Skill Development Program

This project provides comprehensive training and assistance for 250 unemployed/underemployed youths to make a sustainable living. The project offers locally marketable 600h skills training in masonry, office skills, motorcycle/bicycle repairing, agriculture training and dairy and wool processing, and carpet weaving. Trainees will also get literacy, peace and business education.
The target group will be young adult (men and women) aged between 16 to 40 from poor families living in Nili, Shahrestan and Miramor districts of Daykundi Province.
CCA has been working in Daykundi province since 1998 and currently has two offices in Daykundi (Nili and Shahrestan). Daykundi was chosen by CCA because: a) Daykunidi recently became a province which requires opening lots of jobs particularly for skilled labor both in government and private sectors; b) the province has a great number of jobless youth who may leave the province if they are not provided with sustained income/employment. Skill areas are:

CCA was providing and purchasing the training Equipments (Toolkits) and materials for training. The training curriculums which are used by CCA have already been developed and used by the MoLSAMD partners (international and national NGO including CCA) in the past trainings. Much of the training will be practical and hands on instructions by trainers. However, CCA uses short manuals and hand outs for all trainings. Computer training will have detailed descriptive handbooks for trainees.

Trainees’ learning assessed during the training through weekly tests by trainers. Weekly tests will be given by each trainer to make sure that trainees have gotten the knowledge and skills. At the end of the training all trainees must take a final exam and met the standards which are set for each course. Exams include both practical and theatrical aspects of the training as well as presence record of each trainee.

Performance of trainers and the effectiveness of the training are assessed through monthly monitoring of CCA Training Unit and by monitoring team of the Department of MoLSAMD.