RISE Youth Enterprise Lab
Stage: Funding
A youth economic-empowerment initiative helping disadvantaged and economically excluded young people move from unemployment and underemployment toward market-relevant skills, employment, enterprise and sustainable income.
How we can work together
Partners may sponsor the complete project or agree on a defined phase after reviewing the scope, budget, timeline and reporting plan. Ameliorate Missions will serve as the local implementing partner: coordinating consultations and required approvals, recruitment, training, execution, safeguarding, financial records and progress reports. Responsibilities, payment arrangements and any restrictions will be set out in a written agreement before work begins.
For projects at a planning stage, activities and targets below are proposals. We will publish verified field updates as work progresses.
Contact us to discuss sponsoring this project →Why this project exists
To develop practical pathways through which participating young people can acquire relevant skills, work experience, financial capability, mentorship and access to employment or enterprise opportunities that improve their long-term economic resilience.
Participants will begin with an individual assessment covering interests, existing capabilities, education, barriers to employment and realistic opportunities in the local labour market.
Based on market research, training pathways may include digital skills, trades, technical skills, entrepreneurship, sales, hospitality, logistics, creative industries and other sectors with demonstrated opportunity.
The programme model is:
Assess → Equip → Experience → Employ/Launch → Mentor → Save → Progress.
Training will therefore be connected wherever possible to employers, apprenticeships, customers, enterprise opportunities and continued mentoring rather than ending with certificate issuance.
How partnership helps
For many young people, unemployment is not simply the absence of a job. It can involve limited access to marketable skills, lack of work experience, weak professional networks, insufficient capital, limited career guidance and few opportunities to demonstrate capability.
Short training courses alone do not necessarily change that trajectory.
RISE is being designed to connect skills to actual economic opportunity. Partnership will help create pathways from assessment and training to apprenticeship, employment, enterprise, mentorship and longer-term progression.
What we intend to achieve
As a planned initiative, RISE has no programme impact to report yet. Pilot indicators will include enrolment and completion, competency attainment, apprenticeship placements, employment placements, enterprises launched, income progression, savings behaviour and participant status at defined follow-up intervals.