Promoting Youth Self-Employment in Paraguay

Summary

To help develop self-employment initiatives as an answer to the increasing labor demand in the youth population and to contribute to the social and economic development of Paraguay.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Young Paraguayans are the most affected by unemployment, by the lack of quality in their formal education, by the deficiencies in public health services, and by incomplete access to basic sanitation, drinking water, electricity and physical and social infrastructure. This project will benefit approximately 260 young people who participate in the project’s process of technical habilitation.

Activities

To develop mechanisms that support youth self-employment and the active participation of youth in the social and economic development of Paraguay.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Funding Policy: partial (Retired)

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

To strengthen the capacities of juvenile entrepreneurship and to develop mechanisms that support youth self-employment and the active participation of youth in the social and economic development of Paraguay.

Project Message

In a society where people are used to thinking of youth as the ‘future,' we must be challenged to think of youth as the present.
- Camilo Soares Machado, Director of Projects

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Camilo Soares Machado,
Director of Projects, Casa de la Juventud
Corrales # 592 c/ Paraguari
Barrio Obrero
Asuncion, Capital
Paraguay
(595 21) 373242
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Casa de la Juventud Foundation Logo Casa de la Juventud Foundation
Corrales # 592 e
Mexico y Paraguari
Barrio Obrero, Asuncion 
Paraguay
(+595 21) 373.242
http://casajuventud.pyglobal.com

Learn more about Casa de la Juventud Foundation and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Paraguay and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Paraguay, read the Human Development Report on Paraguay or the Wikipedia entry for Paraguay.

When this Project was Updated

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 30, 2003.