In a partnership with the private sector, the Community Entrepreneurship Program has been
implemented, as well as "How to Start Your Project" Initiative in collaboration with Microsoft,
through holding programs, meetings and seminars involving more than 10,000 youth and
women to strengthen skills necessary to start a community business. The website "Egypt works"
has also been launched in collaboration with the same company in the field of information
technology. Through this site, many jobs have been created, where young people can browse
more than 63 thousand jobs in the private sector and apply any of them. These jobs are
updated daily through communication with companies. And to make it easier for the youth, the
job bank of "Egypt Works" was created, to provide training services and youth employment in
youth centers and Social Development Fund offices, including training for young entrepreneurs.
A labor-intensive project was also implemented through youth employment with young
entrepreneurs in the youth center infrastructure development project, in collaboration with the
Social Fund for Development. This project involves 360 youth centers in 12 provinces, with the
aim of training young people in handicrafts. At least, more than 200,000 young people have
benefited during the period from 2016-2017.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has developed a comprehensive and multidisciplinary strategy
to prevent the exploitation of young people in illegal immigration and to deal with it.
Furthermore, it has laid out a strategy to raise public awareness about its dangers, shed light to
identify the causes and the factors that push minors and young people to engage in illegal
immigration and find alternative solutions to overcome this phenomenon. In this context, the
Ministry of Youth and Sports has launched "Act" to train about 100,000 young men and women
and provide them with important information required by the labor market for various jobs. The
Egypt Works program is also being implemented in universities to train students on labor market
qualification programs as part of the "Egypt Works" initiative. Activities of the Job Search Clubs
were conducted in 12 provinces in collaboration with the ILO to disseminate a culture of selfemployment and career guidance and to introduce small, medium and micro enterprises to help
solve the unemployment issue.
In the field of youth training to enable them to assume public office, the National Academy for
Training and Development of Youth has been created by Presidential Decree No. 434 of 2017
to train and qualify youth with the aim of achieving human development needs for young
professionals in all sectors of the state and improve their skills and abilities on an ongoing basis.
The Ministry of Social Solidarity has developed a set of mechanisms and programs for the
training and development of youth for their integration into the labor market (projects for the
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