Burundi Skills for Jobs: Women and Youth Project

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Key Information

The development objective of the Skills for Jobs : Women and Youth Project for Burundi is to improve access and market relevance of supported skills development training and entrepreneurship opportunities for youth, particularly for women and refugees. The project comprises of three components. The first component, improving labor-market orientation of skills development aim to support strategic interventions at the institutional level and results orientation of supported skills development programs in priority economic sectors in Burundi. It consists of following sub-components: (i) enhancing labor market responsiveness of formal training providers; (ii) modernizing and expanding informal apprenticeships; and (iii) developing digital skills for the knowledge economy. The second component, fostering entrepreneurship objective is to grow a new generation of opportunity entrepreneurs. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening entrepreneurial skills; (ii) startup grants; and (iii) entrepreneurship ecosystem support. The third component, reinforcing data systems for market-oriented skills development, project management, and monitoring and evaluation consists of following sub-components: (i) reinforcing data systems for market-oriented skills development; (ii) project management and monitoring and evaluation reinforcing data systems for market-oriented skills development; and (iii) contingent emergency response component.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Burundi

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Burundi

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2021 - 2026

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Digital literacy
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Educational Technology

  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship
  • Vocational training
  • Work-study

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Ange Dany GAKUNZI
World Bank Group
agakunzi@worldbankgroup.org