Project
Description
95 unemployed youth will receive employment life-skills
and basic introduction to vocational training in Borama, Awadal region,
Somaliland. For each student, work experience will take place in
one of 4 community sites, depending upon his/her chosen trade. The
work experience program will be taught by local professionals at the site
and life skills training and work orientation by a local organization.
Project Purpose
The project purpose is to introduce
life-skills necessary for work and provide work experience to unemployed
youth, orphans and disabled groups among young Somali who have been traumatized
by their experience.
The project will provide work life
skills, work experience, knowledge and skills to the unemployed youth who
are part of a repatriated community. This will increase job opportunities
and a better life style that will reduce poverty.
The project will also play an important
role in putting new impetus to the revival of the broken social system
affected by the past civil wars.
SCERDOS proposed vocational enterprise
training, which will ensure gender equity, directly and rapidly answers
the needs of the following areas:
Generation of job opportunities
for
returning youth from refugee
camps.
Provide a variety of marketable
skills
training to unemployed youth.
Increase employment of vocational
training graduates.
Improve the quality of teaching
and
vocational training by engaging
local
NGO partners and funding
agencies in
an effective vocational
training program.
Increase employment and vocational
training opportunities to
a greater
number of young women.
Increase employment and vocational
training opportunities to
a greater
number of youth with disabilities.
Sustain quality of programming
by
introducing evaluation,
providing
problem-solving meetings,
and teaching
conflict resolution strategies.
Implementing partners will provide
information on local markets,
and will
encourage student work experience
opportunities by potential
employers.
All trainers providing work experience
will receive orientation
and training
about job seeking, and small
business
management skills.
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Youth will acquire tools necessary for
skilled work. Trainees will
be loaned
necessary tools or supplies
upon
graduation.
Existing local professionals/trades
people
will be encouraged to initiate
long-term
training opportunities to
youth through
this project. Training sites
will be paid a
fee-for-service and provided
support to
assist in teaching methodologies.
Project Rationale
Unprecedented population growth of this country, movement
of Somali people from isolated rural areas into the large and crowded urban
environment due to past civil wars, resulted in increased poverty, orphans
and unskilled disabled people. The young generation is the most vulnerable
group affected. Past civil wars caused the collapse of all social infrastructures,
especially for the school age group. Among this generation, disabled groups
have less access to activities and other opportunities in the community.
The overall goal of the project is to relieve unemployment
by enabling 95 young returnees of both sexes in Awdal region to acquire
employable skills through vocational training. This will satisfy needs
of young people (including youth with disabilities) as well as the market
demand. Thus, the main objectives of the project are:
Development objectives
To reduce low socio-economic status of the population
To enhance community development status through
improvement of social infrastructures and
their quality
services.
Specific objectives
To empower youth: Somali societys hope for the
future.
To create job opportunities for all youth, regardless
of
sex and ability, by providing skills and
further
knowledge and employment life skills to
95 refugee
youth who have returned to the area.
To provide capacity building workshops to SCERDOs
southern partners.
To improve employment opportunities and training for
disabled youth returnees in the community.
To provide to unemployed youth basic business &
small enterprise development and management
skills
through a vocational training program to
enable them
sell themselves to the labor market.
To reduce overall poverty within the young unskilled
generation.
To enhance over all community status.
SCERDO develops prototype for vocational training in
other communities.
EBVT Training Programs
1. Health-care Assistance: Midwifery and Nursing
2. Tailoring
3. Computer Skills/Typing
4. Carpentry/Furniture Making
5. Auto-mechanic
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