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Building Futures through youth employment across the Middle East and North Africa

Building Futures through youth employment across the Middle East and North Africa. Vision: A world where young people have the skills and opportunities to create a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.

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Building Futures through youth employment across the Middle East and North Africa

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  1. Building Futures through youth employment across the Middle East and North Africa Vision: A world where young people have the skills and opportunities to create a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities. Mission: To build futures through youth employment in partnership with the private sector across the Middle East and North Africa. Building Futures

  2. An Overview of EFE Programs • Job Training and Placement • Pathways to a Job • Entrepreneurship • Morocco • Tunisia • Egypt • Jordan • Palestine • Yemen • Supported in US and Europe BuildingFutures

  3. Skills for the Workplace Skills taught in EFE’s Workplace Success Curriculum • Communication skills • Teamwork • Interpersonal strengths and leadership • Define and acquire knowledge needed to be well informed and do excellent work • Self presentation • Work Ethic • Attitude • Time management • Problem solving • Adaptability / flexibility • Self promotion • Goal setting—professional and personal • Identifying a pathway to goals • Recognize and seize opportunities for advancement and promotion in the workplace Building Futures BuildingFutures

  4. Methodologies for Teaching Soft Skills • Mixed Methods Approach • Experiential learning • Classroom or “traditional” learning Building Futures BuildingFutures

  5. Methodologies for Teaching Soft Skills • Experiential Learning • Peer- and trainer-evaluated role playing • Trainer consultation with students • Team-building exercises EFE–Maroc students perform a team building exercise Building Futures BuildingFutures

  6. Methodologies for Teaching Soft Skills • Classroom Learning • Workplace Success workbooks • Principles of soft skills taught by EFE trainer • Group projects JCEF students complete a group project Building Futures BuildingFutures

  7. Methodologies for Teaching Soft Skills • Experiential Learning in Egypt • Company Simulation Model • Acquiring Interview Skills ‘This program is not just a training, it's a new attitude.’ Ahmed Ramadan, EFE Egypt Building Futures BuildingFutures

  8. Measuring Soft Skills Acquisition • EFE’s Monitoring & Evaluation System • A combination of surveys, interviews and focus groups, observation • Gathers feedback from key stakeholders • Stakeholder groups: students, alumni, employers, trainers Building Futures BuildingFutures

  9. Measuring Soft Skills Acquisition • EFE’s Monitoring & Evaluation System Student Survey Pretest In thinking about the skills that I currently have, I believe that I: Student Survey Posttest As a result of my EFE training, I believe that I: Communicate well Yes No Give a good impression of myself Yes No Have self-confidence YesNo Work well with others Yes No Know how to develop my career Yes No Know how to further my technical skills Yes No Have a sense of responsibility YesNo Know how to resolve conflict Yes No Building Futures BuildingFutures

  10. EFE Alumni Acquire Soft Skills "Thanks to (EFE's) Workplace Success, I have developed my self-confidence and my skills I've become a role model for my brothers and sisters (and) I have a positive outlook on the future for myself, my family and my community.“ – EFE-Maroc graduate Mohamed B. “…the soft skills helped us to know ourselves and how to deal with others. It really changed us to be better.” – EFE-Egypt graduate Waleed H. BuildingFutures

  11. Thank You www.efefoundation.org

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