GOOD PRACTICE: Creation of an Employment Promotion Working Group - World Vision, Somalia.

Good Practice: Creation of an Employment Promotion Working Group

Brief summary:

Under the project, World Vision established an Employment Promotion Working Group (EPWG) in Puntland to link TVET graduates to potential employers. Other International NGOs, such as Care and Save the Children, as well as UN agencies like ILO and FOA, the Ministry of Education (MoE), the Ministry of Labor, Youth and Sports (MoLYS), the private sector and TVET providers are members of the working group. The working group helps to promote and strengthen networking systems between the TVET trainers, MoLYS, municipalities, and the private sector. The latest consultation meetings were conducted in October and November 2017 to clarify roles and responsibilities, identify necessary support, and outline the way forward to eliminate all factors that hinder youth gaining employment. It envisioned that an online platform will be set up where employers post their job adverts and potential employees and that the working group will organize “job fairs” in the future, during which private sector companies can present themselves, TVET centers and graduates can showcase their skills and both can be linked up for employment opportunities.

Key Areas of Good Practice

• Institution and capacity strengthening of implementing agency, project partners including (local) government agencies (1.9)
• Vocational and/or skills training (3.6)
• Enabling especially vulnerable groups on economic empowerment (women, people with disabilities, affected by HIV, youth, refugees, migrants, minority groups, etc.) (4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.11)