Youth Employability Skills Network

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USAID launched its five-year project, the Youth Employability Skills (YES) Network, to help young people gain the necessary skills to participate in a modern and rapidly changing economy.  The YES Network links Employment Service Agencies, secondary schools, and youth-focused non-governmental organizations, to provide students and unemployed youth with career coaching and guidance,  training in soft skills such as teamwork, communication and leadership, and work-based experience such as internships, practical work and summer work. The project will build the capacity of Network members to better connect students and unemployed youth with job opportunities. 

The YES Network will also set up councils, led by local governments, that will bring together employers, educators, NGOs and Municipalities, with the goal of better matching the skills required in the local labor market with those being developed in youth by the educational system.  Strumica, Bitola and Tetovo are the three municipalities where this project will operate in its first year. Ultimately, the project will work with ten municipalities across Macedonia.