Launched in 2012 with the support of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Tunisia Works is a two-year program designed to build the capacity of local organizations and institutions to support high-quality youth employability, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement projects in four regions across the country.

Drawing on IYF’s global experience in youth workforce development programming, Tunisia Works strengthens local organizations and improves the employment prospects of Tunisian youth. Through IYF’s tested alliance-based approach, the initiative brings together key community stakeholders from the public, private, and civil society sectors to assess challenges facing youth and to develop coordinated strategies to address those challenges. Tunisia Works will also create unique opportunities for youth to be engaged in these local alliances—tapping young Tunisians’ vitality, energy, and creativity to contribute to positive change in their own lives and the lives of their peers.