Hope '87 Bangladesh

— theme: Youth Employment, Youth Employment Policies and Programmes, Youth Enterprise, Skills for Youth, Green Youth, Child Labour and Youth Employment, Most vulnerable Youth

— country: Asia, South Asia, Bangladesh

An Austrian supported project in which young people are encouraged to show self-initiative and to realize their own ideas of small and medium scale, locally-developed projects creating training and employment for themselves and other young people. Hope '87 Bangladesh works with both children and youth.

Affiliation

NGO

Contact No.

(+880) 29358651

Address

Mohd. Rezaul Karim, Branch Office Manager,
15, New Eskaton, 
Gaus Nager, 
Dhaka 1000, 
Bangladesh

Email Address

hope87bd@gmail.com

Website

http://www.hope87bd.org

1. Source of funding

AGIRE, SONNE, Don Bosco, EU, Austrian Government

2. Mission and Objectives

To counter the global problem of youth unemployment and its political, economic and social consequences by means of financial and technical assistance in the framework of direct or indirect youth training and employment programmes, both in urban and rural areas; to increase international awareness and attain synergy effects through alliances and especially cooperation with the United Nations.

HOPE’87-Bangladesh works for creation youth employment and self employment opportunities through skilled training, providing information and resources. HOPE’87 also work on disaster and natural calamities by providing emergency relief and rehabilitation.HOPE’87-Bangladesh always encourages and motivates young people to involve community development voluntary activities in passing their leisure time as out of school work.

3. Areas of work relating to youth employment

Skills development; Enterprise development; Working children; Social protection; LMIS; and Green jobs.

4. Partners and areas of partnerships

Austrian Government

5. Potential or existing partnership with the ILO

6. Successful youth employment interventions

     1. Vocational, technical and professional training.
     2. Management training and career development in the informal sector.
     3. Promotion of small enterprise through management training, star up and investment credit.
     4. Support of public and private information and consulting bodies and networking system.
     5. Diversifying, stabilising, and improving ecologically sustainable production through adequate resource protection, education and specialized training of young small scale farmers.

APYouthNetAsia-Pacific Youth Employment NetworkILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific