Latin America & the Caribbean

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

We’ve been building alliances and supporting scalable solutions for youth leadership and workforce readiness in Argentina since 2002. 

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

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

Together with our partners we take an innovative approach to solving the problems youth in Chile confront.

We’ve executed 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 help 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 supports the inclusion of marginalized youth and offers 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 program such as Obra and the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP), we’ve building multi-sector alliances in Jamaica since 2007. 

Through extensive experience and research, we understand how to deliver 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’ve helped connect youth who are considered harder to hire with the skills to succeed in the jobs employers are looking to fill.

Through our initiatives New Employment Opportunities (NEO), entra21, and EquipYouth, we have more than a decade of experience preparing youth in Panama with the skills to secure jobs in growth sectors. 

Through New Employment Opportunities (NEO), we’re working 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’ve been providing 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’ve focused on helping young people build in-demand technical and life skills. 

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