Education For Employment

About Education For Employment

Education For Employment (EFE) is the leading youth employment organization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Our vision is to empower young women and men with skills and opportunities they need to build careers that create a better future.

Operating in the region with the world’s highest youth unemployment rates, we pioneered market-driven skills training for youth that links them directly to job opportunities and the world of work. EFE’s distinctive model has been recognized as one of the world’s most effective social innovations at the World Economic Forum, the UN, and the World Bank. Arabian Business, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, and many more have praised EFE’s work. Read more about EFE at www.efe.org.

EFE's Structure

EFE is a network of locally-run, affiliated non-profit organizations working in the Middle East and North Africa. Since inception in 2006, EFE established affiliated non-profit organizations in seven countries in the MENA region (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen), with global support hubs in the United States, Spain, and the UAE, and a presence in Algeria. Each EFE Affiliate is managed by local staff and governed by a local board of directors made up of accomplished professionals and leaders from various sectors.

EFE’s Global team provides programmatic, fundraising, strategic, and capacity building support to its Affiliates. The relationship between the EFE-Global and EFE’s Affiliates in the MENA region is not a “headquarters / field office” relationship, rather, a partnership relationship between independent non-profit organizations affiliated with each other through EFE’s global network.