\">Course At a Glance<\/strong><\/div>\n  <table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:.9rem\">\n    <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)\"><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy);width:35%\">Locations<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">Dubai, Riyadh, Nairobi, Lagos, Doha, Online<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--border);background:var(--bg)\"><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy)\">Methodology<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">50% applied, labour market analysis, design workshops, case studies from Gulf and African contexts<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)\"><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy)\">Investment<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">Group rates available \u00b7 In-house pricing on request<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;font-weight:600;color:var(--navy)\">What's Included<\/td><td style=\"padding:14px 24px;color:var(--text)\">Workbook, labour market analysis framework, intervention selection guide, gender-sensitive design framework, M&amp;E toolkit, certificate<\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"yed-sh\">Common Questions<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:44px\">\n  <div class=\"yed-faq\"><p class=\"yed-fq\">Is this relevant for programmes working in the informal sector?<\/p><p class=\"yed-fa\">Yes. A significant portion of the course focuses on economic development in contexts where the informal sector is dominant, the reality for most youth economic development programming in Africa and parts of Asia. We do not design around the assumption of a functioning formal labour market.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div class=\"yed-faq\"><p class=\"yed-fq\">Does the course address digital livelihoods?<\/p><p class=\"yed-fa\">Yes. Digital livelihoods, gig economy work, and the opportunities and risks of tech-based income generation for young people are addressed specifically, including the digital connectivity and skills context across different Gulf, African and Asian markets.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"yed-sh\">Related Courses<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yed-rel-grid\">\n  <a class=\"yed-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/youth-policy-development\/\">Youth Policy Development<\/a>\n  <a class=\"yed-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/youth-business-development-training-program\/\">Youth Business Development<\/a>\n  <a class=\"yed-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/monitoring-and-evaluation-course\/\">Monitoring and Evaluation<\/a>\n  <a class=\"yed-rel\" href=\"\/en\/course\/essential-business-management-skills-for-female-entrepreneurs\/\">Business Skills for Women Entrepreneurs<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"yed-cta\">\n  <h3>Youth Economic Development That Works Starts With Understanding the Economy Young People Are Actually 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