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Together with the Empower Youth for Work project team of Indonesia, a selected team of experts have analysed the context of the current challenges around the existing youth hubs. They have found solutions from all over the world and made a shortlist of those that are relevant and replicable to…

Curious about the impact of the learning exchanges from Pakistan to Nepal and from Bangladesh to India? Explore the impact stories about setting up sustainable rural hubs here: Empowering youth in Pakistan Empowering youth in Bangladesh  

It seems like yesterday when EYW Pakistan team returned from Emotive exchange visit of Nepal with bucket full of ideas to implement in the districts of Layyah and Jamshoro and spin the wheel of entrepreneurship in right direction. But it wasn’t as easy as we all thought as yet again we…

  “This exchange program was a phenomenal experience. It was full of valuable lessons consisting of best practices for achieving sustainability for small enterprises. Aspects related to establishing hubs in rural areas were the major highlight of the program - the learnings from this have been absolutely instrumental in effectively…

Interview by Robbert van de Waerdt, policy advisor youth for Oxfam Novib. September 2017. Carin Boersma does not shy away from controversies. She does not uncritically accept contemporary trends. Microfinance? Better be careful! Transferable skills? No, very focused practical training is much more effective! And instead of connecting to existing value chains,…

On 12 October E-Motive will give a workshop at the Partos Innovation Festival. In their workshop, E-Motive expert Ronald van Moorten and Utrecht University researcher Maartje Willemijn Smits will show participants the unique method of E-Motive. With the Oxfam country teams Pakistan and Bangladesh E-Motive is currently testing its collaborative…

E-Motive just concluded Step 1 Context Analysing and Step 2 Solutions Finding of our current project. Utrecht University has been monitoring and evaluating our process all this time. They gave a presentation on 15 May to the Management Team of Empower Youth for Work and E-Motive with the first results,…

In the Empower Youth for Work project we have finalised step 2, Solutions finding. After a careful investigation the team of experts have found a lot of interesting solutions. Many had great qualities, but they were not always completely suitable for the context of the project. The team of expert made…

In the second week of April the Empower Youth for Work teams of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia came to The Hague (The Netherlands) for a leaders meeting. On April 6 we had our rural Hubs session in which we discussed the challenges and solutions for setting up rural Hubs. We already…

We'd like to present you the updated Theory of Change for a new project between Europe and the Global South about the polarization of migrants. We are excited about this project and hopefully the EC DEAR will be as well. Currently we are designing and writing the full proposal. We'll keep you informed!      …