Veliko Gradiste, June 16 – Fifteen Veliko Gradiste youths interested in the tourism will gain their first job in the industry through a public-private partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Economic Security Program, the Municipality of Veliko Gradiste, Silver Lake Resort and the Skills Company. The partnership contract will be signed at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Silver Lake Resort.
Veliko Gradiste and USAID will fund tourism skills training for 30 young people. Silver Lake Resort will employ the top 15 students. This first public-private partnership in Veliko Gradiste is a clear sign of the community’s commitment to implementing its Youth Entrepreneurship Action Plan (YEAP), a strategic document empowering local Youth Offices to reduce youth unemployment in their communities. Increasing youth employment is also one of the main goals of USAID activities in Serbia.
Veliko Gradiste, June 16 – Fifteen Veliko Gradiste youths interested in the tourism will gain their first job in the industry through a public-private partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Economic Security Program, the Municipality of Veliko Gradiste, Silver Lake Resort and the Skills Company. The partnership contract will be signed at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Silver Lake Resort.
Veliko Gradiste and USAID will fund tourism skills training for 30 young people. Silver Lake Resort will employ the top 15 students. This first public-private partnership in Veliko Gradiste is a clear sign of the community’s commitment to implementing its Youth Entrepreneurship Action Plan (YEAP), a strategic document empowering local Youth Offices to reduce youth unemployment in their communities. Increasing youth employment is also one of the main goals of USAID activities in Serbia.
“USAID’s Youth Entrepreneurship Action Plan activity was designed to achieve results like the ones we are witnessing today in Veliko Gradiste,” said Michael Pillsbury, director of USAID’s Economic Security Program. “YEAPs are a part of USAID’s multifaceted activities to reduce youth unemployment and improve economic stability in Serbia, and we are happy to see they are doing exactly that.”
Pillsbury, Veliko Gradiste Mayor Dragan Milić, and representatives of the Silver Lake Resort Company and training provider Skills Company will speak at the contract signing.
USAID’s Economic Security Program has helped 23 Youth Offices throughout Serbia develop their YEAPs, which offer specific, near-term actions to develop local youth entrepreneurship and employment opportunities.
USAID also provided marketing and leadership skills training to Youth Office Coordinators from 97 of the country’s 114 Youth Offices; consequent entrepreneurship trainings organized by USAID-trained Youth Office Coordinators were delivered to more than 1,500 young adults to help them start or strengthen a new business. These USAID activities shape a more dynamic and informed workforce to improve the economic stability and security in Serbia.
All the activities of the USAID Economic Security Program support implementation of the “National Youth Strategy” of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. They are carried out in cooperation with the country’s Ministry of Youth and Sport and enable young people to obtain special knowledge and skills necessary to compete in the modern business environment.