Latin America & the Caribbean
We’ve worked with more than 70 local organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to help them harness their passion for sustainable youth development projects that measurably change the lives of underserved youth. The first member of IYF’s global partner network joined from Ecuador in 1991, just a year after our founding. Flagship initiatives New Employment Opportunities (NEO) and entra21 have connected more than 100,000 young people with employability training and jobs and created critical alliances among government ministries, businesses, and youth organizations. A great example of how IYF builds local capacity to meet global standards of excellence, our innovative new assessment tool for NEO is helping us evaluate more than 200 service providers, who receive tailored coaching and improvement plans from our regional experts. Together, we’re reshaping how young people in Latin America and the Caribbean envision and can access a brighter future.Learn more about IYF’s work in Latin America and the Caribbean by downloading the fact sheet, available in English, Portuguese and Spanish, or explore our 2024 Impact Report, available in English and Spanish.
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Read more: Youth:Work—Providing Life & Employability Skills Training
Youth:Work—Providing Life & Employability Skills Training
This capacity statement describes the scope and reach of the Youth:Work initiative in terms of preparing youth for the job market and successful careers through technical and interpersonal skills training.…
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Read more: Youth – Employability – Opportunity Conference in Bogotá, Colombia
Youth – Employability – Opportunity Conference in Bogotá, Colombia
This event report presents the proceedings of the Youth – Employability – Opportunity conference held in Bogotá, Colombia, on November 19 and 20, 2009. The event was held in collaboration…
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Read more: Reproductive Health Lessons: A Supplemental Curriculum for Young People
Reproductive Health Lessons: A Supplemental Curriculum for Young People
This curriculum provides reproductive health and family planning lessons to life skills-based youth development organizations for inclusion in their programs. The curriculum addresses topics such as contraception, sexually transmitted infections,…
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Read more: YOUth No. 3, Spotlight: Workable Solutions—Tackling the Youth Unemployment Crisis
YOUth No. 3, Spotlight: Workable Solutions—Tackling the Youth Unemployment Crisis
This article by Christy Macy appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of YOUth magazine. Macy is the Director of Publications at the International Youth Foundation (IYF). In this article, she…
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Read more: YOUth No. 3, Partners in Progress: “Effectively Global, Appropriately Local: IYF’s Partner Network”
YOUth No. 3, Partners in Progress: “Effectively Global, Appropriately Local: IYF’s Partner Network”
This article by Christy Macy appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of YOUth magazine. Written in the context of the 2008 International Youth Foundation Global Partner Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey,…
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Read more: YOUth No. 3, In My Own Words: Carla Tennenbaum
YOUth No. 3, In My Own Words: Carla Tennenbaum
This article by Carla Tennenbaum appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of YOUth magazine. Tennenbaum is a young social entrepreneur in Brazil and was a 2008 YouthActionNet® fellow. In this…
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Read more: YOUth No. 3, Citizen Youth: Action Takes Root, IYF’s Global Youth Leadership Program Goes Local
YOUth No. 3, Citizen Youth: Action Takes Root, IYF’s Global Youth Leadership Program Goes Local
This article by Sheila Kinkade appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of YOUth magazine. Kinkade is the Manager of Marketing and Communications at the International Youth Foundation (IYF). In this…
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Read more: Final Report of the entra21 Program, Phase 1: 2001-2007
Final Report of the entra21 Program, Phase 1: 2001-2007
This report presents findings from the entra21 program. Published by the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, this report describes the program’s accomplishments and findings from 2001…
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Read more: FieldNotes: Working with the Business Sector to Advance Employment
FieldNotes: Working with the Business Sector to Advance Employment
This issue of FieldNotes focuses on how developing alliances with the private sector is critical to a program’s success in providing youth with marketable skills and placing them in decent…