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R esponding to unprecedented numbers of jobless youth worldwide and a growing acknowledge-ment that bold and coordinated actions are
needed to address the crisis, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) convened the Youth@Work: Bridging the Opportunity Divide conference in Washington, DC, in June. The three-day meeting focused on exploring solutions to youth unemployment, and attracted nearly 200 attendees, including top U.S. government officials, global corporate leaders, representatives from bi- and multi-lateral donor agencies, and youth activists. They were joined by youth-serving organizations from over 40 countries—representing IYF’s Global Partner Network. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Hilton Worldwide, MasterCard Worldwide, Microsoft, and the Caterpillar Foundation, co-sponsored the event. Corporate leaders from Accenture, CEMEX, Cummins, Laureate Education, Inc., and Walmart, among others, also participated in the panels and discussions.
Answering the “Call to Action”One significant thread running throughout the confer-ence was a sense of urgency that far more needs to be done to address the economic and social marginalization of the world’s youth. Providing the overall context for these discussions was a recently published IYF paper, Opportunity for Action: Preparing Youth for 21st Century Livelihoods, funded by Microsoft. The report identifies the educational and employment challenges facing young people across six regions of the world, and con-cludes with a “call to action” addressed to governments, businesses, civil society organizations, and youth.
Referring to the Opportunity for Action paper as a strong foundation for advancing the global conversation, former USAID Administrator Henrietta Holsman Fore told con-ference participants: “In the next decade, the world will be even more volatile than it is today, with huge migra-tions of people looking for jobs… That is why this report
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Youth:Work is a Global Development Alliance (GDA) Leader with Associates (LWA) assistance mechanism that USAID and other U.S. government agencies can utilize to access the youth employability programs, services and expertise of the International Youth Foundation (IYF).
Through the central Leader award, Youth:Work also promotes cross-project learning; targeted training and capacity building; rigorous monitoring and evaluation; support for partnership and leverage development; and other special initiatives.
USAID bureaus and missions may develop an Associate Award in a straightforward and rapid manner through the steps below:
• Designate an Activity Manager who will serve as AOR when the award is signed;
• Develop a Program Description, in collaboration with IYF, as desired;
• Clear the Program Description with Youth:Work Leader AOR (Patricia Flanagan, USAID/I&E, [email protected]);
• Send the Program Description to IYF for proposal development (Missions may continue collaboration with IYF during process if desired);
• Review and Approve IYF’s Proposal and provide comments to the Agreement Officer. (Missions may continue collaboration with IYF during this process); and
• Make an Associate Award to IYF.
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Awais Sufi IYF Executive Vice President, Programs
Angela Venza IYF Program Director
[From left to right] IYF’s President and CEO Bill Reese, Former USAID Administrator Henrietta Holsman Fore, and Peter Woicke, former CEO of the International Finance Corporation, help lead the discussion on youth employment at the Youth@Work conference in Washington, DC.
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Finding Solutions to Youth EmploymentYouth:Work Event Convenes Global Stakeholders to Shape Strategies for the Future
“The international nature of the youth livelihood challenge means that our approach must be collective, massive, and global.”
— Opportunity for Action: Preparing Youth for 21st Century Livelihoods
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is so timely.” She emphasized the need to think big, scale up, and consolidate programs.
The event reflected the growing number of com-panies that are embracing their role in addressing the youth unemployment challenge—and recog-nizing that a successful future for young people is critical to a peaceful and prosperous world. In his keynote address at the conference, President and CEO of Hilton Worldwide Chris Nassetta talked about his company’s response to the global “call to action”—including Hilton’s new partnership with IYF to improve the lives of youth in local communities worldwide. “If we can bring the pri-vate sector together in partnership with the NGO community,” he said, “we can make a difference, opening new doors and providing a line of sight to a better future.” When discussing Microsoft’s efforts to prepare young people with the skills to be successful in the 21st century, North America Com-munity Affairs Director Andrea Taylor declared that “Young people must be at the table… Their partnership is essential.” In her remarks on an after-noon panel, MasterCard Worldwide’s Group Head of Corporate Philanthropy and Citizenship, Patricia Devereux, discussed her company’s commitment to help young people realize their potential through financial inclusion. “How do we help small busi-nesses to grow? Help young people access capital and entrepreneurial skills and mentoring.”
In addition to spotlighting corporate-supported youth employability programs, the June confer-ence sparked growing interest in a bold new public/private initiative in Latin America called “New Employment Opportunities” (NEO). Sup-ported by the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank and IYF, this multi-sector regional effort plans to prepare a million young people for decent jobs over the next decade, with significant private sector support. Mar-tha Herrera-Gonzalez explained why her company,
CEMEX, Mexico, has joined NEO. “We wanted to grow as a company, and to do that we need a pros-perous community and motivated youth.”
A Focus on Youth:WorkAt the heart of the event’s learning and knowledge sharing agenda was IYF’s ongoing efforts, through its global Youth:Work programs and similar ini-tiatives, to strengthen and expand effective job training and entrepreneurship programs and build multi-stakeholder partnerships to pursue greater impact. Significant Youth:Work themes, such as public/private sector alliance building, entre-preneurship, job placement and career guidance, gender equality, and working closely with employ-ers to design relevant job training programming, were reflected throughout the conference. More than 20 Youth:Work representatives—including USAID officials and program implementers from Jordan, Senegal, Uganda, Mexico, and the Carib-bean—served as panelists and moderators to help guide the discussions and share their experiences.
Beth Paige, Mission Director of USAID/Jordan who works closely with the Youth:Work Jordan initiative highlighted the challenges ahead, during her remarks on the “Bridging the Opportunity Divide” panel. “Yes, we need to think bigger and scale up our work,” she said, “but we also need to think smaller and work with families or we will lose this battle.” She underscored the critical need to equip disadvantaged and under-served young people in Jordan and across the region with relevant skills, education, and job opportunities. “If we don’t embrace them,” she warned, “someone else will.”
On the final day of the event, a gathering of 52 Youth:Work staff and partners from 14 countries provided the opportunity to foster further learn-ing and forge relationships among the ten active Youth:Work programs. Participants delved into approaches and challenges around life skills,
career guidance, entrepreneurship, multi-sectoral partnerships and employer engagement. Together, they established connections for continued shar-ing across the Youth:Work’s global portfolio of programs. [See CYEP update on page 3 for details on pre-conference learning exchange among Youth:Work implementers from Antigua and Bar-buda, Grenada, Jordan, Mozambique, and St. Lucia during a site visit to the Living Classrooms Founda-tion in Baltimore, Maryland.]
We Are Not Alone: IYF’s Global Partner Network Promotes LearningSharing successful strategies and approaches with others in the field is critical to the ongoing success and growth of IYF’s worldwide programs such as Youth:Work. IYF-sponsored regional and global meetings, like this one in Washington, DC, not only serve to deepen understanding around key issues and promote valuable learning exchanges. They also help build momentum among corpo-rate, government and civil society stakeholders to move beyond the status quo and work together to dramatically expand educational, employment, and citizenship opportunities among the world’s youth.
Dr. Jackie Bird, Co-Director of RISE St. Lucia, offered her reflections on the June meeting. “What this conference gave us was an opportunity to see first-hand the importance of being part of a global agenda for youth development, to witness the commitment of critical international play-ers—especially those in the corporate sector—and to experience the power of partnering. We also learned that we are not alone in our struggles, that others are facing similar and sometimes unique challenges around the world, and that we can learn from their best practices and innovations to solve problems. Together, we can connect to IYF’s exten-sive network of implementers and donors and share our own stories, however small.”
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Youth:Work Mobilizes Programs and Knowledge: A Global Success Story
Youth:Work offers a strong model for how a global program can marshal both financial and in-kind support to strengthen and expand its efforts. Such resources, mobilized from a variety of private and public sector institutions, have helped expand the program’s reach by replicating program models and best practices, sharing knowledge through publications and events, and matching USAID resources for Associate Award program activities on the ground.
Since Youth:Work was launched in 2008, nearly US$60 million in additional resources have helped advance its goal of improving youth livelihoods on a global scale. The graph at right provides further detail.
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Algerian Youth Opportunity ProgramWorking in close cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Algiers, USAID, and stakeholders from the Algerian public, private, and civil society sectors, IYF is implementing a three-year US$2.7 million Associate Award to expand opportunities among Algerian youth in the areas of employabil-ity, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement. The Algerian Youth Opportunity Program (AYOP) aims to build on Government of Algeria initiatives to provide increased opportunities for youth to access comprehensive and inclusive programs and services, and to better prepare these government agencies to interact more positively with the young people they serve. For more information please visit www.iyfnet.org/program/2368.
During the first half of 2012, IYF consulted with USAID, the U.S. Embassy in Algiers, and a variety of Algerian stakeholders to determine optimal pro-gram implementation strategies. As a result of these dialogues, IYF will soon launch program initiatives, in cooperation with the Ministry of National Soli-darity and Family and other partners, to provide youth who are beneficiaries of Algerian government services with training in life skills, computer skills, and “French in the workplace” language skills. In addition, Algerian civil servants will receive train-ing to help them improve the quality of services provided to youth, including how to make such services more youth-friendly. This approach will be piloted in the region of Annaba, and in early 2013 will be scaled up to reach three other regions across the country.
Caribbean Youth Empowerment ProgramLaunched in 2008, the Caribbean Youth Empow-erment Program (CYEP) equips vulnerable Caribbean youth, ages 17 to 25, with the technical, vocational, and life skills needed to develop sustain-able livelihoods. In July 2011, USAID awarded IYF with an additional grant of $US2.5 million to scale up activities in Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and St. Lucia. For more information on the CYEP pro-gram, please visit www.iyfnet.org/document/2270.
In May, the CYEP team finalized the Caribbean adaptation of IYF’s Passport to Success® (PTS) life skills curriculum including the development of 10 new lessons that focus on entrepreneurship training. In total, twenty-five trainers from all six CYEP projects were successfully trained on the new curriculum. For information on PTS and CYEP's 10 new lessons that focus on entrepreneurship training, visit www.iyfnet.org/passport-to-success and www.iyfnet.org/news/2377.
In St. Lucia, the consortium of youth-serving organizations, including the National Skills Devel-opment Centre, the Centre for Adolescent Renewal and Education, and RISE, expanded to include the James Belgrave Micro Enterprise Development Fund (BELfund) and the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce. The larger consortium will provide young people with an expanded menu of compre-hensive services, help strengthen the organizational capacity of its members to advocate for youth needs, and create an enabling environment where stakeholders from the public and private sectors can work with civil society organizations to address the employability needs of vulnerable youth.
In Antigua and Barbuda the Gilbert Agricultural and Rural Development Center (GARDC) part-nered with three public sector institutions—the Antigua and Barbuda Hospitality Training Institute, the Antigua and Barbuda Institute of Continu-ing Education, and the Directorate of Gender Affairs—to expand its youth training offerings and to establish a consortium of youth-serving organi-zations empowered to advocate on behalf of a youth employability agenda.
In June, CYEP partners in Grenada, New Life Organization and Grenada Industrial Develop-ment Corporation, initiated projects focused on entrepreneurship and vocational training. They plan to work together to strengthen their services and develop multi-sector partnerships that support sustainability.
Also in June, prior to attending the Global Partner Meeting in Washington, DC, 13 CYEP partners visited IYF’s Baltimore-based partner, Living Classrooms Foundation, offering a valuable oppor-tunity for the group to observe and share lessons learned with a successful employability train-ing program that works directly with Baltimore City at-risk youth. Roberta Williams, Executive Director of GARDC, commented that, “[I]n the discussions with [Living Classroom’s] staff mem-bers, it became very evident that we all share very similar challenges in working with vulnerable youth." The group also shared effective strategies to address these challenges. For more information on this valuable experience, please visit IYF's blog at iyfnet.blogspot.com/2012/07/young-people-and-violence-aurora.html.
Youth:Work partners from the Caribbean and Africa learn about a youth job training program during a site visit to Living Classrooms in Baltimore, Maryland focused on sharing experiences and best practices.
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Jasa.kgJasa.kg is a four-year US$4.2 million civic engage-ment and workforce development initiative, launched in March 2011, that is designed to cata-lyze a generation of young people to actively engage in building a stable, prosperous and democratic Kyrgyzstan. For more information on the program, please visit www.iyfnet.org/jasa.kg.
In the last six months, Jasa.kg significantly expanded its partnership network, which in turn led to an expansion of the program’s target areas to Osh, Jalal-Abad, Kara Balta and new settlements of Bishkek. Other accomplishments include the expansion of the program’s entrepreneurship initiative under Bishkek Business Club’s “Youth Entrepreneurship Year” and the formation of various youth clubs—including entrepreneurship clubs (Central Asian Free Market Institute) and volunteer clubs (Youth of Osh). A mentorship program for Summer School of Democracy graduates was also completed.
Jasa.kg introduced IYF’s flagship life skills pro-gram, Passport to Success, to secondary schools and vocational schools, as well as local orphanages. The program’s partner, Center Interbilim, adapted and translated the PTS curriculum to Russian and Kyrgyz, and then conducted a Trainer of Trainers session. Another local NGO partner, Childhood Institute, adapted the curriculum to specifically address the needs of orphans, with a focus on integrating orphans into the local community. To date, 475 youth have participated in the program. Updates and photos can be found on Jasa.kg’s Face-book page www.facebook.com/jasa.kg.
Tanzania Youth ScholarsTanzania Youth Scholars (TYS) is a five-year US$3.6 million Youth:Work Associate Award that seeks to equip 1,800 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) with educational scholarships and livelihood opportunities to help them reach their full potential. For more information on the pro-gram, please visit www.iyfnet.org/tys.
Over the last six months, TYS distributed scholar-ships to 640 OVC to attend secondary school or vocational training through three local partner organizations. Camfed awarded secondary school scholarships to young girls from vulnerable back-grounds in the districts of Kilolo, Iringa, and Rufiji. The Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA), has identified over 400 OVC who will be awarded scholarships to attend long-term voca-tional training as well as short courses at VETA training centers in five districts across Tanzania.
In the districts of Songea and Mbeya, KIWOHEDE is training youth at formal training centers and with local master craftsmen, in life skills, entre-preneurship, and trade skills in fields such as auto mechanics, tailoring, and electrical installation. A 22-year-old female participant in Songea describes what she gained from the training: “I have learned how to bake cakes, sew, and to understand myself better as a young woman. Before, I did not know how to use a sewing machine but now I’m able to make my own clothes and sell some of clothing to my fellow villagers.”
In March, IYF received a grant from World Learning/USAID to integrate IYF’s Planning for
Life—a youth reproductive health and family plan-ning program—into the TYS program framework. For more information on the program, please visit www.iyfnet.org/planning-for-life. IYF worked with local implementing partners and youth experts to adapt the global reproductive health curriculum Reproductive Health Lessons: A Supplemental Cur-riculum for Young People for use in Tanzania—and more specifically to benefit the TYS beneficiaries. This summer, IYF trained facilitators and staff on the curriculum and TYS partners began training youth soon thereafter.
Youth Entrepreneurship DevelopmentLaunched in September 2010, Youth Entrepre-neurship Development (YED) is a four-year US$15 million program created to improve employability and entrepreneurship opportunities for young Palestinians and support the Palestinian National Youth Strategy 2011-2013. For more information, please visit www.iyfnet.org/news/1857.
In February 2012, YED awarded new grants to fund youth employability and/or entrepreneur-ship development activities implemented by four Palestinian youth-serving institutions: Leaders Organization, Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine Information and Communications Tech nology Incubator, and Sharek Youth Forum. Through these grants, YED’s partners have provided employability and entrepreneurship training to nearly 300 youth throughout the West Bank this year.
YED also hosted events to strengthen the capacity of Palestinian youth-serving institutions, including a workshop on integrating Best Practices in Program Design, as well as Consensus Dialogues to establish common definitions of key terms in employability, entrepreneurship, and service learning programs. IYF also partnered with Silatech, a Qatar-based organization, to provide their Tamheed Career Guidance training to YED’s partner organizations.
In a post-participation survey, beneficiaries in the 2011 Rapid Grants programs expressed apprecia-tion for the YED training and its impact on building their employability skills. According to Nour, a 26-year-old young woman who found a job through Sharek’s “Start Work” program: “[T]his training program was a great opportunity to develop my skills and abilities and the education I got in the uni-versity. Sharek held a job fair for recent graduates where I was interviewed by Reach Company as a
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Samat Turusbek, a 17-year-old PTS participant [hand raised], talks about how he benefited from the class. “With the help of PTS, I learned to solve my problems, to find solutions in conflict situations, to listen and to hear people. Before the program, I used to solve my problems and conflicts with the help of physical force. After the lessons I learned to do it without the use of physical force. These PTS lessons helped me so much.”
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customer care employee. I have worked for them for 3 months and I am really happy in my work. I also encourage all students to participate in the training programs in order to develop their skills, especially communication skills.”
YouthMapYouthMap is a four-year US$10 million program to assess youth circumstances and the capacity of youth-serving agencies, and support innovative youth development programs in up to eight coun-tries in Sub-Saharan Africa. For more information on YouthMap, please visit www.iyfnet.org/youthmap.
YouthMap completed its third assessment in Mozambique in collaboration with a local research firm, EUROSIS, in April 2012. The assessment team included international and local researchers, as well as youth. Over 500 young people (ages 15 to 24) across eight locations provided input and recommendations. YouthMap also interviewed over 100 key informants from public, private, civil society, and donor organizations. The Mozam-bique assessment report will be available in both English and Portuguese in September 2012. For information on YouthMap’s previously published Senegal and Uganda assessment reports, please visit www.iyfnet.org/youthmap-senegal and www.iyfnet.org/youthmap-uganda.
The YouthMap Innovation Fund (YMIF) supports projects that directly respond to the assessment
findings, as well as the priorities of USAID Mis-sions. In northern Senegal, YMIF is in the process of designing an agriculture-focused youth employ-ability and entrepreneurship program. In Uganda, YMIF is supporting an internship program that will provide 100 graduates of higher learning (ages 23 to 30) with skills training, internship opportunities and job placement—preparing them to work, lead and contribute to Uganda’s development efforts. The YMIF programs in Mozambique will build on the assessment findings, as well as potential partner-ship opportunities identified during the assessment.
YouthMap is currently working with USAID to conduct its fourth assessment in Tanzania in November 2012.
Youth:Work JordanYouth:Work Jordan (YWJ) is a five-year, $US15 million initiative that seeks to improve the life and job prospects of highly vulnerable youth in partner-ship with USAID, the Government of Jordan, and well-respected national and local organizations. For more information on the program, please visit www.youthworkjordan.org.
In February, in order to share best practices and build regional momentum for improved youth employability practices, models and programs, YWJ hosted a highly successful regional Youth@Work Partnership conference in Amman. Approximately
400 people attended, including Queen Rania Al Abdullah and several ministry representatives. Several national public-private partnership initia-tives under YWJ were announced, including the development of a national network of career centers in partnership with Al Quds College and the “2000 hospitality jobs” initiative in partnership with the Jordan Tourism Board, Ammoun College and the Ministry of Tourism.
Recently, YWJ completed the pilot phase of the I SERVE curriculum, which is an advanced civic engagement course for youth who have received IYF’s PTS life skills training. The I SERVE cur-riculum trains highly vulnerable youth in leadership and project management, and then guides them through developing a community service project. To date, 21 community youth projects are either completed or underway.
In addition, YWJ is developing a more structured approach to engage and empower parents and other caring adults to support positive youth develop-ment programs in their communities. To support this goal, YWJ launched a successful two-day train-ing workshop designed to introduce parents of YWJ beneficiaries to IYF’s life skills training pro-gram and to underscore the importance of adolescent health and well-being. Over 300 parents participated in the event.
Youth:Work MexicoLaunched in 2010, Youth:Work Mexico (YWM) is a three-year US$3 million initiative in Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana to help at-risk youth stay in school, create safe spaces, strengthen and expand after-school and summer programs, and provide youth with entrepreneurship training opportuni-ties. For more information on the YWM program, please visit www.iyfnet.org/youth-work-mexico.
To date, over 7,500 youth in Ciudad Juárez have benefitted from YWM program activities, such as summer camps, after-school programs and commu-nity building workshops. Of these, 429 young people have graduated from a seven-week training workshop as part of an employability initiative implemented in community centers situated in vulnerable or margin-alized “colonias” throughout the city. The training, certified by the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez, combines life skills training with career plan-ning, employment counseling and job placement services. Some 70% of graduates from the first two
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YouthMap Research Assistant conducts a youth survey with a focus group discussion participant in Maputo, Mozambique.
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cohorts were either hired as paid employees or interns, placed in an entrepreneurship support pro-gram, re-enrolled in school or enrolled in vocational training post graduation.
Starting in June 2012, YWM expanded its activities into Tijuana through an employability initiative tailored to meet the particular needs of local youth. YWM’s implementing partner, Fundación Interna-cional de la Comunidad, recruited 64 youth from marginalized communities to participate in the first round of training. The program combines life skills and employability training with technical training options that are in demand in Tijuana‘s business community.
Youth:Work MozambiqueYouth:Work Mozambique (Y:W Moz) is a three-year US$1.2 million initiative to improve the economic livelihood opportunities for the coun-try’s highly vulnerable in- and out- of school youth. The program, which was kicked off in January 2012 in Pemba, provides employment and entrepreneur-ship opportunities for orphans and vulnerable youth (OVC) who are also receiving anti-retroviral treatment (and their families). For more informa-tion, please visit www.iyfnet.org/program/2394.
The Y:W Moz team has since reached out to the public, private and civil society/NGO sectors in Maputo and Pemba. With the private sector
expressing interest in collaborating with the pro-gram, Y:W Moz will work to bring these entities on board and establish a new cross-sector approach that is collaborative, effective and maximizes resources.
A labor market assessment of the country high-lighted a shift in the economic environment with the expansion of the oil and gas sectors, resulting in significant employment opportunities in each sec-tor as well as ancillary service sectors. Private sector representatives noted that while they have demands for a skilled entry-level labor force, they lack quali-fied workers who possess the basic education and necessary technical and life skills to perform their duties successfully. Y:W Moz is exploring opportu-nities in all three sectors and will form partnerships with the business community to enhance efforts to place trained youth in paid jobs upon graduation from the program.
Zimbabwe:WorksOn September 3, 2012 Zimbabwe:Works (Z:W)—IYF’s first project in that country—opened its new offices in Harare. An 18-month US$4.6 million USAID-funded project, Z:W will build job skills and improve the employment and self-employment prospects for Zimbabweans, offering job-related, life skills, and entrepreneurship training as well
as promoting and facilitating civic engagement activities.
The first step in this program launch was a three-week Labor Market Rapid Appraisal, initiated in September, that provides an overall context for the design of specific interventions on the ground. At the same time, the Z:W Grants Manager and Technical Specialists have begun meeting with international and local NGOs working on employ-ment, training and entrepreneurship activities to identify potential partners to implement the inter-ventions, which will commence in January 2013.
6This project was made possible by the generous support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Cooperative Agreement #EPP-A-00-08-00006-00.
USAID Mission Director Beth Paige meets with youth and tours Youth:Work Jordan activities during her site visit to the city of Mafraq.
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“We also learned [at the GPM
conference] that we are not
alone in our struggles, that
others are facing similar and
sometimes unique challenges
around the world, and that
we can learn from their best
practices and innovations to
solve problems.” — Dr. Jackie Bird, Co-Director of RISE St. Lucia