Improving Youth Employability Through Informal Apprenticeship

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

A Active

Key Information

The development objective of the Improving Youth Employability Through Informal Apprenticeship Project for Senegal are to strengthen the apprenticeship system and improve the employability of selected apprentices. It has three components. First component, Strengthen the system of informal apprenticeship aims to strengthen the national system of informal apprenticeship by addressing constraints in regulatory and support functions that impact on the quality of training delivery and management of the system; Second component, Improve the quality of apprentices’ skills formation processes aims to improve skills formation for youth and support their transition to gainful employment through four main venues, described below. After selecting workshops; signing up masters and apprentices; analyzing the training and equipment needs of the master crafts persons; and developing tripartite agreements between master craftsperson's, OPA and the MFPAA; the following activities will be implemented; and Third component, Project Management will support project management, including fiduciary matters, communication, planning, monitoring and evaluation. It will support the different positions including project coordinator, fiduciary staff, and technical experts for various areas including training, validation and certification of competencies, MIS, M&E, and communication.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Senegal

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Senegal

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2018 - 2024

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Senegal Ministry of Employment, Professional Training, Apprenticeship and Economic Insertion

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship
  • Vocational training

Policy/legal environment

  • System-wide review and reform

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being