Youth Employment Project in Egypt Receives Teamwork Award

“Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People – Tackling the Challenge Together” project receives “Teamwork” award in this years’ ILO recognition award competition

News | 06 May 2019
6 May, GENEVA – The Youth Employment Project “Decent jobs for Egypt’s Young people – Tackling the Challenge Together” has won the “Teamwork” award in this year’s ILO recognition award competition. The project was among six winners in different categories chosen from among 700 nominees, and is funded by the Government of Canada.

The award recognizes the successful effort by the project team in Egypt to achieve outstanding results through effective teamwork and collaboration in a key area of the ILO’s work.

“This team in Egypt focuses on a question that is essential for the ILO’s work around the world: How to enable more and better-quality jobs for young people,” said Moussa Oumarou, Deputy Director-General for Field Operations who introduced the nomination. “In collaboration with many departments, the Turin Centre, ministries, international organizations, as well as civil society and private-sector organizations, our colleagues have demonstrated clearly a strong motivation to develop capacities and better policies for youth employment.”

The Employment Policy Department congratulates the team, thanks all members for their efforts and wishes them good luck – this project will continue to influence many of our efforts!

The team:
Wessam Salama ABD RABOU, Driver, DWT/CO-Cairo
Salah Mohamed ABDEL BAKI, Driver, DWT/CO-Cairo
Yomna Saber ABOUZEID, Admin and Finance Assistant, DWT/CO-Cairo
Jonas BAUSCH, Technical Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation, DWT/CO-Cairo
Basma Mahmoud EL NAFADY, Project Assistant, DWT/CO-Cairo
Mahmoud Ali ELSAYED, Driver, DWT/CO-Cairo
Onsi Felly GEORGIOUS, National Project Coordinator, DWT/CO-Cairo
Salma Abd ElKereem MOHAMMED, Finance and Admin Clerk, DWT/CO-Cairo
Amal Medhat Aly MOWAFY, CTA, DWT/CO-Cairo
Nader NAGUIB, Admin and Finance Clerk, DWT/CO-Cairo
El Sayed Mostafa RAMADAN, Project Coordination Assistant, DWT/CO-Cairo
Hebatallah Mohamed RASHED, National Project Coordinator, DWT/CO-Cairo
Perihan Mohamed TAWFIK, National Project Coordinator, DWT/CO-Cairo
Magdy Adly WAHBA, Training Officer, DWT/CO-Cairo
Jehan Zakaria YACOUB, Project Coordination Assistant, DWT/CO-Cairo
Nawal Aboul Hagag YASSIEN, Project Assistant, DWT/CO-Cairo