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TRAINING PROJECT ¨YACHAY¨ FOR THE GENERATION OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND JOB PLACEMENT (Yachay is teaching in Quechua)
Project name: Training Project for the Generation of Self-Employment and job placement.
Duration: May 2009 - April 2010
Description summary of the project:
The project aims to promote the skills and development of young people with limited resources, to improve their chances of integration into the labour market and the conditions for self employment.
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The development of skills must respond to market demands as a necessary condition so as to guarantee the achievement of the objectives and impact of the project. For this purpose there are three components:
Component 1: Training and/or technical assistance:
Youth and women receive our services and technical assistance primarily in undertaking short courses to enhance their skills and enable them to have the possibility to be included into the labour market as soon as possible.
80.0% of 600 young people will be trained for a job into the labour market
The technical training courses are at two levels (basic and advanced) for an average of three months. The training courses are to improve the abilities of the participants in activities that are part of a whole process. The proposal of the following courses has to be confronted with the market demand.
Table 1: Types of training courses
Sector |
Type of course |
Type of work |
Food |
Kitchen assistant |
Dependent employment |
Services |
Hairdressing assistant |
Self-employment |
Services |
Salesman |
Dependent employment |
Services |
Waiters and waitresses (with English) |
Dependent employment |
Services |
Housekeeping |
Dependent employment |
Services |
Cake decorators |
Self-employment |
Services |
Craftsmanship |
Self-employment |
Services |
Receptionists (with English) |
Dependent employment |
Services |
Child care and household helpers |
Dependent employment |
Various |
Micro enterprises |
Self-employment |
Food |
Raising guinea pigs |
Self-employment |
Food |
Orchards |
Self-employment |
Courses planned years 2008 - 2009: 24
Students planned: 600
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Component 2: Insertion labour
Youth and women benefit from the insertion program which enables them to join the labour market and to improve their chances of self-employment. Many of them can even form their own businesses.
537 people are inserted into the labour market through the ‘Centre intermediation and job placement project’.
TRAINING CULTURE
The strengthening of the entrepreneurial culture among the beneficiaries of the project is almost essential. This is essential for the mode of self-employment and job placement and thereby planning courses to strengthen this issue.
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ADVICE MICRO CREDITS
In collaboration with organizations such as ‘Financial Cusco’’ we are trying to ensure that the youth can build their own micro organization. The charges would be for all students in the project.
VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION COURSES
Before these people achieve and improve their technical capabilities and management, they need to properly define where their potential targets and skills lie. These will be reinforced with internships and engineering practices. There will be awareness and dissemination agents applicants; then formalized with commitments with companies and institutions through an agreement and / or letters of intent, to ensure the integration of youth in the labour market.
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The information centre is responsible for attracting labour demands of work on the behalf of entrepreneurs (agents’ plaintiffs market) and identifies the offer according to the requirements of the labour demand.
The Information Center of the project has a commercial function and will operate as an employment agency business. During each half year there will be a transformation of activities without achievement in commercial activities and a business plan will be presented. See Chapter 10 "Strategy for Sustainability Project" for more information of the commercial activities of CEDNA.
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The Component Development Staff
To strengthen leadership skills and the practice of values, 320 girls and women with leadership skills would perform micro enterprises and improve their performance in the labour market.
CAPACITY LEADERSHIP
The leadership that is closely linked to improving the standard of self-esteem of the recipient is a key factor in achieving good performance, both in generating self-employment and employability. The project envisages these training courses to seek and to enhance these aspects.
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Justification of the project:
The United Nations reported ‘World Youth’ in 2005, in which is said that the youth of the world has increased from 1025 million to 1153 million and is representing 18.0% of the world population. 85.0% of this global youth is living in developing countries and 45.0% of them is living on less than two dollars a day. Statistics from the International Labour Organization (ILO) indicate that youth unemployment in the world grew from 11.7% in 1993 to 14.4% (88 million young people) in 2003.
In Peru, the young population (which included the population from 15 to 29 years) is estimated for 2005 at 7.992.114 inhabitants, which represent 28.7% of the total country's population. In Cusco, in the year 2000 there was a total of 80.943 young people between 15 and 29 years old, who accounted for 43.7% of the working age population (PET) and this population is facing the urban underemployment of 44.6%. This situation is explained mainly by low productivity of these young people, which is linked to its poor level of education and technical skills. All of this is limiting their ability to generate revenue.
The unemployment rate in the youth population reached 14.7%. This indicator is even higher for young people aged from 15 to 19.
Generally high levels of unemployment in the city of Cusco, threaten to become a dangerous social problem. Even its current production structure shows a weak capacity to create jobs and consequently a progressive deterioration of income levels.
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Population Recipient:
Addresses
Direct: 550 persons (320 and 230 Young Adults)
Indirect: 1800 people (Families of the trainees)
In the country and specifically in the city Cusco, the young population faces a totally adverse labour market and is precarious. This high rate of unemployment reflects the inadequate conditions for job placement and the generation of self-employment. Mainly due to the low rate of technique that has this stock.
Therefore, young people remain unattended and highly vulnerable. They have a very low accessibility into the labour market, with inadequate conditions to generate their own employment.
For this reason, the project focuses on its intervention in marginal urban areas of the city of Cusco, where the target population of the project is located.
Scope of intervention
Department: Cusco
Districts: Santiago, San Jeronimo, Cusco, Wanchaq
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