UN-Habitat Urban Impact Podcast - The Youth Build Somalia [Ep 4] by UN-Habitat worldwide

Rajo means hope, and the podcast is a refreshingly optimistic insight into the potential and ambition of the youth in this country. It’s a lesser-known narrative – this story is one of a country rebuilding.

Project Rajo was launched in November 2018 in three Somali cities: Mogadishu, Garowe and Kismayo, to provide youth with construction, entrepreneurship, ICT and life skills training. And despite just 11 per cent of the construction workforce in Somalia being women, half of the participants in the workshop were women.

Project Rajo is a component of the Somali Strengthening Institutions for Public Works Project. The project is funded by the African Development Bank and it is implemented by UNOPS and UN-Habitat Youth and Livelihoods Unit in collaboration with UN-Habitat's Somalia Programme in collaboration with the Youth and Livelihoods Unit. Project Rajo is implemented in coordination with the Ministry of Public Works, Reconstruction and Housing in Jubaland and Puntland, Somalia.