EFE Updates

Join us on May 27th as we come together to empower youth across the MENA region at a time when they need support more than ever. Hear directly from EFE graduates who will join us from the region to share their transformational stories.

EFE's Annual Summit was held in Cairo, Egypt, from October 3rd to 5th. The three-day event brought together EFE's teams from across the network to focus on key priority areas under the theme: Scaling with Quality.

EFE-Tunisie held the closing ceremony for the Greenworks project, a 2-year project funded by Hivos, focused on job training and placement in the Agribusiness sector.

EFE-Maroc hosted a second edition of its Virtual Job Fair held on February 22 and 23, 2023. The event is in line with EFE-Maroc's vision, which is based on promoting the employability of young people and maximizing their chances of successfully integrating the labor market.

EFE-Jordan held the closing ceremony of the “AMAL” project, funded by the French government and AFD - Agence Française de Développement, graduating over 1,300 young men and women.

This project focuses on fast-growing sectors in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt with programming targeting young women in each country to find jobs that require digital skills and knowledge. EFE carried out programming in all three countries to equip 40 Bahraini, 30 Saudi, and 70 Egyptian women with the professional training and connections to employers that are necessary to secure employment opportunities.