Youth Empowerment for Green Job
The country is facing problem related to youth unemployment which will become more acute in the next decade as the labor force in the region is also expected to grow by around 2.1 percent a year, warns the International Labor Organization (ILO).

According to the report" Report on the Nepal Labor Force Survey" published by the Department of Statistics, Nepal in 2008, a large number of young people are semi unemployed and unemployed. In Nepal, more than 2 million youth are totally unemployed, according to studies. Nearly 49.9 percent urban youth and 32.2 percent rural youth are unemployed. In 2009, more than 2 million 52 thousand 8 hundred youth above the age of 15 are completely unemployed which is 42 percentages more than the previous year.

As the state fails to chalk out proper strategies to provide jobs, the problem is gaining urgency day by day. The increasing rate of unemployment has turned the youths into a frustrated lot. This may even encourage them to engage in destructive activities like crime, social unrest and terrorism. Likewise, the country has also experienced massive environmental problems and degradation like deforestation, soil degradation, climate change etc. Taking these issues into consideration, TNW has come up with the project titled "Youth Empowerment for Green Job" to address these issues.

TNW has a goal of empowering 500 youths in the year 2010 for youth's economic development and environment conservation. TNW is launching this project with the grant assistance by the UN-HABITAT Youth Fund and Ministry of Youth and Sports.