F4J’s Intervention
F4J’s intervention focuses on empowering youth through targeted programs that foster leadership, skills development, and social impact.
F4J Financial Instruments
F4J Financial Instruments are innovative funding tools designed to support youth-focused projects through results-based financing and blended capital models.
Finance For Jobs (F4J): Investment in the Economy and Human Capital
F4J is a project for the benefit of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) funded by the World Bank and implemented by the DAI. The project is a public finance mechanism aiming to bolster the Palestinian economy by incentivizing private capital mobilization and job creation in the West Bank and Gaza.
F4J’s Objectives
- Stimulate private capital mobilization by fostering private sector investments.
- Job creation opportunities in the West Bank and Gaza.
F4J’s Financing Instruments
The project adopts two innovative financing instruments to encourage new investments and qualify youth graduates to enter the labor market: Investment Co-Financing Facility (ICF) and Development Impact Bond (DIB).
F4J’s Target Groups:
- Private sector new investments that cannot proceed without public finance support, due to market and institutional failures, in the fields of industry, agriculture, food processing, clean energy, tourism, and high-value-added businesses.
- Palestinian unemployed graduates, particularly youth, of whom 30 percent are women.
