FHI 360’s labor market assessment as a tool for adapting interventions to reduce extreme poverty

Tommy Galloway, Cooper Roberts, and Jeffrey Matu

ABSTRACT

This paper examines how FHI 360’s utilization of labor market assessments (LMA) ensures that extremely poor youth (EPY) and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) programming is market-driven and aligned, linking the extreme poor to sustainable livelihood opportunities. The article reviews three LMA case studies from projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia, and South Africa.