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Besieged Lives Vidas Sitiadas Youth Engagement, Economic Opportunities and Violence in Central America By Fidel de Rooy Social Researcher & Communication Specialist 9 projects in 7 Latin American Countries MXICO 2 projects, 4

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Besieged Lives

Youth Engagement, Economic Opportunities  and Violence in Central America

Vidas Sitiadas

By Fidel de Rooy  Social Researcher & Communication Specialist

SLIDE 2 9 projects in 7  Latin American Countries MÉXICO 2 projects, 4 partners: DJN, Coparmex, COLEF, FICOSEC. EL SALVADOR 3 projects, 4 partners: Cristosal, FUSALMO, Fusades, Galsswing. COSTA RICA 1 project, 1 partner: FLACSO Costa Rica. PANAMÁ 1 project, 1 partner: Jesús Luz de Oportunidades COLOMBIA 1 project, 1 partner: Universidad del Valle ARGENTINA 1 project, 1 partner: FLACSO Argentina BRAZIL 1 project, 1 partner: Universidade Federal de São Carlos

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3-Component Strategy

Academic Research | Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
Policy Impact | Karla Salazar
Communications Strategy | Fidel de Rooy

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Soyapango and Los Guido

Violence phenomena extended along the region.
3 critical factors of articulation:

1. Impact on workforce mobility. 2. Stigmatization of territories and people. 3. Labor vs. Transgressive logics.

Can entrepreneurship survive extortions?

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What to do?

States must recover the control over territories.
Change the focus from stigmatized people to

stigmatized territories.

Extend the battle to the media: represente unstigmatized

people and territories.

Explore violence and extortion resilient self-employment

alternatives: social-solidarity and community based entrepreneurship.

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Visit Us

Vidas Sitiadas/Besieged Lives  A website dedicated to the regional initiative  www.vidasitiadas.com | proyectoidrc@flacso.or.cr Thanks very much!

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Youths Do Collective

A research-action project aimed at supporting production-oriented youth groups in the outskirts of São Paulo and Buenos Aires

Collectiva Joven

By Ana Miranda  Social Researcher

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The proposal

The proposal was originally presented to the joint call “Innovations for marginalized youth economic inclusion” launched by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC). It was made by a consortium which included the Federal University of Sao Carlos, the organization Acao Educativa from Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO Argentina), and Hogar de Cristo Foundation, located in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The objective

Develop and implement a scalable initiative based on support evidence to the economic inclusion

and destigmatization of young people from vulnerable communities.

Specifically, we seek:
to conduct research and create a data base which includes a diagnosis of the socioeconomic

condition of young people at risk as well as a mapping and analysis of micro enterprises, cooperatives and other local initiatives implemented by youth organizations.

to execute the pilot program called “Collectiva Joven”, consisting of a support center for youth

economic opportunities and run by local youth organizations.

to identify solutions to benefit young women and revise traditional gender roles.
to support a network of youth associations and companies in collaboration with governments

and civil society, and also public-private associations.

to foster the economic activities of young people. to contribute to political debates about

national and local programs, and the efforts made to approach economic exclusion among the most unprivileged young people.

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Analytical framework

The hypothesis supports the

centrality of community actions, and highlights the failure of entrepreneurship understood as individual action.

It works with the concept of

intersectionality in a research that addresses the factors associated with violence in a multidimensional way.

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Analytical framework

This proposed research intends to reach

bjectives through different strategies that

combine both research and hands-on work.

The first stage is based on a qualitative

research strategy focused on identifying and analyzing actions and initiatives concerned with the generation of work and income by collective groups and youth organizations through an inter- peer research methodology.

As part of a second stage, one pilot

testing project will be implemented. This project includes the creation of a support center for the productive inclusion of young people (Collectiva Joven).

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Outcomes

Structuring articulation mechanisms among

the organizations that amalgamate young people, the State and the productive sector (companies and trade unions) with the aim

f developing social and employment-based

inclusion strategies, enhancing institutional skills oriented to working as part of a netted community.

Better understanding of characteristics,

problems and challenges of the initiatives undertaken by extremely vulnerable young people in Argentina.

Greater understanding of the gap between

the “offer” made by governmental

rganizations and the true needs of

vulnerable young people.

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Many thanks!

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Entrepreneurs face the employment

f young people living in violent

contexts in El Salvador

By Guadalupe Leiva Choriego  Research and Development Manager An analysis of socio-labor trajectories and business culture

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The project

Creation of evidence on job opportunities for young people in

contexts of violence.

The Socio-labor Program of FUSALMO.
Obstacles faced by young people to be economically included

through employment.

The role of entrepreneurs: "business culture".

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Creation of evidence on job opportunities for young people in contexts of violence

In the last five years, the FUSALMO Socio-labor Program, specifically called "Young People Creating a Future", considered a successful program, where 350 young people living in violent contexts have obtained a job. FUSALMO is located in one of the most violent cities

f the country and is also the third city to

receive family remittances. The research project, carried out by the IDRC, with FLACSO, will show the experience of the participants in our program. They themselves can describe the main steps that have been most useful at the personal and work level, how they felt supported by the staff and the support they were given to successfully complete their training process in FUSALMO. Project Beneficiary  Young People Creating a Future

“

I belonged to the English course of the Young People Creating a Future Project. I signed up without knowing that it would take me surprises that I would never think, because we have the thought that nobody cares about our dreams. I found good people in FUSALMO, who wanted to help me, although they are not your family, but they act as such.

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Creation of evidence on job opportunities for young people in contexts of violence

Young People Creating a Future is a program that bets on youth talent, and offers opportunities, especially to young people whose economic, family and social conditions are difficult. This research of the program, will show with the testimonies of the young people who have gone through the program, that it is possible, with will, effort and dedication to fulfill dreams and achieve goals. "They help me to improve  my English skills" I studied English for Call Center in the Young Creating a Future Project, I'm from Soyapango. I never imagined that I could achieve my dreams of getting a job at a Call Center, thanks to FUSALMO that dream became

possible. My dream was to be

able to study English as a second option to get a job and continue my professional studies, but I did not have enough resources to do them.

“

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The Socio-Labor Program

The Socio-Labor Program, specifically “Young People Creating a Future” is a program of technical training that lasts for 6 months with an average of 80 hours of training that includes themes

f life skills, work orientation, labor

intermediation and follow-up after getting a formal job. It is aimed at young people from 18 to 29 years old, living in Soyapango or municipalities in conditions of violence. FUSALMO through its programs seeks to prepare young people with the necessary tools and knowledge, so that, through alliances with different companies, they can choose a job and improve their quality of life and their family.

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The Socio-Labor Program

The Program has more than 7 years of experience, where the offer has been made more flexible in such a way that the participants increase and the desertions decrease, that is what we have achieved in recent years. We seek to meet with employers what are the job demands they have. In this way our most successful offers, have been formed in English for call centers, customer services and restaurants and sales. The Program favors the participation of women, we have a participation in our programs of 44% women and 56% men. The number of women was more, but most of them, had to do domestic care and this is a limitation for women to be technically trained and get a job. Of the 100% trained we have 47% of those hired, greater than the municipality's labor office that achieves 35% of global employment, not only youth. Life Cycle of the labor Insertion Process

SLIDE 20 Obstacles faced by young people to be economically included through employment According to our experience and what our young people who participate in the program tell us and it also coincides with an investigation from the IDRC called VIDAS SITIADAS (they involve a neighborhood of Soyapango in the investigation), where they indicated violence, marginalization and youth, as a barrier. these aspects hindered labor economic processes of young people. Violence is a factor that, at the territorial level, restricts the mobility of young people to move to their jobs, through the territorial domain of the gangs; On the other hand, living in the neighborhoods designated as the most violent at the country level is a problem for contracting by employers, they do not hire them.

SLIDE 21 Obstacles faced by young people to be economically included through employment In El Salvador, being young is a problem. Young people is stigmatized, for example, they say that youth is equal to violence, young people do not have dreams, they are lazy and not even their families trust them. A complete negative social classification. It is a difficult environment to their develop, to this, is added family violence and limited economic conditions. Women have it harder in terms of employment, from very young they are charged with domestic work and with that, the time to access training and professional development is limited. Entrepreneurs do not hire young people from violent neighborhoods, it is within the labor recruitment policies. “Thanks to the FUSALMO course, I won everything  I have now” Ingrid Margarita Martínez Montoya  25yo

SLIDE 22 The role of entrepreneurs:  "business culture" Employers tend to stigmatize young residents in cities characterized by violence and gang presence, limiting their real economic inclusion

ptions, both in men and women.

The study currently being conducted with IDRC -FLACSO AND FUSALMO, wants to investigate through interviews with businessmen, what are their opinions about employing young people from these neighborhoods and to know if there is truly a stigmatization regarding these young people. In FUSALMO, we have allied entrepreneurs, who agree to hire young people trained in our programs and thus contribute to young people from popular neighborhoods begin their journey to the world of work.

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Many thanks!