Dalbile Youth Initiative Is a Socio-economic initiative to empower Somali youth with skills and resources to unlock their full potentials. The program contributes to three results, stabilization and local Governance, inclusive and sustainable growth, and protection and graduation of the most vulnerable. The program’s primary focus is employment and job creation but goes beyond narrow skills and entrepreneurship training by fostering an enabling environment for positive youth development that improves youth lives. The priority target groups of this project are young people aged 15-25 years, as well as women. This action contributes to objective two of ILED, namely “revitalize and expand the local economy with a focus on livelihood enhancement, job creation, and broad-based inclusive growth, with a particular focus on opportunities for women and youth.” The program further states that “in order to foster stability and sustainable of women and youth, as well as other excluded and less powerful groups.”

iRise Hub executes activities under this project through the national execution modality, in which partnership is developed with the Federal Government, Federal Members state, regional administrations, non-Governmental organization, youth associations and community leaders to ensure smooth implementation of the action, Under the overall coordination of the Ministry of Planning, Investment and Economic Development.