1. Some Youth Programmes in Central Asia by Jeff Goldman
Photo Credit:
International Youth Foundation
Mongolia National Workshop to Test and Apply the Youth Policy Toolbox
June 2017

2. Prospects for Youth - Kyrgyzstan Youth Corps Programme - Kazakhstan
Sample Cases
Jasa.kg – Kyrgyzstan
Prospects for Youth - Kyrgyzstan
Youth Corps Programme - Kazakhstan
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3. Jasa.kg - Krygyzstan
2011 – 2015 International Youth Foundation implements & USAID funds ($4.2M)
Mission: improving youth’s employability through skill development and increased civic engagement
Objectives:
prepare youth for the labour market
foster active citizenship
create a culture of positive youth development
supply orphans with vital life skills

4. Jasa.kg - Krygyzstan
Adina Bazarbaeva, with other volunteers, repairs and reconstructs summer camp cottages at a residential institution for young orphans.
Credit: International Youth Foundation

5. Jasa.kg - Krygyzstan
900 youth have received comprehensive entrepreneurship training
29 youth have earned vouchers to start their own business
21 youth have benefited from mentorships
882 youth have undergone training to increase employment related skills
184 have secured internship placements
1,267 disadvantaged youth have received life skills training with a focus on social adaptability

6. Jasa.kg - Krygyzstan Moving Forward:
Bekjan Japiev and his fellow high schoolers receive recognition for running a business.
Credit:
International Youth Foundation
Moving Forward:
replicate the initiative in schools and vocational training centres in the country

7. Prospects for Youth - Krygyzstan
2016 – present:
implemented by GIZ
(Germany)
Aim: provide expert support to state organizations in order to strengthen interdepartmental dialogue on improving the economic and social participation of young people in society

8. Prospects for Youth - Krygyzstan
Photo Credit:
AsiaNews
Aim: support local governments and local youth NGOs in their joint development of youth development strategies and implementation of activities and measures for youth development.
Progress: parliaments in 4 municipalities have passed 3 year strategies, and funded them each year.
Future: develop youth strategies in 20 municipalities

9. Prospects for Youth - Krygyzstan
Aim: support training on youth support, youth strategies, youth rights, leadership, social and business entrepreneurship, fundraising and other topics.
Progress: trained 63 youth leaders, and 42 youth specialists
Future: train
100 youth leaders per year
180 state & municipal employees in youth policy
Many teachers

10. Prospects for Youth - Krygyzstan
Achievements:
20 or so partner municipalities now either have their own youth work budget, or are allocating more of their municipal budget to activities for young people.
Trained youth officers are developing programmes in career guidance and employment.
One youth centre is now providing a meeting place for ten local youth organisations
TV channel for young people began broadcasting from a youth centre, serving 57 communities
A youth organization renovated an old cultural centre with support from the municipality. It now offers rooms for events and services such as a passport photo studio, which generates revenue for the youth organisation

11. Youth Corps Programme - Kazakhstan
World Bank funding $22M
Mission: to promote young people's community engagement and life skills through a community-based service learning program, especially for vulnerable youth

12. Youth Corps Programme - Kazakhstan
subproject grants and subsistence stipends for community-based service learning
life skills development and project management training
outreach to vulnerable young people
support institutional development of the committee on youth affairs for youth policy implementation.

13. References
JASA.kg (Kyrgyzstan) - Prospects for Youth (Kyrgyzstan) - Youth Corps Programme (Kazakhstan) -