Transcript Preparing Youth for Life and Livelihood

Preparing Youth for Life
and Livelihood
Basic Education and Skills Training in Haiti and
Timor Leste
Country Overviews
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Haiti
Population: 8,706,497
Size: 27,750 sq. km
(slightly smaller than MD)
GDP per capita: $1900
Youth unemployment 40%
of youth in labor force
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Timor Leste
Population: 1, 084,971
Size: 15,007 sq. km
(slightly larger than CT)
GDP per capita: $2000
Youth unemployment
47.4% of youth in labor
force
What do youth need?
...But, what is a job?
…And, how can a job “be created”?
Youth Challenges
• Few marketable
skills, minimal
knowledge
• Weak undiversified
economy = stiff
competition for little
gain
• Environment is not
conducive to growth
EQUIP 3’s Answers
Job = a way to earn a sustainable
livelihood
Job Creation =
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preparing youth to be more
competitive in the existing
economy
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creating partnerships with
government, private sector
and local/int’l NGOs through
which low-skilled youth can
gain experience and
opportunity (if not a traditional
job)
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Haiti
2003-2010
13,500 youth ages 15-24
No schooling or primary
school up to third grade
Urban and rural
18 month program
– 12 months NFBE plus
vocational-technical training
– 6 months accompaniment
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Youth micro-enterprise
Continue formal school
Continue voc-tech
Paid internship or job
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Timor Leste
2007-2010
2500 youth ages 18-30
Minimum 6th grade education
up to ‘some’ secondary
school
Rural
12 month program
– 6 months work prep (on and
off-the-job training)
– 6 months accompaniment
• Youth/family microenterprise
• Continue formal school
• Continue voc-tech
• Paid internship or job
Results?
Not yet in…
In Haiti: the first cohorts of youth have entered the
‘accompaniment’ phase
In Timor Leste: we are scheduled to start our first cohorts in
July 2008