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Addressing Education and Skills Gaps for Vulnerable Youths in Haiti: Promoting rural socio-economic development in South and Grande Anse Departments - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2582

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2582

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Vocational training

category:

Employment

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comments:

• Approximately 1000 18-25 years old youth were given skills training in the period 2017 to 2020 (30% women)

challenges:

Main concerns voiced by the young technicians trained under FOPRODER During the surveys, in addition to the other fundamental aspects raised, the beneficiaries of the training programs were called upon to express their main concerns, which could be the subject of structuring discussions to match elements of adaptable responses to be formulated. The main claims raised can be grouped into nine (9) unifying questions (cf.: the data have been treated according to the principle of everything that looks like comes together), namely: 1. Given that the sectorial and transversal ministries were not structurally involved in the implementation process, at the administrative and technical closure of the FOPRODER project, to which regional institution can young trained technicians address them to present their grievances? 2. Young trained technicians generally cannot have collateral to apply for loans from microfinance institutions (cf.: Very high repayment rate, conditionalities of credit services unsuited to the contexts of family farming). Most of them come from households with precarious socio-economic conditions. So, what would be the best alternative for these young graduates to consider in order to mobilize funds to create individual and collective economic initiatives that are solvent and responsible? 3. The INFP does not have an office at the level of the departments of South and Grand’Anse. Young people who have not yet obtained their diploma ask themselves: after the closure of FOPRODER, which regional entity can they contact to obtain their diploma?

success:

The youth, when consulted in the final evaluation, gave many options for how to convert their training into more positive experiences if there can be follow up actions in a second phase:

context:

• The specific vulnerabilities of this group relate to the fact that they are stigmatized as the ones “left behind” in rural areas and unfortunately the pathway to decent work in the project led to some frustrated expectations in this regard. The formal employment market for skills training graduates in South and Grand’Anse in the agro-forestry and fishing sectors is non-existent so young people must make their way in the family enterprises and possibly through the associations.

description:

Vocational training of 18-25-Year-Old Youth • The idea of providing young people in vulnerable socio-economic conditions with technical training remains an initiative of capital importance. However, it is estimated that this group find it difficult to develop a certain autonomy to integrate into the labor market. The “wait-and-see attitude” is very high. • With the socio-economic reality evolving in the geographic departments of the South and Grand'Anse, it is almost impossible to approach the economic development of young people from an angle strictly linked to vocational training. Any initiative aimed at the sustainable development of the departments must inevitably develop a harmonious formula capable of reconciling the expectations of young people in terms of professional integration, access to credit, investment insurance, an adapted legal framework, a safe and reliable environment, and infrastructure providing conditions capable of attracting exogenous finance

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/174850

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location:

country:

Haiti

region:

Americas

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eval_title:

Addressing Education and Skills Gaps for Vulnerable Youths in Haiti: Promoting rural socio-economic development in South and Grande Anse Departments - Final Evaluation