USAID Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

I Inactive

Key Information

USAID Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze was a 5-year youth employment project (December 2016-December 2021) that provided 40,000 out of school youth—34,000 new youth and 6,000 Akazi Kanoze alumni—with market-relevant employability skills by scaling up successful Akazi Kanoze interventions across 25 districts countrywide, using a series of innovations that enabled more youth to participate in Rwanda’s continued economic growth.  There was a strong focus on female participation in the training and an emphasis on women’s empowerment and gender integration. The representation of women in HDAK reflects both success from HDAK in intentionally targeting female participants, as well as interest from female youth in participating due to the lack of wage- or self-employment opportunities relative to men. Around 60-70% of training participants were women, thus benefiting more from the HDAK activity because they comprise a larger percentage, but there was a 7% difference in employment by sex, with more men employed after HDAK training. Anecdotally this is affected by motherhood and gendered cultural norms.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Rwanda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2016 - 2021

Partner(s)

Connexus Credit Union, Souktel

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Youth, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys out of school, Girls out of school, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All out of school

School Level

  • Vocational

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Tim Haskell
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)