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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 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

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

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?

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.

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

Youths Do Collective Collectiva Joven A research-action project aimed at supporting production-oriented youth groups in the outskirts of São Paulo and Buenos Aires By Ana Miranda 
 Social Researcher

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.

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.

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.

Analytical framework This proposed research intends to reach objectives 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).

Outcomes • Structuring articulation mechanisms among the organizations that amalgamate young people, the State and the productive sector (companies and trade unions) with the aim of 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 organizations and the true needs of vulnerable young people.

Many thanks!

Entrepreneurs face the employment of young people living in violent contexts in El Salvador An analysis of socio-labor trajectories and business culture By Guadalupe Leiva Choriego 
 Research and Development Manager

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".

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 Project Beneficiary 
 Young People Creating a Future is located in one of the most violent cities “ of the country and is also the third city to I belonged to the English receive family remittances. The research course of the Young People project, carried out by the IDRC, with Creating a Future Project. I signed up without knowing FLACSO, will show the experience of the that it would take me participants in our program. They surprises that I would never themselves can describe the main steps think, because we have the that have been most useful at the thought that nobody cares personal and work level, how they felt about our dreams. I found supported by the staff and the support good people in FUSALMO, who wanted to help me, they were given to successfully complete although they are not your their training process in FUSALMO. family, but they act as such.

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 "They help me to improve 
 my English skills" social conditions are difficult. “ I studied English for Call Center in the Young Creating a Future Project, I'm from Soyapango. I This research of the program, never imagined that I could will show with the testimonies of achieve my dreams of getting a job at a Call Center, thanks to the young people who have gone FUSALMO that dream became through the program, that it is possible. My dream was to be able to study English as a possible, with will, effort and second option to get a job and dedication to fulfill dreams and continue my professional studies, but I did not have achieve goals. enough resources to do them.

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 of 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.

The Socio-Labor Program Life Cycle of the labor Insertion Process 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.