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Europe and Central Asia | Kosovo

While skills development is one side of the youth labour market and it contributes towards the increased employability, additional concrete measures are needed in Kosovo to address the access of the skilled youth to the labour market. Therefore SDC decided to enlarge its contribution in the field of youth employability by starting this new program that would facilitate the transition of young women and men from education to employment.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Kenya | Banking and Financial Services

The Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust was established in early 2005 to support the development of financial markets in Kenya as a means to stimulate wealth creation and reduce poverty. It operates as an independent Trust under the supervision of professional trustees, with policy guidance from a programme investment committee.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Tanzania, United Republic Of | Banking and Financial Services

The overall aim of the Trust is to provide greater access for more people to engage with the financial system throughout Tanzania. Our focus is entirely on financial sector deepening. We support the three pillars of financial sector development: expanding the scale and viability of financial institutions and related transactions; financial sector infrastructure, especially the crucial task of capacity-building; and the policy, legal and regulatory framework.

Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa | United Kingdom | Banking and Financial Services

FinMark Trust is a non-profit independent trust, funded primarily by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and was established in March 2002. FinMark Trust's purpose is ‘Making financial markets work for the poor, by promoting financial inclusion and regional financial integration'. It does this by conducting research to identify the systemic constraints that prevent financial markets from reaching out to these consumers and by advocating for change on the basis of research findings. Thus, FinMark Trust has a catalytic role, driven by its purpose to start processes of change that ultimately lead to the development of inclusive financial systems that can benefit all consumers.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria

Having identified the potential of Nigeria's meat and leather industry to contribute to growth, employment and improved incomes, the GEMS1 Meat and Leather Project will promote meat and leather industry competetiveness in Kano, Kaduna and Lagos. The project will identify the underlying constraints to compettiveness inthe meat and leather industry in these selected states. It will work with industry actors-business and reform-minded government agencies supporting the industry-to identify how market systems can be improved to overcome these contraints. The project team will identify and work with suitable business partners to pilot interventions witht he potential to improve market systems in both industries.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria | Infrastructure, Construction and Transport

Coffey International Development manages the Construction and Real Estate (GEMS2) component of the joint DFID / World Bank Growth, Employment and Markets in States (GEMS) programme in Nigeria. GEMS2 applies the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach. This is the first time the M4P approach has been applied to the construction and real estate sector. The project aims to create 20,000 employment and income opportunities for people working in the built environment.

Work commenced in May 2010 with a six month inception phase when detailed research and analysis was undertaken to identify potential intervention areas. A variety of studies, stakeholder meetings, interviews, team workshops and consultations were conducted in order to move from broad awareness to sharper understanding of systemic constraints to be addressed by project interventions. In doing so, the project has followed a diagnostic process as suggested by the M4P approach. The project has initiated in Lagos and will be rolled out to Kano, Kaduna and Abuja during 2011.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria

The assignment will consolidate and deepen the progress achieved by the existing World Bank / DFID funded Investment Climate Programme (ICP), which is working in the same four focal states. The GEMS programme will address issues relating to land and tax administration and investment promotion and facilitation. Furthermore, it will provide a flexible facility to respond to new opportunities to reduce barriers to investment in the four states, other states or at the federal level, as and when priorities emerge and it becomes clear that there is real commitment and capability to change within the public sector.

Sub-Saharan Africa | Nigeria

GEMS4 seeks to improve income and employment opportunities within Nigeria’s wholesale and retail sector, particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable. Specifically, the project aims to create and sustain 10,000 full time jobs and increase incomes for 500,000 people within the sector. Although Nigeria’s wholesale and retail sector is growing quickly, inefficiencies within the distribution chain have resulted in lower prices for producers, lower wages for employers, lower profits for businesses and a higher cost of living for consumers.

GEMS4 is working to increase local capacity and change market incentives so that the wholesale and retail sector better meets the long-term needs of the poor.