Future Skills and Jobs for Armenia’s Rural Youth project seeks to enhance opportunities of employability as well as promote self-employment and entrepreneurship amongst youth in the regions of Armenia.

The project strives to reach out to the most vulnerable youth groups in rural areas of Armenia with an offer of ambitious economic opportunities and new employment frameworks. The project will cover four especially vulnerable regions of Armenia, namely Lori, Shirak, Tavush and Gegharkuniq and will help with:

1. needs assessment and identification of future job opportunities;
2. agile skill building among large groups of young people, especially – but not only –  in the IT sector
3. set up of regional resource centers to ensure self-employment and startup opportunities for local youth – building on the results of other UNDP and other UN agencies’ projects.

The project is supported by the Russian Federation and implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure.