Education for Employment (EFE)
Education for Employment (EfE) was founded in 2002 with the goal of creating economic opportunities for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa. It does this through demand-driven skills training, job placements, and by supporting youth to become self-employed or start micro-enterprises. EfE’s network spans Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen, with global offices in the UAE, US and Spain.
- Organisation type NGO
- Year founded 2002
- Headquartered Washington DC
- Registration United States
- Website https://efe.org/
Related sustainable development goals
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Development
- Economic development
- Employment
- Job training
- Job creation and workforce developement
- Business and industry
- Entrepreneurship
Education
- Vocational education
- Student services
- Graduate and professional
- Higher education
Humanitarian
- Youth development
- Youth mentoring
Focus populations
- Immigrants and migrants
- Refugees and displaced people
- Students
- Unemployed people
- Young adults
Focus geographies
Middle East
- Jordan
- Yemen
- United Arab Emirates
- Palestine
North Africa
- Morocco
- Egypt
- Tunisia
Financials
Funding model
- Foundation-administered programme awards
- Grants to organisations
Operations
Key staff
- EFE-Egypt, Nora Abou El Seoud
- EFE-Global, Amr Abdallah
- EFE-Global, Jasmine Nahhas di Florio
- EFE-Global, Dima Najim
- EFE-Global, Andrew Baird
- EFE-Jordan, Ghadeer Khuffash
- EFE-Maroc, Jihane Lahbabi-Berrada
- EFE-Palestine, Saro Nakashian
- EFE-Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Al Ghamdi
- EFE-Tunisie, Lamia Chaffai
- EFE-UAE, Dima Najim
- EFE-Yemen, Ameen Alqadri
Board members
- board member, Samer Khoury
- board member, Isam Salah
- board member, Nayla Rizk
- board member, Mohammad Shishtawi
- board member, Carol Bellamy
- board member, Alton Frye
- board member, Abed El-Jaouni
- board member, Shibley Telhami
- board member, Mary Dedinsky
- board member, Yorick van Slingelandt
- board member, Andrea Brentan
- board member, Anis Aclimandos
- board member, Karthik Venkataraman
- board member, Tariq Hassan
- chair of the board, Ronald Bruder
Contact details
- +1 202 464 5218
- info@efe.org
- https://efe.org/
- EFE-Global 1660 L Street NW, suite 460 Washington, DC 20036 USA