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One of the main aims of YCI programs is to equip local youth with skills so they can become useful members of their communities and take control of making their lives better. YCI educates local youth through both vocational, technical and employability workshops that provide participants with a range of skills. Through powerful experiences and service learning activities, YCI is helping to build a pool of human resources in developing regions: releasing new energy, and forging valuable skills, attitudes and civic commitment among young people.
Objective: To enable young people to successfully earn a living.
This programming acts as a non-formal addition to the formal education sector, engaging youth that have either left the formal education sector, reside in under serviced rural areas or as a complement to those engaged in the formal education sector. YCI’s youth employment and entrepreneurship activities are split into three broad areas:
- Employability Skills Training: in this program youth receive basic employability training, either over a few days full-time or as a series of part-time skills sessions and workshops. Subjects typically covered include basic communication, literacy, problem solving and leadership, teamwork, results orientation, job searching and other essentials of employment in the formal sector.
- Marketable Skills Training: youth receive training in hard marketable skills appropriate to the local employment realities. This training focuses on entrepreneurship and basic business plan creation, as well as other locally appropriate and identified topics.
- Entrepreneurship and Business Creation: In many regions the formal employment sector is limited and many youth engage in informal income generation. In this program youth receive mentoring and accompaniment in budding income generation activities. For example, YCI helps local youth leaders with renting premises, initial tool or equipment outlay and basic bookkeeping assistance. YCI’s activities always support the Convention on the Rights of the Child and minimum working age policies.
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Our Approach to Youth Development
