Positive Youth Development lies at the heart of Jabi Consulting.
Critically, we help youth gain access to STEM and digital programming, equipping them with the technical skills needed to compete in today’s workforce marketplace. We also support youth entrepreneurs in growing their small businesses, who in-turn look to hire from their own communities and networks – furthering our mission to increase youth employment in MENA.
Jabi Consulting's team has been managing positive youth developent (PYD) projects across the Middle East and North Africa for over 20 years. We partner with INGOs and local organizations to provide youth across the MENA region with:
capacity strengthening
entrepreneurship training
workforce readiness
financial literacy
Our Work
We have supported several youth and local capacity-building projects funded by FCDO to empower youth and women in northeast Syria. Recently, we completed a comprehensive assessment and evaluation for the State Department’s education stabilization intervention in northeast Syria. We conducted assessment to identify youth needs, gaps, and challenges in Jordan and how to align labor market needs with the training and education sector. We designed and implemented a youth civic engagement and empowerment program in the West Bank and Gaza, focusing on applying youth service learning and community engagement to address youth challenges and turn them into opportunities through in-kind and cash grants. The project served more than 100,000 youth and women.
West Bank & Gaza
Jordan
Our team led a comprehensive assessment to inform a large-scale youth political and civic engagement projects in Egypt right after the revolution. Egypt
We conducted extensive evaluations and assessments that led to large-scale youth empowerment, employment, and civic participation in Morocco, especially in remote governorates and the north. Morocco
Tunisia
In Tunisia, we worked to understand the barriers faced by youth in interior governorates and empower them economically.
Libya
Our team led a large-scale assessment of the youth sector in Libya to identify areas of opportunity and intervention after the collapse of the Gaddafi regime. Syria
Past Projects
Jabi Consulting led the design of nine case studies for the World Bank’s MENA economist office on barriers of youth entrepreneurship in the Middle East. We drafted these studies using human-centered design to understand how the contestability and State-Owned Enterprises impact entry and exist to the market across the MENA region.
The World Bank
International Labor Organization
United States Agency for International Development
Our team was part of the Iraq USAID Tatweer project to empower public servants in Iraq and bring new qualified government staff to lead changes.
Led the design of a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) strategy for Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.
