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Recommendation
Thematic Areas
Promote youth initiatives, including education, training, rural advisory services and inclusive finance, to develop their capacity and facilitate access to land and resources, in order to enable them to be drivers of improvement in sustainable agriculture development, and involved in all levels of food systems
2016
Greater emphasis needs to be placed on improving smallholders’ productivity through stronger links to input and output markets; better access to rural infrastructure and agricultural services; and access to capital and capacity building, especially among young people in agriculture.
2013
Establish a vibrant rural financial system that includes a diverse mix of financial institutions and networks that work together to support innovation and rural access among smallholders.
2013
Monitor health inequalities at national and subnational levels to identify geographic areas and subpopulations where prevalence is highest, with intervention priority to the most affected areas and population groups, often adolescents, women and children living in poorest households in rural areas but also urban areas.
2020
Access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food must be framed as a human right, with priority given to the most vulnerable. Policies that promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems are needed, with special attention to the food security and nutrition of children under five, school-age children, adolescent girls and women in order to halt the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.
2018
Prevention of wasting requires addressing the underlying causes of malnutrition. Breastfeeding support and nutrition counselling for families – particularly regarding how to improve the quality of complementary foods and feeding practices – and early care for common childhood illnesses are essential.
2018
The needs of vulnerable groups should be at the forefront of policy responses. Infants and young children are particularly vulnerable to climate shocks, which can diminish their food security and nutrition, thus limiting their future opportunities. Children are notably affected if, for example, such shocks undermine their school performance, decrease their earning potential, or expose them to a higher risk of diet-related non-communicable diseases later in life.
2018
Advance youth access to productive land, natural resources, inputs, productive tools, extension, advisory, and financial services, education, training, markets, information, and inclusion in decision-making.
2014
Provide appropriate training, education, and mentorship programs for youth to increase their capacity and/or access to decent work and entrepreneurship opportunities, and foster their contribution to local development.
2014
Promote development and access to innovation and new technologies, combined with traditional knowledge, to attract and enable youth to be drivers of improvement in agriculture and food systems.
2014
Strengthen transparency in price formation processes and access to markets to improve the ability of all farmers, with special attention to smallholders, women and young farmers, to benefit from market returns to their labor and financial investments and reinforce their role in the food value chain.
2017
Increase opportunities for women and youth in the agricultural sector by strengthening their active involvement in farm ownership, farm management, marketing and other agricultural and agri-food related activities, as well as improving equal access to land and other assets, so as to improve incomes and livelihoods. Facilitate international fora for sharing information on relevant policy changes and successes of policy measures which empower women and youth in the agriculture and food systems in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality.
2016
There is a need to place agriculture and rural development – together with other policies – at the centre of sustainable economic growth by strengthening the role of the agricultural households and smallholder farms and their access to land in many parts of the world, encouraging women participation, gender equality and young and beginning farmers.
2009
Implement effective actions for the empowerment of women and youth in the rural-urban continuum [policies, technical assistance, capacity building and investments that create new decent work and agri-entrepreneurship opportunities for women and youth and support their empowerment as active participants and leaders at all levels of food systems and institutions].
2021
Raise awareness of the importance of plant health to all.
2019
Improve the integration of family farmers, smallholders, women and young people living in rural areas into related value chains and transparent and efficient markets.
2018
Encourage the development of and access to a range of new research and technologies that increase agricultural productivity and sustainability, especially those that enhance opportunities for the rural youth.
2018
The rapid and constant growth of ICTs and their applications in agriculture contribute to agricultural productivity and profitability, food security and nutrition and to promote sustainable agriculture. It is important to explore their potential opportunities and impacts, particularly on women and small and family holders, addressing scientific and technological issues, as well as institutional, commercial and trade-related aspects.
2018
ICTs development and use in the agricultural sector have an important role for its attractiveness, especially for rural youth.
2018
Promote institutional innovation in improving agricultural production systems, giving full play to the active role of all types of food producers, enhancing the degree of sustainable agricultural intensification and organization, and better enabling family farmers and smallholders, in particular, women and young people, to integrate into the food value chain
2016
Promote technical skill upgrading, especially for smallholder farmers and rural workers, through training programmes focused on innovative farming practices and technologies that promote sustainable production, business skills, as well as basic education and best practices to cope with downstream market concentration.
2016
Increase women’s participation in the workforce and reduce youth unemployment by supporting food system employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in particular for smallholders and especially for women and youth through training and skills development.
2015
Special efforts are needed to promote training programmes and skills development and improved access to productive resources for smallholders, women and youth. Explore mechanisms, including south-south and triangular cooperation, to share successful experiences in skills anticipation and matching, apprenticeship and work-linked training pathways and improved access to productive assets.
2015
Improved food security and nutrition requires inclusive economic growth and employment creation, especially for women and youth, and social protection mechanisms.
2015
Responsible investment in sustainable and resilient food systems should increase productivity to expand food supplies and increase incomes and quality jobs in rural areas, especially for women and youth, reducing poverty and contribute to the G20’s inclusive growth agenda.
2015
Need to increase the level of agricultural productivity for the 67% or rural youth who live in the highest-productivity areas and areas offering diverse and remunerative opportunities
2019
Programmes to improve the quality of public education
2019
Programmes to prevent people from dropping out of school
2019
Second-chance education for out-of-school youth
2019
Digital enabled and demand-driven agricultural extension initiatives featuring peer-to-peer learning
2019
Policies for the promotion of land rental markets
2019
Intergenerational land transfer programmes
2019
Support for the growth of secondary cities and rural towns, including linkages to rural areas
2019
Targeted upgrading of technology, skills and capabilities to enhance employability and entrepreneurial capacity in rural areas: With a particular emphasis on youth, women, landless workers and other groups facing substantial risk of exclusion, measures to enhance employability include targeted improvement of key technological skills, vocational training for jobs in the commercial sector and basic life skills for success in working environments.
2016
Create more vibrant rural economies and support policies and initiatives aimed at enhancing youth’s long term economic prospects, which in turn will cultivate trust in government among young people
2020
Focus on broad-based growth, not just on youth, to create an economic environment in which food system businesses can thrive and generate jobs for both young and old.
2020
In creating opportunities to diversify, attention to women and youth is important. This implies the promotion of more equal access to productive assets between generations and between men and women.
2021
Technical and vocational training provided to youth, adolescents and women has proved helpful in strengthening entrepreneurial activities and enabling entry into self-employment activities. Further public efforts should seek to reduce business start-up costs and improve the business climate.
2021
Facilitate small-scale local food processing industries that provide new bottom-of-the-pyramid business and employment opportunities – especially for women and youth – and that increase access to a wider variety of food products.
2021
Ensure the realization of the human right to food and the right to work in safe and healthy workingconditions for all young people and guarantee freedom from discrimination based on origin,nationality, race, colour, descent, sex, sexual orientation, language, culture, marital status, property,disability, age, political or other opinion, religion, birth, or economic, social or other status.
2021
Support youth participation and leadership in rural, urban and rural-urban organizations (including workers, farmers, fishers, cooperatives and women’s organizations), incentivize union affiliation for young people, and remove barriers to participation for effective social dialogue on holistic food systems interventions.
2021
Recognize the multiple and diverse voices that young people can bring to sustainable food systems transformations; guarantee and encourage equal, non-discriminatory and active participation of youth in formal governance mechanisms on food security and nutrition and in other decision-making fora at all levels (e.g. civil society, private sector, CFS, national and local policy making spaces).
2021
Ensure youth-oriented policies take cross-cutting (intersectional) relationships and hierarchies into account, providing additional supports to improve equity and resources across generation, gender, class, culture, ethnicity and citizenship status.
2021
National and regional governments, civil society and private sector mechanisms should regularly review and renew youth-targeted policies for education, engagement and employment in food systems, building on the results and lessons learned from improved data sources and earlier interventions.
2021
Enhance standards of living and reduce vulnerability for youth through human rights-based social protection and safety nets in an equitable approach that includes gender and social inclusion.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Ensure that employment and labour market policies and labour demand interventions, including public employment programmes, explicitly target young people. These policies not only can contribute to creating jobs for youth but can also directly support transitions to sustainable food systems by restoring the natural resource base, strengthening social and physical infrastructure, and contributing to territorial markets and food security.
2021
Implement comprehensive active labour market policies to increase youth employability and enhance their employment outcomes in food systems through a combination of interventions such as job search assistance, employment services, training and skills development, job matching, entrepreneurship coaching and incubators, in conjunction with demand-side measures to create employment opportunities.
2021
Support youth entrepreneurship in both individual and collective enterprises through innovative social finance and resource distribution, including through the provision of mentorship, land and infrastructure sharing opportunities, and granting programmes.
2021
Use incentives to promote agroecological and other innovative practices in food systems technologies, practices and organizational modalities with the explicit intent to generate new, decent jobs and enhance the quality of existing jobs for youth.
2021
Incentivize the establishment and functioning of cooperatives and other organizations to facilitate young farmers’ access to productive assets such as tools, machinery, farming and fishing equipment, storage and cooling facilities, processing and post-harvest equipment, and new, adaptable technologies.
2021
Promote the development and availability of affordable and inclusive financial services (direct funds, favourable interest rates, cash transfers, targeted subsidies, microcredit and other credit programmes, start-up capital, insurance) and advisory services (extension, training) tailored to the needs of young farmers and other own-account workers in food systems.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Engage youth in research related to sustainable food systems and resource conservation, and strengthen opportunities for youth to participate in community-based research partnerships through the development of methodologies that integrate diverse ways of knowing and communicating.
2021
Reform vocational training curricula to develop community-education-business partnerships based on collaborative assessments of local community needs, focusing on the entry points of most interest to youth, such as agroecological production, nutrition and dietetics, food value chains, marketing, and food systems education.
2021
Recognize the multiple and diverse voices that young people can bring to sustainable food systems transformations; guarantee and encourage equal, non-discriminatory and active participation of youth in formal governance mechanisms on food security and nutrition and in other decision-making fora at all levels (e.g. civil society, private sector, CFS, national and local policy making spaces).
2021
Enhance standards of living and reduce vulnerability for youth through human rights-based social protection and safety nets in an equitable approach that includes gender and social inclusion.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Recognize and create an enabling environment for youth pluriactivity in food systems. Provide holistic opportunities for dignified engagement and decent work in collectives and as individuals, whether as entrepreneurs, wage labourers, or autonomous or own-account workers.
2021
Incentivize the establishment and functioning of cooperatives and other organizations to facilitate young farmers’ access to productive assets such as tools, machinery, farming and fishing equipment, storage and cooling facilities, processing and post-harvest equipment, and new, adaptable technologies.
2021
Promote the development and availability of affordable and inclusive financial services (direct funds, favourable interest rates, cash transfers, targeted subsidies, microcredit and other credit programmes, start-up capital, insurance) and advisory services (extension, training) tailored to the needs of young farmers and other own-account workers in food systems.
2021
Create a supportive policy environment for youth-led start-up initiatives (e.g. tax breaks, facilitated access to financial instruments and emerging technologies, incubation hubs that help youth build their capacity to better engage markets and value-added activities of different types).
2021
Provide support and insurance for community-based collective impact investment and cooperative and flexible financing programmes to support youth-led enterprises.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Reform vocational training curricula to develop community-education-business partnerships based on collaborative assessments of local community needs, focusing on the entry points of most interest to youth, such as agroecological production, nutrition and dietetics, food value chains, marketing, and food systems education.
2021
Support the provision of youth-sensitive and youth-specific rural and urban advisory and extension services including through new information-sharing platforms.
2021
Develop the digital skills and capacities of young workers, as well as of those transitioning from school to work, in sustainable and innovative approaches for urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture.
2021
Recognize the multiple and diverse voices that young people can bring to sustainable food systems transformations; guarantee and encourage equal, non-discriminatory and active participation of youth in formal governance mechanisms on food security and nutrition and in other decision-making fora at all levels (e.g. civil society, private sector, CFS, national and local policy making spaces).
2021
Strengthen labour monitoring and statistics together with appropriate metrics for more accurate reporting on young people’s employment and wage patterns, going beyond recording a single labour-force status and only primary occupations to incorporate school-work combinations, informal and migrant work, and multiple occupations.
2021
Improve the documentation of different forms of youth participation in food systems, including through involving young people in research on adequate and healthy diets and in policy and governance spaces, to inform proactive policy development on youth engagement.
2021
National and regional governments, civil society and private sector mechanisms should regularly review and renew youth-targeted policies for education, engagement and employment in food systems, building on the results and lessons learned from improved data sources and earlier interventions.
2021
Support youth participation in environmental monitoring and regulation, agroecology transitions, and other actions to preserve the natural resource base (land, forests, water) for coming generations, based on a systematic review of the social, economic and environmental consequences of existing land-use practices.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Develop social protection programmes that recognize and compensate young people’s unpaid contributions to food systems through their engagement in reproductive work and in volunteer and community development activities. Consider ways to legitimize and value care work, especially that performed by young women in the context of food systems (e.g. through the provision of public childcare, parental leave subsidies and other paid community service programming).
2021
Strengthen labour governance to make it more youth-friendly, through support to labour inspection systems in sectors and occupations where young people are prevalent, such as temporary, apprenticeship and entry-level occupations. Support community-level monitoring and other forms of ensuring compliance to labour legislation and respect of labour rights, including through awareness, training and education campaigns and support for union affiliation.
2021
Recognize and create an enabling environment for youth pluriactivity in food systems. Provide holistic opportunities for dignified engagement and decent work in collectives and as individuals, whether as entrepreneurs, wage labourers, or autonomous or own-account workers.
2021
Support youth entrepreneurship in both individual and collective enterprises through innovative social finance and resource distribution, including through the provision of mentorship, land and infrastructure sharing opportunities, and granting programmes.
2021
Promote the development, review and implementation of programmes and policies to support the rights of rural youth to access, conserve and protect land, seeds and biodiversity, fisheries, and forests by applying guidance provided in international instruments. Ensure the recognition of their legitimate tenure rights, especially for Indigenous and customary collective land ownership, including through agrarian reform.
2021
Incentivize the establishment and functioning of cooperatives and other organizations to facilitate young farmers’ access to productive assets such as tools, machinery, farming and fishing equipment, storage and cooling facilities, processing and post-harvest equipment, and new, adaptable technologies.
2021
Promote the development and availability of affordable and inclusive financial services (direct funds, favourable interest rates, cash transfers, targeted subsidies, microcredit and other credit programmes, start-up capital, insurance) and advisory services (extension, training) tailored to the needs of young farmers and other own-account workers in food systems.
2021
Create a supportive policy environment for youth-led start-up initiatives (e.g. tax breaks, facilitated access to financial instruments and emerging technologies, incubation hubs that help youth build their capacity to better engage markets and value-added activities of different types).
2021
Provide support and insurance for community-based collective impact investment and cooperative and flexible financing programmes to support youth-led enterprises.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Support the development of incubators, digital tools and market niches, as well as certification and price premium programmes for agroecological, fair trade, organic, denomination of origin, and other ecological and animal welfare-oriented programmes to enable youth entry and engagement with sustainable food supply chains.
2021
Enhance public procurement and other forms of structured and mediated markets, such as farm-to-school and public nutrition programmes, for sustainable and youth-led enterprises, using fair and transparent prices.
2021
Engage youth in research related to sustainable food systems and resource conservation, and strengthen opportunities for youth to participate in community-based research partnerships through the development of methodologies that integrate diverse ways of knowing and communicating.
2021
Reform vocational training curricula to develop community-education-business partnerships based on collaborative assessments of local community needs, focusing on the entry points of most interest to youth, such as agroecological production, nutrition and dietetics, food value chains, marketing, and food systems education.
2021
Encourage youth to practice agroecology and other sustainable innovations by connecting knowledge that is locally specific (traditional and intergenerational) with horizontal and formal training and education programmes, as well as advisory and extension services, to improve the resilience of agriculture, farming systems and food systems to environmental and social shocks.
2021
Support the provision of youth-sensitive and youth-specific rural and urban advisory and extension services including through new information-sharing platforms.
2021
Develop the digital skills and capacities of young workers, as well as of those transitioning from school to work, in sustainable and innovative approaches for urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture.
2021
Invest in focused initiatives that support the particular financing needs of women and youth entrepreneurs.
2022
Prioritize capacity-building for MSMEs to build and expand existing localized value chains and create an enabling environment, with a specific focus on women, youth and other underrepresented entrepreneurs.
2022
Maintain and strengthen support for civil society organizations (including producer organizations, consumer groups, women’s forums, youth groups and indigenous groups) that are working on food systems, and enable them to bring a balancing power and accountability to the interests of business and the State.
2022
When repurposing public support to make a healthy diet less costly, policymakers will have to avoid potential inequality trade-offs that may emerge if farmers are not in a position to specialize in the production of nutritious foods due to resource constraints. This could be particularly the case with small-scale farmers, women and youth.
2022
Improving access and affordability of healthy diets through school food and nutrition programmes (among others) especially ones designed to improve dietary diversity, while also encouraging the purchase of fresh food from local producers. In-kind transfers, especially in places where food markets are not functioning well, could increase access to nutritious foods, in addition to food subsidies, especially those focused on nutritious foods and targeted at the most vulnerable.
2021
Document lessons learned from IFAD AE-based projects investing in multi-stakeholder territorial platforms, where small-scale producers, women, youth and Indigenous Peoples are meaningfully involved in discussing and finding solutions to the systemic barriers to the transition of agroecological and sustainable food systems.
2021
Amplify and empower historically excluded voices with special attention to and engagement of women, Indigenous Peoples, smallholder farmers and other small-scale producers, and youth.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should engage, encourage and empower youth, acknowledging their diversity, to be actively involved in food systems by enhancing their access to land, natural resources, inputs, tools, information, extension and advisory services, financial services, education, training, markets, and promote their inclusion in decision-making processes in accordance with national legislation and regulations.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector, non-governmental organizations, and communities should invest in appropriate vocational and skill trainings, formal education, and mentorship programmes for youth to increase their capacity and access to decent work, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, as well as in demand side enabling policies and instruments to create decentwork opportunities, to stimulate and be drivers toward sustainable food systems for the next generation.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations and private sector should promote development, rural-urban linkages, and access to information, social innovations, resource hubs, and new technologies and practices for youth along food supply chains that enhance the sustainability of food systems, improve nutrition and support social enterprises and of youth entrepreneurship (particularly in countries experiencing high rates of youth internal and external migration).
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations and private sector should, in accordance to national legislations, enable youth active engagement and participation in policy-making across sectors and support the individual and collective capacities to shape food systems by recognizing their agency.
2021
Governments should take equity and equality into consideration when acting to address food environments and ensure members of vulnerable communities, indigenous peoples and local communities, peasants, pastoralists, small-scale fisher folks, agricultural and food workers, rural and urban women and youth, people with disabilities, and people facing constraints due to age and illness, have sufficient access to diverse food that contribute to healthy diets.
2021
Create an enabling environment for young people to remain in, or move to, rural areas by: i) protecting their rights and livelihoods; ii) creating decent work opportunities, including through applying agroecological and other innovative approaches; and iii) by addressing specific challenges for young people such as access to land, in accordance with national legislation, mechanization and technologies, credit and information, educational and entrepreneurial opportunities, and by investing in rural infrastructure and services to reduce gaps between rural and urban areas.
2019
Promote agroecological and other innovative approaches including, as appropriate, through the use of digital technologies and other Information and Communication Technologies as an entry point for the involvement of youth, women, indigenous peoples and local communities in agriculture and food systems.
2019
Support the horizontal sharing of knowledge and experiences building on existing producers’ organizations and networks, including processes designed specifically by and for women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Support the horizontal sharing of knowledge and experiences building on existing producers’ organizations and networks, including processes designed specifically by and for women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Strengthen public research to address the needs of farmers and all other people working and living in rural areas, in particular women, youth, elders, indigenous peoples and local communities.
2019
Support processes that facilitate and prioritize the active participation of people most at risk of food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms and people in vulnerable situations, including women, youth, indigenous peoples and local communities, in decision-making that affects them at the local, national and global levels, through the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.
2019
Increase access to, inter alia, education, appropriate extension and financial services, methodologies and technologies that are adequate for women, youth and elders, and full participation in related policy processes.
2019
In consultation with partner governments, donors should draw on lessons learned from mapping donor investments at the country level to explore options for a common framework and data infrastructure that could be used in a flexible way across multiple countries. If there is sufficient support, donors should invest in supporting the development of the necessary data infrastructure.
2023
Promote women and youth employment in fisheries.
2023
At the individual or community level, protect land rights for vulnerable groups, including women, youth and Indigenous Peoples, to address existing inequalities in access and in ownership.
2023
Grassroots movements are playing a key role in reshaping food landscapes from below and demonstrating the transformative potential of an engaged citizenry.
2024
Tackle structural inequalities, ensuring interventions are pro-poor and inclusive by empowering populations in situations of vulnerability and marginalization; reducing gender inequalities by supporting women’s economic activities and the equitable distribution of resources; promoting the inclusion of women, youth and other populations in situations of marginalization; guaranteeing access to essential services; implementing fiscal reforms to reduce income inequality.
2024
Governments should engage in innovative partnerships with the private sector to commercialize more smallholders and SMEs. These might include public–private partnerships to help deliver financial services and insurance to small farms, and organizing small farms into groups for marketing purposes.
2017
Create more opportunities for young farmers by enhancing quality food production
2020
In least transformed countries, reducing fertility rate and improving farm productivity and the connectivity of rural areas are of central importance in addressing low productivity and a lack of agency
2019
Interventions designed to respond to multiple youth constraints be conceived of as multi-component, comprehensive programmes so as to be more effective in improving youth development outcomes
2019
Governments should address pockets of persistent rural poverty with a mix of targeted development initiatives, social safety nets and youth-specific investments
2019
Need to address youth unemployment, which is much higher than in the less transformed countries in the other three country categories
2019
Youth-focused microfinance, savings groups and cash transfers for business start-ups
2019
Programmes promoting access to land for entrepreneurial young farmers
2019
Establishment and maintenance of the Enabling Youth Employment Index (AfDB)
2019
Technical assistance to microfinance institutions to help them to innovate, deliver and document financial services for young people
2019
Need to dramatically speed up demographic transition starting with the youth including investments in productive and reproductive spheres
2019
Active labour market policies for the unemployed
2019
Youth-specific investments in areas where rural poverty persists need to focus, among other things, on building and strengthening rural people’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills so that they will be better prepared to seize the opportunities that are opened up as their countries attain more advanced stages in the transformation process
2019
Positive youth development programmes that provide mentorship
2019
Programmes to help youth re-enter farming activities after having spent time outside rural areas
2019
After-school programmes for adolescent girls
2019
Investments in reproductive health (including family planning) education and services for young girls
2019
Vocational training and apprenticeship programmes for young people
2019
Programmes aimed at building non-cognitive skills, including team-building and practical problem-solving
2019
Rural-rural and rural-urban road infrastructure
2019
Rural electrification for productive activities
2019
Access to workspace and infrastructure for rural and smalltown households and for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
2019
Rural water, health and sanitation
2019
Regulatory structures to promote mobile communications coverage in rural areas
2019
Regulatory structures to promote mobile money and mobile finance
2019
Simplification of business registration procedures
2019
Community microfinance, savings groups, cash transfers for business start-ups
2019
Improved wholesale markets
2019
Value chains investments designed in collaboration with the private sector
2019
Loan guarantees for rural small and medium-sized enterprises
2019
Leveraging programmes to encourage NGOs to experiment with youth-centred entrepreneurial programmes
2019
Invest not only in education but also broadly in sectors such as transportation and energy infrastructure to create inclusive food system opportunities
2020
Reverse traditional thinking about food systems by starting from the consumer, focusing on diets and consumer demand. Better collection of data on changing diets, especially consumption of processed foods, and development of nationally appropriate dietary guidelines can inform strategies to address rising obesity and persistent malnutrition
2020