Description
The American Innovation and Workforce Advancement Program aims to strengthen workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, and professional skills among Djiboutian youth and emerging professionals. The program will support projects that promote practical hard and soft skills, including digital literacy, STEM, financial literacy, project management, critical thinking, leadership, and career readiness. The program will also advance American innovation, educational engagement, and entrepreneurship, while strengthening long-term people-to-people ties between the United States and Djibouti through workforce development, professional exchange, and economic opportunity.
• Eligible applicants include registered not-for-profit organizations, civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, public and private educational institutions, governmental institutions, and public international organizations.
• The program will support projects that target youth, students, emerging professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, and underserved communities.
• The program will prioritize projects that demonstrate a clear American element and promote American innovation, educational engagement, and entrepreneurship.
• The program will require recipients to submit regular financial and programmatic reports to the Embassy.