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STRENGTHEN2

Employment impact assessment to maximize job creation in Africa

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Project details

1 August 2020 - 30 April 2025

€6,420,000

European Union

GLO/20/19/EUR

Project team: STRENGTHEN2@ilo.org

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Project background

Given the high levels of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, rising inequalities in many countries, growing population and high levels of inequality, unemployment and underemployment, in particular among young people and women, more and better jobs are an absolute necessity in the region. 

The STRENGTHEN2 project, hosted in the EMPINVEST branch of the ILO’s Employment Policy Department, is a joint initiative of the European Union and the ILO that focuses on job creation through investments. Launched in August 2020, the project is a strategic partnership with the overall goal of leveraging employment impact assessments to promote the creation of more and better jobs in sub-Saharan African countries.

The project pursues two objectives:

  • To enhance the capacity to assess the employment outcomes of EU-funded investments and programmes in sub–Saharan African partner countries.
  • To support African partner countries and EC services to design and finance investments and programs with a relatively rich employment content.

STRENGTHEN2 is scheduled to end in April 2025 and builds on earlier ILO work, more concretely, efforts undertaken as part of the now concluded first STRENGTHEN project. The project collaborates closely with the Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood project (METI), which covers related issues for countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Methodologies in brief

Methodological papers

Credit guarantee schemes, MSME access to finance and labour productivity in Africa

Credit guarantee schemes, MSME access to finance and labour productivity in Africa

A Brief Review of Input-Output Approaches to Employment Impact Assessment

A Brief Review of Input-Output Approaches to Employment Impact Assessment

How to measure the employment impact of guarantees

How to measure the employment impact of guarantees

Credit guarantees: SME access to finance and employment in Africa

Credit guarantees: SME access to finance and employment in Africa

Employment impact assessments in Africa: Application and suitability of local multiplier analysis

Employment impact assessments in Africa: Application and suitability of local multiplier analysis

The enhancement of input-output based employment assessment tools for EU operations in sub-Saharan Africa

The enhancement of input-output based employment assessment tools for EU operations in sub-Saharan Africa

The use of GIS in employment impact assessments

The use of GIS in employment impact assessments

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