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Improved Business Development Support Services and Entrepreneurship Education Targeting MSMEs and Youth for the Creation of Decent Work Opportunities in Iraq - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3477

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3477

location:

country:

Iraq

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Improved Business Development Support Services and Entrepreneurship Education Targeting MSMEs and Youth for the Creation of Decent Work Opportunities in Iraq - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2022-11-07 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Employment

category:

Training

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action_plan:

This is not realistics as the project has ended and no resources are available for instance to equip workshops. As a general idea the ILO can agree. For instance recently, the ILO has signed an MoU with Erbil Polytechnic University (EPU) to develop skills of technicians and workers. The ILO will consider expanding such agreements to establish incubation centres within VTCs. The ILO has also initiated discussions with Iraqi Federation of Industries (IFI) through the joint SP program to establish incubation canters to benefit graduates coming out of VTCs.

management_response:

Rejected

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Recommendation 10. Support incubation of graduates and trainees through the use of the current VTCs workshops in production activities The existing training workshops in the VTCs can also play the role of production, so that graduates can work in these workshops and produce according to market needs. Interested graduates of the vocational and technical centers could be supported in the use of the workshop’s facilities (equipment, tools and laboratories) to produce goods for business purpose, after careful market research and preparation of a business plan. This would require, however, the upgrading of the equipment and tools in these workshops. The use of such facilities would certainly reduce the cost of production and enable the graduates to compete in the market with imported goods. The concept of incubation (business incubators) could be applied to these centers, as the graduates have to leave after few years of production, and start their business independently, thus leaving the incubator space to new entrants (graduates).

project_symbols:

IRQ/19/03/DEU

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/16237

information_source:

Country Office

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