Despite its growing relevance, employment promotion in rural areas with a focus on youth is still a relatively new topic in German development cooperation. Very few projects explicitly address the issue in a comprehensive manner. Yet many rural and economic development projects are targeting different aspects of employment promotion, providing a range of important lessons learned.
The main objective of the report is thus to outline different approaches to rural youth employment promotion within GIZ programs and distill their main success factors. Building on those success factors the study developed an Integrated Approach to Employment Promotion adapted to rural youth employment which can be flexibly implemented at meso- and micro-level, both in a project or a country portfolio context.
