Digital Jobs for Youth in Fragile, Conflict and Violence (FCV) Settings : Lessons from the Click-On Kaduna Pilot

This Brief is part of the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Knowledge Brief series focusing on the design and implementation of youth employment programs. This Brief builds on S4YE’s 2018 annual report, Digital Jobs for Youth: Young Women in the Digital Economy, which highlighted new and emerging strategies for practitioners designing digital jobs interventions for youth. In this Knowledge Brief, authors examine strategies the World Bank’s ‘Digital Jobs in Nigeria’ pilot project team adopted to help vulnerable youth in conflict-affected areas to leverage employment opportunities in the digital economy. The pilot provides training for unemployed and under-employed youth in Kaduna State to pursue digital jobs, including online freelancing and digital entrepreneurship. The authors specifically highlight the team’s responses to several challenges, including: managing security threats; navigating limited ICT infrastructure; building a local tech ecosystem; adapting to restrictive sociocultural norms; and integrating local knowledge.