Centre de Solidarité Internationaledu Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

Published purpose

This project is part of Global Affairs Canada’s International Youth Internship Program (IYIP), funded by the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy. The IYIP is designed to offer Canadian post-secondary graduates the opportunity to gain professional experience in international development. As part of the project Jeunes stagiaires professionnels engagés, the Centre de solidarité internationale du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in partnership with the Laboratoire d'études et de recherches appliquées sur l'Afrique of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and the Cégep de Jonquière, is sending 85 interns to four countries. They focus on various sectors, such as agro-ecology, collective marketing, community development, the empowerment of young women and girls, rural economic development, processing of non-timber forest products, climate change adaptation, and sustainable natural resource management.