While people under 25 years old account for 60% of Indian population and are the most affected by unemployment, it appears that training offer does not fit new market needs. Indeed, a good training goes with high costs that many young people cannot afford.
It is even harder for girls as their parents do not want them to work outside home. When they do get this opportunity, they are underpaid and earn much less than their male counterparts.
To solve this problem, Plan India set up vocational training centres offering training modules allowing young people to meet their needs.
Main objective
The main objective of this project is to promote the employment of most deprived young people from Delhi, especially girls, through vocational training that meet the needs of local employment market in Delhi.
Specific objectives
Give access to vocational trainings to 3,000 young boys and girls
Raise awareness on importance of girls’ economic empowerment (in particular among target families and communities as well as potential employers)
Develop Plan India’s partner NGOs skills on the « Program for the promotion of youth employment through vocational training » to enable them to help young people, even after the end of the project.
Focus on the project’s sustainability
In all 5 intervention zones, alumni groups have been formed in order to encourage the exchange of experiences with students looking for a job.
In line with its values, PLAN has designed this project so that local NGOs would be able to monitor training centres autonomously in the future.
These NGOs will benefit from PLAN’s building capacities training (knowledge transfer and know-how) and thus will be able to monitor the project by themselves.
Beneficiaries
3,000 young people of whom at least 1,600 girls from poor and socially excluded families. 1,000 young people will be trained every year (200 per locality).
Intervention area and duration
Area: 5 resettlement localities composed of population from former slums in Delhi: Holambi Kalan, Mangolpuri, Dwarka, Badarpur, Madanpur Khadar
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