Latin America & the Caribbean

In alignment with our global dedication to the economic and social integration of underserved youth, our work in Antigua and Barbuda focused on helping young people, and particularly young men, succeed. 

Starting in 2002, we built alliances and supporting scalable solutions for youth leadership and workforce readiness in Argentina. 

In Belize, we focused on connecting low-income youth with employability skills and training. 

Having worked here with more than a dozen international donors since 2000, we established ourselves as an experienced and trusted partner for positive youth development, particularly youth employability, in Brazil. 

Together with our partners, we took an innovative approach to addressing the challenges faced by young people in Chile.

We implemented three of our major initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean—New Employment Opportunities (NEO), entra21, and Obra—in Colombia. 

As part of our YouthActionNet® Global Network, Costa Rica celebrates and fosters social innovation.

Our initiatives here have helped young people get jobs and live healthy lives, and we’ve strengthened how local organizations serve them. 

Through our award-wining entra21 employability initiative, we equipped “hard to hire” youth here with the right training to meet employer needs in the food service and hospitality industries. 

Our work in El Salvador has supported the inclusion of marginalized youth and offered young people an alternative to violence and gangs. 

Through our Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP), we offered marginalized young people in Grenada a holistic way of securing work and regaining hope. 

We chose Guatemala as one of three regional hubs for our Obra initiative, which focused on building multi-sector partnerships to increase support for youth at risk and make youth a policy priority.  

In Honduras, our game-changing employability initiative entra21 connected underserved young people with in-demand vocational and life skills to secure jobs. 

Through programs such as Obra and the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP), we built multi-sector alliances in Jamaica. 

Through extensive experience and research, we are delivering solutions that connect disadvantaged young men and women in Mexico with in-demand skills and jobs and offer alternatives to dangerous activity. 

Here in Nicaragua, we helped connect youth who are considered harder to hire with the skills to succeed in the jobs employers are looking to fill.

For more than a decade, our initiatives New Employment Opportunities (NEO), entra21, and EquipYouth prepared youth in Panama with the skills to secure jobs in growth sectors. 

Through New Employment Opportunities (NEO), we worked across sectors to create an alliance of Paraguayan organizations and build local capacity to serve youth with employability training and services. 

Every major initiative we’ve led in Latin America has included Peru. 

Here in Saint Lucia, we provided market-relevant training for youth at risk through our Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP), Planning for Life, and Obra initiatives.

To address the skills gap here in Uruguay, we focused on helping young people build in-demand technical and life skills. 

We started our work in Venezuela in 2001, through entra21.