Winners Announced for Young Women Transform Prize

On September 18, Michelle Bekkering, E3 Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator announced eight winners of the Young Women Transform Prize, a partnership between USAID, Volvo Group, and Standard Chartered to provide small grants in support of youth-led and youth-serving organizations in developing countries addressing barriers to young women’s employment. The winners include youth-led and youth-serving organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Nepal, Colombia, and Peru. The Awardees will implement their programs over the course of the next year and results will be shared out in September 2019.

Read about the winners.