The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE) supports market-based, scalable approaches to enable over 200,000 young people to access new or better employment opportunities. In Sudan, the CFYE is supporting 249Startups, Alsalam Factory, and IATL International to create job opportunities for young people in their country.

As part of the CFYE’s technical support to its Sudan portfolio, New Silk Roads provided three days of tailored workshops and one-on-one coaching on:

Operating in fragile and post-conflict markets

AI-assisted writing tools for grants and applications

Impact investment, private funders, and blended finance opportunities

Coaching Sudanese Scaleups