Project profile — Young Competent Madagascans at Work

• Madagascar (100.00%)

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (25.00%)
Education facilities and training (11120) (5.00%)
• Basic Education: Basic life skills for youth (11231) (20.00%)
• Upper secondary education:
Upper secondary education (11322) (15.00%)
Vocational training (11330) (15.00%)
• Post-Secondary Education: Higher education (11420) (15.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (5.00%)

• Trade development (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)

The project aims to increase the employability of and facilitate entry into the labour market of young women and men in Antananarivo, Ambositra and Antsiranana. The project includes vocational, technical and university training (VTUT) for jobs in construction and public works, and the tourism, hotel and food services industries, as well as training to help young people become entrepreneurs. Project activities include the following: (1) reviewing targeted training programs in educational institutions (secondary school and university) using a skills based approach; (2) setting up institutional services to help young people, particularly girls, enter the labour market and/or provide support to help them start businesses; and (3) developing joint action and collaborative arrangements between educational institutions and private sector and civil society organizations in order to expand the supply of vocational, technical and university training.

The expected outcomes for this project include: 1) strengthened organizational management for institutions providing vocational, technical and university training for jobs in construction and public works, and the tourism, hotel industry, food services industries, as well as support to help young people start businesses—that is, strengthened organizational management that incorporates approaches based on equality between men and women, as well as on the environment and sustainable development; (2) increased implementation of revised vocational, technical and university training programs that incorporate the environment, sustainable development, and equality between men and women, and meet various labour market requirements in the fields concerned; and (3) increased long-term collaboration between institutions providing vocational, technical and university training and private sector and civil society organizations for the purposes of setting up institutional services on an egalitarian basis to help young people enter the labour market and/or provide support to help them start businesses.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) nine vocational, technical, and university training centers improved their organizational management. They integrated approaches to gender equality, environment, and sustainable development into sectors such as building and public works, tourism, hotel and food service, and support services; (2) trained 38% of women trainers and men trainers in competency-based pedagogy in their targeted fields; (3) five out of the nine targeted institutions are capable of partially or fully providing integrated services for raising awareness, training, and supporting the start-up and expansion of businesses; and (4) six women and two men scholarship recipients are pursuing their studies in Canada.

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