2024

“Supporting Youth Employment Through Creative, Heritage and Culture” project in Yemen aims to help alleviating conflict effects on young people working in these creative sectors. With so many challenges due to ongoing conflict, a lack of support and training opportunities is observed leading to an increase of youth unemployment and unqualified institutions. At the same time, Yemen’s rich cultural heritage is being neglected, making efforts harder for those trying to preserve and promote it.

The project, funded by EU and implemented by SMEPS in partnership with UNESCO, mainly aims to support youth employment through supporting CSOs and young individuals working in creative industries of the heritage and culture sector through technical and financial support.  This will affect positively in strengthening CSOs' internal management capabilities resulting in integrating more youth working in the field and creating a better nurturing environment for them. Such a methodology will enable job creation, trainings, and networking opportunities for youth engaged in creative work leading to establishing their own project and generating sustainable income sources, especially for those living in urban areas, to improve their livelihood. 

Through promoting youth employment, specifically in the creative, heritage, and culture sectors, SMEPS drives transformative change in addressing the immediate and long-term challenges of unemployment. It also treats the gaps caused in the institutional setting due to such loss. It equally contributes to reviving Yemen’s cultural heritage and the recovery of its economy. 

• Targeted Governorates:

Aden, Hadramout, Taiz, and Socotra

• Sectors:

MSMEs, Private Sector, and CSOs.

• Planned Beneficiaries to Target: 

39 CSOs.

• Donor:

UNESCO.

• Project Value:

$ 121,994.99