Common use of Youth Environmental Service Clause in Contracts

Youth Environmental Service. Programme Description: This initiative aims to improve the impact of the Environmental Sector’s Youth Environmental Service – the initiative involves unemployed young people in activities and interventions that provide an environmental service that benefits the community whilst they are also provided with opportunities for personal development, accredited training and exit opportunities. This programme is a subset of the broader National Youth Service discussed above. Interventions • Business agreed to explore mechanisms to improve placements. • Business and Government will interact in specific sectors to ensure that training provided during participation in the EPWP responds to the skills needs in the private sector Factors critical to enable success: Thus far the key challenge has been in providing exit opportunities for these youth, where the target of 75% has not been achieved due to limited job opportunities in the country as well as the lack of host institutions where beneficiaries can ply their trade in line with the accredited training that has been undertaken.

Youth Environmental Service. Programme Description: This initiative aims to improve the impact of the Environmental Sector’s Youth Environmental Service – the Service. The initiative involves unemployed young people in activities and interventions that provide an environmental service that benefits the community whilst while they are also provided with opportunities for personal development, accredited training and exit opportunities. This programme is a subset of the broader National Youth Service discussed above. Interventions • Business agreed to explore mechanisms to improve placements. • Business and Government will interact in specific sectors to ensure that training provided during participation in the EPWP responds to the skills needs in the private sector sector. Factors critical to enable success: Thus far far, the key challenge has been in providing exit opportunities for these youth, where the target of 75% has not been achieved due to limited job opportunities in the country as well as the lack of host institutions where beneficiaries can ply their trade in line with the accredited training that has been undertaken.

Youth Environmental Service. Programme Description: This initiative aims to improve the impact of the Environmental Sector’s Youth Environmental Service – the Service. The initiative involves unemployed young people in activities and interventions that provide an environmental service that benefits the community whilst while they are also provided with opportunities for personal development, accredited training and exit opportunities. This programme is a subset of the broader National Youth Service discussed above. Interventions •  Business agreed to explore mechanisms to improve placements. •  Business and Government will interact in specific sectors to ensure that training provided during participation in the EPWP responds to the skills needs in the private sector sector. Factors critical to enable success: Thus far far, the key challenge has been in providing exit opportunities for these youth, where the target of 75% has not been achieved due to limited job opportunities in the country as well as the lack of host institutions where beneficiaries can ply their trade in line with the accredited training that has been undertaken.