Launched in 2009, Youth:Work Jordan is a collaborative, community-based initiative to promote marketable job skills, improve social services, and expand civic engagement opportunities among some of Jordan’s most underserved youth. With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, IYF and Jordan’s Ministry of Social Development are working together with local NGOs and youth to address the needs and aspirations of young people, ages 15 to 24. For the first two years, Youth:Work Jordan will work in 12 neighborhoods across 6 localities nationwide. This model will later be replicated in additional communities through the duration of the five-year, US$30 million program.