Through Youth:Work Mozambique, a new activity, International Youth Foundation (IYF) will improve economic livelihood opportunities for highly vulnerable children and youth, including orphans and vulnerable children, and their household members in the province of Cabo Delgado. This activity will increase youth access to vocational/technical skills training linked to the tourism sector, along with life skills training, particularly related to HIV prevention and adolescent reproductive health, and remedial

training in literacy and numeracy as needed. The program will identify youth with interest and inclination toward self-employment and provide training in entrepreneurship. Y:W will place trained youth in internships/apprenticeships and jobs to equip them with practical, on-the-job experience and employment, and link youth to credit sources and mentors, and assist them with enterprise start-up.

The IYF project will directly contribute to the Partnership Framework's Objective 5.5 by 1) Supporting employability and entrepreneurship programs related to the high-growth tourism sector, focused on increasing the income generation capacity of OVC, and youth receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), and their household members who provide critical economic resource support to the OVCs and youth on ART; 2) Identifying models of successful activities, both internationally (e.g. Instituto de Hospitalidade in Brazil, Aga Khan in Zanzibar) and locally (SNV (Netherlands Development Organization), Aga Khan, others), and adapting them for effective replication in Mozambique by indigenous partners; 3) Identifying synergies with ongoing tourism activities/projects from USG and other entities (e.g. private sector, NGO, government) in Cabo Delgado to maximize linkages and post-project sustainability.

The target population will be OVC under 18, youth receiving ART and their household members who are caregivers and provide economic support. IYF will work collaboratively with USG to determine the precise coverage within Cabo Delgado. Criteria for selection could include: 1) USG tourism focus areas (Pemba, Quirimbas, and Ibo Island triangle); 2) Sufficient partner capacity and integrated activities; 3) Areas with strong potential for private sector leverage; 4) Areas with strong potential for job creation and placement and for enterprises that are part of the supply chain for the tourism sector.

Y:W will have cross-cutting education activities as IYF will provide life skills training, English language training, and remedial education as necessary to program participants. IYF will build on the existing life skills curriculum developed by the Ministry of Education, UNICEF, and DANIDA, augmenting it as appropriate with our existing Passport to Success (PTS) life skills curriculum. The addition of PTS modules and methodologies will augment the employability skills participants learn through life skills programs.

Y:W will also have a cross-cutting economic strengthening component. IYF will provide market driven vocational/technical training to prepare young people to be employed in tourism-related jobs (tour guides, cooks, wait staff, bartenders, gardeners, hotel service and maintenance workers), IT services jobs (e.g., database and billing positions), the construction sector, or other sectors. The program's entrepreneurship component will stimulate the development of new businesses in the tourism sector

supply chain and future employment possibilities for additional youth. Some participants may be linked to Aga Khan's new microfinance bank.

Y:W will address gender by: 1) Increasing women's access to income and productive resources by making sure that women aren't pigeonholed into dead-end "female jobs" in the tourism sector (e.g. as maids); 2) Increasing gender equity in HIV activities and services by ensuring equitable female participation in vocational/technical and life skills training activities; 3) Addressing male norms and behaviors by delivering gender-sensitization training as part of the life skills package.

To become more cost efficient over time Y:W will use strategies that aim to generate a 1:1 leverage of private-sector resources to complement USG resources, and to create partnerships/alliances between nonprofit, private sector and governmental entities to maximize their respective contributions and added value to youth employability interventions. Y:W will adapt existing intellectual property, from Brazil and IYF partners working in tourism in other parts of the world, to the realities and needs of Mozambique. Once these materials have been adapted, they can be widely disseminated in a cost-effective manner. Promising practices and lessons learned through rigorous evaluation can be applied from other countries and tailored to the Mozambican context, rather than "reinventing the wheel."

Through Youth:Work Mozambique, a new activity, IYF will improve economic livelihood opportunities for OVC and caregivers, particularly women, in the province of Cabo Delgado. IYF will provide market- driven job training, life skills training, and remedial education (as necessary) to support beneficiaries to gain marketable skills, place participants in internships, and improve livelihood possibilities for young people and their families through job placement. IYF will also train selected youth in entrepreneurship, business planning and the like, link them to credit sources, and identify mentors for them to start or expand small businesses.

IYF will work through local partners to implement Youth:Work Mozambique, systematically developing their capacity as they implement activities and developing a path toward sustainability of interventions. Working with the technical assistance from IYF, the selected partner will conduct a labor market assessment in Cabo Delgado to determine what the entry level job needs are in the area.

In addition to establishing the linkage between the implementing partner and private sector employers in the area, this survey will help ensure that actual training content responds to market needs and is appropriate for the target group. Training will include basic literacy & numeracy and life skills education with an emphasis on HIV prevention and addressing gender norms. The skills-based component will focus on the needs of the tourism sector (e.g. communication skills, customer service, conflict management) and an additional track will be developed for entrepreneurship for those seeking self- employment. The implementing organization will create linkages with the private-sector employers to create a network for internships and apprenticeships in the tourism sector. Y:W Mozambique will include a robust monitoring & evaluation component to assess the quality of training, job placement, employer satisfaction and the success of small business start-ups.

IYF will provide market-driven job training, life skills training, and remedial education (as necessary) to support beneficiaries to gain marketable skills, place youth in internships, and improve livelihood possibilities for young people and their families through job placement. IYF will also train selected youth

in entrepreneurship, business planning and, link them to credit sources, and identify mentors for them to start or expand small businesses.

IYF will work through local partners to implement Y:W Mozambique, systematically developing their capacity as they implement activities and develop a path toward sustainable interventions. With technical assistance from IYF, a yet to be selected partner will conduct a labor market assessment in Cabo Delgado to determine what the entry level job needs are in the area.

In addition to establishing the linkage between the implementing partner and private sector employers in the area, this survey will help ensure that the training content responds to market needs and is appropriate for the target group. Training will include basic literacy and numeracy and life skills education with an emphasis on HIV prevention. The skills-based component will focus on the needs of the tourism sector (e.g. communication skills, customer service, conflict management) and an additional track will be developed for entrepreneurship for those seeking self-employment. The implementing organization will create linkages with the private-sector employers to create a network for internships and apprenticeships in the tourism sector. Y:W Mozambique will include a robust monitoring and evaluation component to assess the quality of training, job placement, employer satisfaction and the success of small business start-ups.