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Programmatic Components. Component 1: Expanded Capacity of Youth-serving Institutions 10 Component 2: Enhanced Employment and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component Three: Increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training 26 Cross-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ Arab-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan for Year Four of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. The YED program was originally designed around three primary program components: expanded capacity of youth-serving organizations, enhanced employment and entrepreneurship education for Palestinian youth, and increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training opportunities. However, starting in the fourth year of implementation, YED will build on lessons learned through the first three years of implementation,1 and on the outcomes of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 and will focus on developing programs that serve three main strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen the capacity of career guidance units at local universities to enable them to carry out credible career guidance and counseling support for students and alumni. Objective 2: Expand career guidance services to secondary school students through School to Career in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). Objective 3: Support service provision to marginalized and rural communities, including meeting the employability needs of rural women.

Programmatic Components. Component 1Through the first two years of implementation, the YED team has identified a number of key lessons learned that have influenced the program’s implementation strategy. These include the following: Expanded  Effective and quality stakeholder engagement in general, and private sector engagement in particular, is a labor intensive process that requires patience and persistence without always providing direct and visible results, although it does prove to validate and build local ownership of projects.  Capacity of Youth-serving Institutions 10 Component 2: Enhanced Employment strengthening for partner XXXx is more effective when workshops are supplemented with tailored coaching and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component Three: Increased access opportunities for YSI partners to apply the concepts taught in the group training sessions.  Sustainable gains in strengthening partners’ capacities are hampered by high turnover rates within the YSIs. IYF will work to try to engage governing boards and senior staff to xxxxxx support for CSP participation and will encourage trainees to share the CSP materials and resources with other staff within their organization to support sustainable development.  YSIs need materials and curricula to provide quality training for youth in employability, entrepreneurship, service learning, and life skills.  Service learning as a tool to practical onbuild youth employability and entrepreneurship skills is not a well-thedeveloped concept in Palestine and requires significant investment to pilot projects and identify best practices and lessons learned to develop it.  Experiential learning opportunities such as internships, youth-led community service initiatives, and new business incubation require extensive development and support from strategic partnerships to ensure participants achieve the maximum benefit.  Ongoing economic challenges on a national level increase unemployment in general and among youth in particular, reduce the number of job training 26 Crossand internship opportunities available to YED beneficiaries, as well as the ability of private sector companies to provide leverage contributions to YSI partners’ projects. At the end of Year Two, XXX organized a meeting with 17 individuals representing NGOs, universities, private sector companies, USAID implementing partners, and USAID representatives. At this meeting, XXX shared an initial implementation plan for FY 2013 and gathered feedback from the various stakeholders, to refine the work plan and to explore other areas of intervention that YED might consider in the future. Their feedback included the following observations and recommendations:  XXX is a real partner, adds value through implemented interventions, being responsive to YSIs needs, and introducing many new tools to the practice. Working with XXX helped the YSIs to consider new horizons and IYF should continue to support the work of the YSIs by providing materials and funding for activities.  Participants acknowledged the importance of Xxxxxxx and requested increasing the number of trained advisors and NGOs.  Importance of life skills and social entrepreneurship trainings were stressed.  Start career guidance, trainings, and internships at much earlier stages with school and university students. Internships in the governmental sector are encouraged but should be exempted from their share as they do not have the budget for interns.  Encourage the youth to identify good opportunities to create new companies involve mentors from the private sector.  Private sector engagement should be about more than corporate social responsibility; the focus should also be on the commercialization and calculation of returned benefits on the private sector. IYF can utilize other resources from the privates sector – not only financial. Institutionalizing the relationship with the private sector should be seen as a key component of YSIs’ development.  XXXx requested more cooperation amongst themselves in developing proposals.  Focus on results: the return on investment in development projects should be greater than the national employment rate.  Focus on skills development: youth who are well-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme prepared to join the job market are more likely to be recruited by the private sector. YSIs should serve the private sector’s needs by providing quality employees.  Focus on YSIs’ sustainability: support YSIs with long-term core funding. The duration of projects usually is short and allows very limited time for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ Arab-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Communitymeasuring long term impact.  Expand work with universities to improve the quality of education products. Life skills and career counseling should be integrated in the students’ curricula.  Universities should focus on specialties with more value added. Explore opportunities to establish partnerships between universities and the private sector to develop curricula that supports the needs of the labor market.  Consider supporting advocacy campaigns to motivate students and prepare them for the job market, and to address the fear of failure in new business creation.  In light of the changing circumstances in the country, partners requested the program be more responsive to emerging street and youth needs.  The program should work with YSIs to facilitate funding with fewer requirements.  USAID should be able to provide a timeframe for receiving vetting results for better planning purposes. Beneficiaries are sensitive about USAID funding, and USAID is advised to work on improving their image. Thus, during Year Three, XXX will build on accomplishments and lessons learned from the first two years of implementation and the above mentioned feedback from key stakeholders to undertake the following activities under each YED component:  Under Component One, YED plans to complete workshop-based Organization CDCE-training for CSP II partners which started in Year Two, explore the potential for CSP III, and continue to support the development of CSP I Community Development partners implementing grants, as well as providing ongoing experiential learning opportunities for CSP I partners not implementing grants. IYF will also continue to develop strategic partnerships to leverage current investments.  Under Component Two, YED plans to award a series of new grants to support YSI partners to provide employability, entrepreneurship, service learning, and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan for Year Four of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. The YED program was originally designed around three primary program components: expanded capacity of youth-serving organizations, enhanced employment and entrepreneurship education life skills training for Palestinian youth, and increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training opportunities. However, starting in the fourth year In support of implementationthis training, YED will build on lessons learned through also explore the first three years utility of implementation,1 providing YSIs access to a variety of curricula and on training materials. Additionally, YED will work to expand and enhance the outcomes of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 quality and will focus on developing programs that serve three main strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen the capacity availability of career guidance units at local universities services for youth.  Under Component Three YED plans to enable them to carry out credible career guidance facilitate applied learning opportunities, including internships, youth-led community service initiatives, and counseling support for students and alumniyoung entrepreneurs, as implemented by YED’s current YSI partners in complement to the training provided under Component Two. Additional details of planned activities under each Program Component are provided in the sections that follow. Objective 2: Expand career guidance services to secondary school students through School to Career in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). Objective 3: Support service provision to marginalized and rural communities, including meeting the employability needs of rural women.

Programmatic Components. Component 1: Expanded Capacity of Youth-serving Institutions 10 Organizations 11 Component 2: Enhanced Employment and Entrepreneurship Education 15 20 Component Three: Increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training 26 27 Cross-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme for Development 33 AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ ArabAOTR Agreement Officer’s Technical Representative ATC Anti-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU Terrorism Certification COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International EDC Education Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year Center EOI Expression of Interest FOG Fixed Obligation Xxxxx Xxx-MIS Geographic Management Information System GIZ German Society for International Cooperation HQ Headquarters IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University POs Program Officers PTS Passport to Success RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers STA Senior Technical Advisor TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training U.S. United States UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork USG United States Government YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan Revised Year Two Work Plan for Year Four of the USAID-funded Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the planned implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between during the period from October 1, 2013 and 2011 to September 30, 20142012. The YED team submitted an earlier version of this work plan to USAID in July 2011, but funding issues delayed the approval of this document and it was revised in January 2012 to reflect the reduced funding level available for FY2012. YED’s primary objective is to contribute to addressing the employability and entrepreneurship needs of Palestinian youth through strengthening the institutions that serve them. The main distinguishing feature of the YED program’s approach to youth development is a holistic, integrated, and consensus-building method to achieving the project’s main objectives. This approach views all of XXX’s work over the lifecycle of the four-year program as a collaborative capacity-strengthening effort designed to help targeted YSIs deliver high quality, scalable employability and entrepreneurship services to Palestinian youth who are between 14-29 years of age, focusing especially on marginalized youth. In accordance with this approach, YED’s grants and related technical support are seen as practical, hands-on capacity development for partner YSIs; they are not an end unto themselves. During the first year of implementation, the YED program achieved the following benchmarks in strengthening the capacity of Palestinian Youth-serving Institutions (YSIs): • Awarded pilot grants to three YSIs to implement activities that trained more than 1,100 youth, supported 34 participants to find jobs, 24 to find internships and 6 youth to start their own business; • Successfully completed the first round of the Capacity Strengthening Process (CSP I), strengthening the capacity of 23 individuals from 11 YSIs; • Provided technical support and feedback to ten YSIs participating in CSP I to develop proposals for new projects to receive grant funding from YED. These applications are being reviewed for potential development into full grant applications; and • Issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) open solicitation, and selected up to nine potential new YSIs from the 33 responses received, to participate in the second round of CSP (CSP II). This Year Two Work Plan builds on these successes, expanding the program to provide substantial financial and technical support to partner YSIs in order to help Palestinian youth become more employable, start their own businesses, and/or become more effective in serving their communities, while also gaining tangible employability or entrepreneurship skills. However, it is important to note that YED’s implementation during FY12 is undertaken in a context of reduced and uncertain funding; fewer staff hours and reduced staffing available to support project activities; delays due to vetting requirements; and without an approved implementation plan for the first quarter. These challenges limit YED’s ability to reach its previously-set annual targets and force the program to make hard decisions about the number and type of YSI partners that YED will work with during the year. The YED team will work in close consultation with USAID to maximize the utility of available resources and produce tangible results that contribute to USAID’s priority areas within youth development. In Year Two, YED plans to award four full capacity grants for approximately $500,000 in total value. This is a significant reduction from the 14 grants, totaling $3.8 million, which were originally planned for this period. The organizations considered for potential awards include CSP I partners that responded to the EOI with a quality proposal. The YED program was originally designed around three primary program components: expanded capacity also plans to award fixed-obligation grants (FOGs) to provide support for several YSIs to participate in CSP II. A summary of youthplanned grants for Year Two is illustrated in Table 4 under Component Two. In Year One, the YED team engaged in wide-serving organizationsranging dialogue with representatives of the private sector, enhanced employment and entrepreneurship education for Palestinian youthpublic sector, and increased access for other active NGOs, as well as USAID and its implementing partners, and other donors, to gather inputs and perspectives that informed further development and refinement of the YED program’s implementation strategy. In Year Two and throughout the program lifecycle, the Chief of Party (CoP) will continue to lead the team’s efforts to reach out to and consult with these groups, to seek feedback, cooperation, and/or leverage contributions from them. YED will also continue to support USAID in its efforts to develop and implement its forthcoming youth to practical onstrategy. Furthermore, in Year One, XXX succeeded in engaging representatives of the private and public sector, as well as YSIs that are not direct beneficiaries of the program, in a constructive and mutually-the-job training opportunitiesbeneficial manner. HoweverCompanies such as PADICO Holding, starting in Wataniya Mobile, Xxxxxx Group, and Paltel Telecommunications, as well as YSIs such as Welfare Association, have been regularly engaged through individual meetings and consensus dialogues, providing useful inputs and establishing the fourth year YED program’s model of implementationcollaboration. Throughout the program lifecycle, YED will continue to build upon these relationships in order to facilitate lasting partnerships that lead to leverage contributions and sustainable interventions. The June 2011 annual planning meeting held in Bethlehem convened an even broader stakeholder group, including private sector representatives, international NGOs, Palestinian YSIs and USAID, to discuss strategies and opportunities for the YED program. This work plan is a direct result of this active and wide engagement, as well as learning gleaned through YED’s experience implementing program activities in the past year. Overall, the YED team’s capacity strengthening and technical assistance efforts aim to help partner XXXx deliver quality, sustainable services to youth during and beyond YED’s lifetime. YED’s Program Officers (POs) will build on lessons learned through experiences from Year One to continue to coach partner XXXx to improve their ability to develop and implement grant activities that respond to the YED Standards of Excellence that were agreed upon with partners in Year One (see Xxxxx A for a copy of these Standards of Excellence). In order to support YSI partners’ capacity to evaluate more effectively their success in reaching USAID-mandated objectives and assure quality program implementation, the YED M&E team will fully implement a comprehensive results monitoring program during FY2012. This will include fine-tuning and implementing a monitoring and evaluation system designed to provide quantitative and qualitative data on project successes, and to prepare information for the mid- term evaluation, which is planned for the first three years quarter of implementation,1 Year Three. Over the course of Year Two, the YED team will also continue to support a comprehensive communications program in order to increase transparency, understanding, and on appreciation of USAID’ efforts among key audiences, as well as to enhance the outcomes capacity of partner XXXx to better communicate their goals, objectives, and results. Finally, YED will continue to monitor and review its staffing and management structure, and ability to operate under adverse conditions. This will include: review of staffing needs, careful monitoring of the budget, strengthened controls and adherence to cooperative agreement requirements, and planning meetings to improve coordination among our team members to provide support for the partner YSIs and the critical role they play in serving Palestinian youth. The following table summarizes YED’s program goal, objectives, intermediate results, and activities. Table 1: Summary of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 Program Goal, Objectives, Intermediate Results, and will focus on developing programs that serve three main strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen the capacity of career guidance units at local universities to enable them to carry out credible career guidance and counseling support for students and alumni. Objective 2: Expand career guidance services to secondary school students through School to Career in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). Objective 3: Support service provision to marginalized and rural communities, including meeting the employability needs of rural women.Activities

Programmatic Components. Component 1: Expanded Capacity of YouthThe USAID-serving commissioned Youth Assessment for the West Bank and Gaza, together with XXX’s initial dialogues with stakeholders, provide clear evidence that young Palestinians would benefit greatly from opportunities with Youth Serving Institutions 10 Component 2: Enhanced Employment that can help them achieve their full potential. IYF has accordingly grounded program design on proven approaches and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component Three: Increased access for youth models to practical on-the-job training 26 Cross-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ Arab-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development help these institutions best support young Palestinians in attaining the technical and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship behavioral skills they need to acquire decent jobs and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan for Year Four of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the implementation strategies planned secure productive livelihoods. In presenting programmatic activities to be undertaken in Year One, it is important to note the clear linkages between October 1each of YED’s three program component areas. Such linkages in turn help drive highly complementary and integrated activities under each of these components in this Work Plan. In summary, 2013 activities under each YED Component area will be focused as follows:  Under Component One of the program, YED will place strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement and September 30capacity building which leads YSI to improve and expand their capacity to effectively engage and serve youth in employment, 2014entrepreneurship and civic engagement programs. Initial stakeholder engagement efforts through February will connect YED with potential partners – including those that are positioned to receive “quick-win” sub-grants – with such engagement designed to yield valuable information about continued gaps in youth programming and how to best guide capacity building activities under this component. Thereafter, capacity building will be participatory, practical, and results-oriented and will be greatly enhanced by the observation and analysis of “quick win” sub-grant activities. The culmination of efforts under Component One will position YSIs to develop well designed activities that successfully support youth and are eligible for YED subgrant funding. Furthermore, YSIs that are only interested in capacity strengthening and/or technical assistance will be provided with this support without having to receive sub-grants.  Building on these activities under Component One, Component Two of the program was originally designed around three will support direct training programs and other activities including sub-grants that enhance employment, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement skills among young people. Within year one, a primary program components: expanded capacity focus of youth-serving organizations, enhanced activities under this component will be to ensure appropriate processes for both grant making related to short term “quick win” pilot projects and longer term employment and entrepreneurship education programs are in place. We anticipate approximately 2-3 quick win subgrants will be identified for Palestinian youthYED support by February, and increased access that 10 longer term subgrants, which present strong program designs based on capacity building activities, will be developed by the end of September 2011.  Finally, building on the capacity building provided in Component 1, and the well designed programs provided with subgrants under Component 2, Component 3 aims at providing youth with opportunities to gain practical, hands-on experience in applying newly developed employability and entrepreneurship skills. As detailed in the last section below, under this component, XXX will initiate service learning activities through quick win and longer term subgrants which will help youth improve their communities, initiate new social enterprises, and build skills important for long term career success. Simultaneously, in concert with local partners, XXX will analyze current approaches and spur the development of subgrant supported initiatives in the areas of career counseling as well as internship promotion and entrepreneurship. Finally, under this component, XXX will also examine and deploy approaches to online engagement of youth to support practical on-the-job training opportunitieslearning and linkages to jobs. However, starting Additional detail on each activity under each Program Component is provided in the fourth year sections that follow. As noted above, Component One focuses on two primary activities. The first activity, a robust stakeholder engagement process, will help connect YED with potential partners, build excitement and local ownership for the program, and identify potential “quick win” activities for program support. It will also help in informing the contours of implementationour second activity under this Component, a highly participatory and practical series of capacity building activities with local YSIs that result in well designed, longer term programs eligible for YED will build on lessons learned through the first three years subgrant funding. Each of implementation,1 and on the outcomes of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 and will focus on developing programs that serve three main strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen the capacity of career guidance units at local universities to enable them to carry out credible career guidance and counseling support for students and alumnithese activities is explained in greater detail below. Objective 2: Expand career guidance services to secondary school students through School to Career in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). Objective 3: Support service provision to marginalized and rural communities, including meeting the employability needs of rural women.

Programmatic Components. During Year Two, XXX will build on Year One accomplishments and lessons learned; activities under each YED component will be focused as follows. • Under Component 1: Expanded Capacity One of Youththe program, capacity strengthening will be offered to a second group of YSIs and universities, allowing additional partners to expand their capacity to engage and serve youth in employment, entrepreneurship and service learning programs effectively. However, given the reduced funding level available for Year Two, CSP II will focus on YSIs that are most likely to contribute to achieving YED’s objectives. In addition, building on lessons learned from CSP I, the format of CSP II will place more emphasis on coaching and one-serving Institutions 10 Component 2: Enhanced Employment and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component Three: Increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training 26 Cross-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme one support tailored to each YSI’s particular area of focus within employment and entrepreneurship, in order to support development of targeted interventions that will produce strong outcomes to create an even more effective learning process for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ Arab-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan for Year Four of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014YSIs. The YED program was originally designed around three primary program components: expanded capacity of youthteam will also provide direct coaching and mentoring to the YSI partners implementing grant-serving organizationsfunded activities. Finally, enhanced employment and entrepreneurship education for Palestinian youthYED will continue outreach to stakeholders in an effort to establish new partnerships that can improve the quality, scale, and increased access for youth to practical onsustainability of grant-the-job training opportunitiesfunded activities through leverage contributions. However, starting in • Building on activities initiated during the fourth first year of implementation, Component Two will support new direct training programs and other activities for youth beneficiaries, including grants to fund activities that will enhance their employability and entrepreneurial skills. In Year Two, subject to available funding, we anticipate that the YED program will build on lessons learned work through several YSI partners that have completed CSP I to implement up to four new grant-funded activities. • Finally, Component Three will work to provide Palestinian youth with practical opportunities to apply their newly-developed employability and entrepreneurship skills. Under this component, XXX will support initiatives in the first three years of implementation,1 and on the outcomes of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 and will focus on developing programs that serve three main strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen the capacity areas of career guidance units at local universities counseling, internship promotion, and entrepreneurship that will be informed by targeted research initiatives designed to enable them to carry out credible career guidance and counseling support for students and alumni. Objective 2: Expand career guidance ensure such services to secondary school students through School to Career in collaboration with meet the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). Objective 3: Support service provision to marginalized and rural communities, including meeting the employability needs of rural womenboth youth and the private sector, and to facilitate the private sector’s full engagement and support. Additional details of planned activities under each Program Component are provided in the sections that follow.

Programmatic Components. Component COMPONENT 1: Expanded Capacity of YouthEXPANDED CAPACITY OF YOUTH-serving Institutions 10 Component SERVING ORGANIZATIONS 12 COMPONENT 2: Enhanced Employment and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component ThreeENHANCED EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 20 COMPONENT THREE: Increased access for youth to practical onINCREASED ACCESS FOR YOUTH TO PRACTICAL ON-theTHE-job training 26 CrossJOB TRAINING 32 CROSS-cutting Activities 31 CUTTING ACTIVITIES 39 LIST OF ACRONYMS AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ ArabATC Anti-American University Jenin Terrorism Certification BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development and Continuing Education Institute CGI Clinton Global Initiative CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union DCA Dual-Client Assessment EOI Expression of Interest FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation ICI Investment Climate Improvement project IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE MOE Ministry of Education and Higher Education MOU Memorandum of Understanding NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University PTS Passport to Success RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical SL Service Learning SME Small and Vocational Education Medium Enterprise StC Save the Children STEP Support for Services and Training for Employment Participation - Xxxxxx UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork WA Welfare Association YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YES Youth Employment Services program – Welfare Association YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan for Year Four Three of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the planned implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between October 1, 2013 2012 and September 30, 20142013. YED’s primary objective is to address the employability and entrepreneurship needs of Palestinian youth by strengthening the institutions that serve them. The YED main distinguishing feature of YED’s approach to youth development is a holistic, integrated, and consensus-building method to achieve the program’s main objectives. This approach views all of XXX’s work over the lifecycle of the four-year program was originally as a collaborative capacity-strengthening effort designed around three primary program components: expanded to help targeted YSIs form strategic partnerships with the private sector and to deliver high quality, scalable employability, and entrepreneurship services to Palestinian youth between the ages of 14 and 29, focusing especially on marginalized youth. In accordance with this approach, YED’s grants and related technical support activities are seen as practical means to cultivate hands-on capacity of development for partner youth-serving organizations, enhanced employment and entrepreneurship education for Palestinian youth, and increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training opportunitiesinstitutions (YSIs). However, starting in During the fourth year first two years of implementation, the YED will build on lessons learned through program achieved the first three years following benchmarks:  Awarded seven full-capacity grants to Palestinian YSIs to implement employability, entrepreneurship, and service learning projects; thereby providing training to more than 1500 Palestinian youth between the ages of implementation,1 and on 15 and29.  Undertook the outcomes capacity strengthening process with twenty partner XXXx to support their integration of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 Standards of Excellence into their youth employability, entrepreneurship, and service learning projects.  Supported 49 youth to find employment, 31 to participate in internships, 21 to start new enterprises, and 120 to return to school; as well as facilitating job fair opportunities to 478 youth throughout the West Bank.  Organized a series of Consensus Building Dialogues between YSI partners and representatives of public and private sector organizations to discuss best practices in employability, entrepreneurship, and service learning programs in the Palestinian context.  Supported partner XXXx to develop strategic partnerships, which has resulted in more than $400,000 in cash and in-kind leverage for USAID’s YED funds.  Worked with YSI partners to strengthen their capacity to engage with private sector companies through consensus dialogues, training, coaching, and leverage. The following Year Three Work Plan builds on these successes and lessons learned and utilizes feedback gathered from a variety of stakeholders on how to develop more effective strategies to strengthen partner YSIs’ capacity, in order to: 1) help additional Palestinian youth become more employable; 2) support them in starting their own businesses; and/or 3) become more effective in serving their communities, while also gaining tangible employability or entrepreneurship skills. In Year Three, YED will focus continue the process initiated in Year Two to award up to five new grants to YSI partners, totaling up to USD $660,000 in funding and tentatively planned to fund two employability projects and three service learning projects (depending on developing programs the quality of projects proposed, YED may adjust the composition of these grants and/or allocate grants funding to other types of projects through a strategic funding pool that serve three main strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen would be used to respond to meaningful opportunities that would present themselves during the capacity implementation phase). These grants will be awarded out of career guidance units existing USAID funds obligated during FY 2012. In addition, at local universities the end of FY 2012, YED was awarded $440,000 in basic education-earmarked funds to enable them to carry out credible career guidance and counseling support for students and alumni. Objective 2: Expand career guidance services to secondary school students through implement the School to Career curriculum developed by Save the Children in collaboration cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Education. In Year Three, YED plans to award up to three additional grants for a total of $300,000 to YSI partners to implement the activities planned with these funds. If additional incremental funds are obligated in FY 2013, YED will consider awarding up to nine new grants, totaling up to $1.27 million in funding (MoEHEincluding an extension of the two best performing service learning grants). Objective 3: Support Based on YED’s targets and outputs to date, and activities planned with existing funds, YED would tentatively plan to use additional obligated funds to support up to three new employability projects, one new entrepreneurship project, and three new service provision learning (SL) projects. In addition, YED would consider extending two promising service learning initiatives that will be funded out of existing obligated funds, which would leverage the fairly significant investment in project start-up that is inherent in SL activities. In addition to marginalized grants-making, YED will work in Year Three to strengthen the capacity of YSI partners to implement YED’s Standards of Excellence in youth programs. In Year Two, XXX worked with ten YSI partners through the first round of YED’s capacity strengthening process (CSP I), which culminated in the award of the four current full-capacity grants. The YED team will continue to work in close collaboration with current grantees to support quality implementation of YED activities, as well as engaging CSP I partners not currently implementing grants, in the coming year. Additionally, YED started CSP with a second group of YSIs during FY 2012, and rural communitiesplans to complete the workshops and one-on-one support for the CSP II organizations in the coming year. All current partners (CSP I and II) will have opportunities to compete for the planned grants outlined above. In an effort to expand the scope and range of YSIs being served through YED, including meeting IYF issued an open solicitation at the end of FY 2012 to gauge the level of interest for a third round of CSP. The YED team will review all submissions and determine if there is sufficient demand; if so, initial stages of this work would start in the first quarter of FY 2013. Finally, YED will continue in Year Three to support current partners’ implementation of the four existing grants to provide employability needs and entrepreneurship training and experiential learning opportunities for Palestinian youth. This continuous support includes tailored coaching and support on technical, financial, reporting and sustainability planning, offering partners an opportunity to apply the principles learned in the CSP workshops and coaching sessions. The following table summarizes YED’s program goal, objectives, intermediate results, and activities. Based on regular consultations, XXX believes XXX’s goals continue to be valid and meaningful, especially given the high rates of rural womenunemployment among youth in Palestine. YED Program Goal To prepare young Palestinian men and women for the job market, and provide them with the skills they need to help find employment with the public or private sector or to start their own enterprises.

Programmatic Components. Component 1: Expanded Capacity of Youth-serving Institutions 10 Component 2: Enhanced Employment and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component Three: Increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training 26 Cross-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ Arab-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation IR Intermediate Result IYF International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development program YSI Youth-Serving Institution This work plan for Year Four of the Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. The YED program ’s performance management framework was originally designed around structured under three primary program Intermediate Results (IRs), each corresponding to one of YED’s three original project components: expanded capacity of youth-serving organizationsHowever, enhanced employment in line with the program’s mission, numerous discussions with USAID and entrepreneurship education for Palestinian youthpartners, and increased access for youth to practical on-the-job training opportunities. However, starting in the fourth year of implementation, YED will build building on lessons learned through from implementing the first three years of implementation,1 project and on the outcomes of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 and evaluation, YED will focus on the activities in its final year of implementation to ensure it contributes directly to the following main Objective: Through this objective, YED will fulfill its desired legacy of developing stronger and more capable university partners that are endowed with the skills needed to design and implement programs that serve three main empower Palestinian youth and build their skills through demand driven, industry-led training and other employability support services. As outlined below under each of the components, YED will achieve this objective by implementing a series of activities directly through its own team and through hiring external trainers or consults as needed. • Under Component 1, YED will provide targeted technical and program support up to five UCCs that will ultimately become capable of institutionalizing YED’s employability and entrepreneurship practices and programs within their strategic objectives: Objective 1: Strengthen plans. YED’s support will include helping them develop strategic partnerships with the capacity of career guidance units at local private sector to support their activities. • Under Component 2, YED will support up to five universities to enable them to carry out credible directly provide quality employability, entrepreneurship training, and career guidance and counseling support services for more than 900 of their students and alumni. Objective 2: Expand career guidance services . In support of these trainings, YED will provide university staff the needed training and access to secondary school students through School a variety of curricula and materials including Passport to Career Success®, BYB®, and I-Serve®, and will work in close collaboration with universities to monitor the Ministry quality of Education the training provided and Higher Education (MoEHE)their adherence to planned implementation schedules. Objective • Under Component 3: Support service provision , YED will support the partner UCCs to marginalized and rural communitiesfacilitate applied learning opportunities, including meeting internships and job fairs, and support for young entrepreneurs to complement the training provided under Component 2. In Year Six, YED will continue to view sustainability and scalability as its two main guiding principles in fulfilling its legacy. YED will focus its efforts and limited resources available to support UCCs to become better equipped to design and implement quality and scalable programs that Palestinian youth need to build their skills through demand driven, industry-led training and other employability needs and entrepreneurship support services detailed in the following sections. In support of rural womenits objective, YED will continue to facilitate networking between universities and key stakeholder groups, most notably the private sector to support their activities. It is worth noting that XXX has selected the five university partners from the total of nine that the project supported previously based on their active engagement in the program including timely submission of career center strategic plans, their commitment to further strengthen their UCCs as demonstrated by allocating resources and dedicating personnel time to staff these centers, and limited resources available to YED during the upcoming year. Based on these factors, YED will give priority to support UCCs at the following universities: 1. Arab-American University – Jenin (AAUJ) 2. Bethlehem University (BU) 3. Palestine Ahliya University College (PAUC) 4. Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) 5. Palestine Technical University - Khadoory (PTUK) The following sections of the Year Six work plan provide additional details on YED’s planned activities corresponding to each of the three component areas mentioned above. ACTIVITY ONE: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT One of the key lessons learned during the past five years of implementation is that effective and quality stakeholder engagement is a labor-intensive process requiring patience and persistence that directly contributes towards facilitating access to quality employability services in a sustainable and scalable manner. YED’s experience to date has confirmed the ongoing need for investment in this type of support; thus, IYF will continue to promote the development of strategic partnerships with up to five UCCs through facilitating linkages with a wider spectrum of sectors including Palestinian private sector companies, public sector institutions, NGOs, Xxxxxxxx of Commerce, and donors such as DFID, Belgium Technical Cooperation, the GIZ, Microsoft Foundation, and other USAID funded projects with complementary activities. Cooperation. In addition, YED will explore opportunities to share resources and increase coordination between donor-supported programs.

Programmatic Components. Component COMPONENT 1: Expanded Capacity of YouthEXPANDED CAPACITY OF YOUTH-serving Institutions 10 Component SERVING ORGANIZATIONS 11 COMPONENT 2: Enhanced Employment and Entrepreneurship Education 15 Component ThreeENHANCED EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 25 COMPONENT THREE: Increased access for youth to practical onINCREASED ACCESS FOR YOUTH TO PRACTICAL ON-theTHE-job training 26 CrossJOB TRAINING 27 CROSS-cutting Activities 31 AGFUND Arab Gulf Programme for Development AIP Annual Implementation Plan AAUJ Arab-American University Jenin BYB Build Your Business curriculum CBO Community-based Organization CDCE-I Community Development and Continuing Education Institute CECD Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development – PPU COP Chief of Party CSP Capacity Strengthening Process DfID Department for International Development - UK EU European Union FY Fiscal Year GIZ German Society for International Cooperation IR Intermediate Result IYF CUTTING ACTIVITIES 32 The International Youth Foundation M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MENA Middle East and North Africa MOEHE Ministry of Education and Higher Education NGO Non-Governmental Organization PA Palestinian Authority PAUC Palestine Ahliya University College PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PICTI Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator PPU Palestine Polytechnic University RFA Request for Applications TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training UNDP United Nations Development Program USAID (IYF) is excited about the opportunity to partner with the United States Agency for International Development USD U.S. Dollar YAN YouthActionNetwork YDRC Youth Development Resource Center YED Youth Entrepreneurship Development (USAID) to design and lead the implementation of a holistic youth development program YSI Youthto support and strengthen youth employability and entrepreneurship programs in West Bank and Gaza. In implementing this four-Serving Institution This year, $15 million cooperative agreement, IYF will work plan for Year Four of closely with USAID and relevant counterparts across the public, private and civil society sectors as well as key donors to address workforce and livelihoods challenges faced by Palestinian youth. The Youth Entrepreneurship Development (YED) program outlines the implementation strategies planned to be undertaken between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. The YED program was originally designed around will achieve its objectives by focusing on three primary program key components: expanded capacity of youth- Component 1: Capacity building to youth serving organizations, enhanced institutions  Component 2: Supporting employment and entrepreneurship entrepreneurial education for Palestinian youth, and increased access for youth to practical  Component 3: Provision of on-the-job training opportunitiesThis Year One Work Plan for the YED program provides an overview of program activities that will serve as the foundation for overall program success. However, starting As noted in the fourth year USAID program description and XXX’s approved proposal, at the heart of implementationyear-one activities will be a robust stakeholder engagement and validation process – including young people, the private sector, government partners, key donor agencies, other relevant USAID implementers, local NGOs, and community-based organizations. This wide ranging engagement of project partners will help xxxxxx local ownership of the program and engage these partners to support long term improvements in Youth Serving Institutions (YSI) and the quality of the youth programs they undertake. This stakeholder engagement process will help the YED team in designing a series of capacity building activities with YSI to help them conceptualize, design and implement youth employability, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement activities that are both effective and sustainable. Such capacity building will build on lessons learned be highly practical in nature, supporting participating institutions as they “learn by doing”. This learning will start as partners use refined programming strategies and tools introduced through the first three years of implementation,1 and on the outcomes of YED’s midterm evaluation,2 and will focus on developing IYF capacity building activities to design new youth programs that serve three main strategic objectivesin YED thematic areas. Areas for capacity building support include: Objective (1: Strengthen ) Successful approaches to job training and placement including assessing labor market demand and youth capabilities, developing integrated job training packages meeting minimum standards including in areas such as life skills, English skills and technical skills, as well career counseling, internship program design and job placement; (2) Effective entrepreneurship program design including assessments of entrepreneurial aptitude, business plan development, accessing financing, and coaching and mentoring of new businesses, and (3) Youth civic engagement models and approaches that support youth in identifying community needs, designing projects to address these needs, and supporting leadership and other skills for long term viability of youth-led projects and improved employment capabilities of participating youth. In turn, as participating institutions demonstrate strong capacity to implement newly designed programs in each of these areas, they will become eligible for YED sub-grants to execute upon their plans. IYF is also cognizant of the fact that many YSIs particularly the universities and colleges are interested in the capacity strengthening component of career guidance units at local universities to the YED program although they may not be as interested in receiving grants from the YED program. To address their specific needs and concerns, the YED team will also support these organizations and enable them to carry out credible career guidance design and counseling implement future employability and entrepreneurship programs with their own leveraged resources. Once these programs are launched, YED capacity building efforts will continue in xxxxxxx, supporting program partners by helping them ensure interventions maintain high quality standards, are positioned for expansion through leverage partners, and are well positioned for long term sustainability. Simultaneously, as a part of initial outreach activities to be undertaken through February, IYF will identify two to three pilot project opportunities that can be supported by YED and can be rapidly deployed through a flexible grant or contract mechanism. Such activities would be designed to both demonstrate the early success of YED in improving the livelihoods of young people and to support capacity building efforts in a highly practical way. In this respect, while building momentum around the program and showing what is possible through a new partnership focused approach, these “quick win” pilot programs will allow the YSIs that are engaged in capacity building trainings to observe, analyze, and learn from real activities in line with YED program objectives. Overall, activities undertaken by program partners will help young people transition into productive work—whether in the private sector, public sector, or in new start-up enterprises. Job trainings, placement and entrepreneurship programs will be designed as a result of discussions, consensus, feedback and coaching. They will simultaneously be guided by IYF minimum standards in each of these areas, customized to the specific needs of Palestinian youth and the contours of the Palestinian labor market. Included in job preparation activities will also be a series of civic engagement initiatives that allow young people to learn and employ practical skills that will help them be successful in the workplace, such as project planning, financial management, and team work, all while improving their local surroundings. Youth will be featured prominently in all activities as active participants in their own development, and YED supported programs will also use innovative technology platforms that help fully engage targeted youth. In presenting this Work Plan, it should also be noted that as of the submission date, XXX has accomplished several significant milestones articulated below that will be built upon in year one activities. These include the following:  All three key personnel – Chief of Party, Senior Technical Manager, and Senior Manager for students Sub-Grants Administration – along with the local IYF Finance Officer have been hired. XXX has also started a competitive recruitment process for all remaining staffing positions to bring our program up to full implementation capacity.  In early November, XXX submitted an initial three-month summary work plan covering the period of October 1 – December 31, 2010 to provide USAID with an overview of our major priorities during the first 12 weeks of the program. This Work Plan builds on the initial activities outlined in that overview.  As part of the initial stakeholder consultation process, IYF has met with approximately 20 YSI operating in and alumniaround Ramallah and Jerusalem, including Ruwwad and YDRC staff. XXX has also met with most of the relevant USAID technical offices to explore program synergies, including the Democracy & Governance, Private Enterprise, and Health offices.  IYF has had post-launch orientation meetings with USAID to learn more about important approvals, compliance issues, VAT, reporting requirements, vetting, and other significant aspects of operating a USAID program in the West Bank and Gaza.  IYF has initiated the process for registration with the Palestinian Authority, leased office space and initiated renovations to ensure it is fully functional for our needs.  XXX submitted the YED M&E plan on November 30, 2010 which provides specific indicators, units of measurement and targets to assess progress toward overall program objectives.  Finally, and as reflected in this Year One Work Plan, IYF has significantly benefited from broad consultation with the program’s AOTR and Education office to discuss program objectives, best align the design of activities with the Mission’s strategic interests, and otherwise position the program for success. Building on this progress, the following sections of the Work Plan help detail specific activities in each of the following areas from the period October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011: I. Section I provides a brief overview of program outcomes and objectives as outlined in the program’s Results Framework. Objective 2II. Section II outlines specific operational assumptions that have been made in the formulation of this Work Plan that will be important factors in program success. III. Section III describes the specific activities and milestones related to the operational start up of the program in this first year. IV. Section IV describes the specific activities and milestones, divided by the program’s three components, in the first year of implementation as well as an indication of what is to come in year two through four activities. V. Section V provides an implementation timeline for the completion of major year one deliverables and milestones. Finally, we have not included a budget with this year workplan given the original proposal budget with annual budget breakdowns was only recently approved and still holds generally valid. Following is a table summarizing the program’s goal, objectives, intermediate results, and activities: Expand career guidance services to secondary school students through School to Career in collaboration YED Program Goal To prepare young Palestinian men and women for the job market, and provide them with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). Objective 3: Support service provision skills they need to marginalized and rural communities, including meeting help find employment with the employability needs of rural womenpublic or private sector or to start their own enterprises.