Mapping of Entrepreneurship Education and Training.

Project Overview

The Women and Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Employment Project (WYEEE) is a four-year project, it was funded by Global Affairs of Canada (GAC), and implemented by Save the Children (SC) in partnership with MAAN development center and PARC, in the West Bank (Jordan Valley, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarem and Jenin) and Gaza Strip to empower low-income female youth entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector in WB and Gaza Strip, ages 15-29. This project aimed to reduce barriers to entrepreneurship faced by female youth in the agricultural sector by responding to and addressing the key gender-based cognitive, economic, and social barriers that hinder female youth’s agency and entrepreneurship opportunities. In order to achieve this, the project was designed using a comprehensive youth economic empowerment framework.Under the framework of this project, MAAN contracted GCT to conduct a mapping of existing entrepreneurship education and training programs for age groups (15-18) and (19-29). Within this study, several activities were conducted including but not limited to; 1) needs assessment of these programs against the identified barriers facing female youth (Cognitive, Economic, Financial and Institutional Barriers); 2) identify and catalogue the range of entrepreneurship education and training programs available; 3) analyse the programs’ dimensions that shape intended outcomes; 4) analyse the extent to which existing entrepreneurship programs are in line with market requirements; 5) analyse how gender-responsive and transformative are these programs; 6) determine the level of how is green entrepreneurship incorporated in these programs; and 7) evaluate these programs, and provide recommendations for curricula adaptation.