Skills Development for Youth Employment – SKYE

• High school students, vocational students, and job seekers, including precarious and underemployed people.
• Women and vulnerable and disadvantaged groups; returning migrants and potential migrants.
• TVET staff and career counsellors in the selected states.

1. Relevant actors in TVET and employmentpromotion jointly submit proposals formeasures to promote TVET andemployment.
2. The quality of TVET improves in terms of its demand-oriented, competency-based provision in selected economic sectors.
3. The range of active labour market measures offered by employment and counselling services for labour market integration has been expanded quantitatively and qualitatively in selected states.
4. Structures for the sustainable training of TVET staff and career counsellors are strengthened.
5. Cooperation between vocational schools and the private sector is established.

Principaux résultats attendus:  

1. Members of dialogue forums at state or national level have jointly developed 18 measures for demand-oriented vocational training or employment promotion.
2. 360 TVET teachers, trainers, instructors, 30 % of whom are women, have successfully participated in modular training courses for the methodological and content-related implementation of developed and revised training courses in accordance with the new national occupational standards.
3. There are 38 job centres in operation in selected federal states.
4. 28,200 Nigerian job seekers, 14,100 of whom are women, participated in active labour market measures run by partner organisations.
5. A functioning structure for a sustainable training system for career counsellors has been introduced in 4 federal states.
6. 200 private companies participated in a total of 20 activities of selected vocational schools to improve the transition from school to work or the practical relevance of the training.

Principaux résultats antérieurs:   Establishment of a competency-based TVET system in Edo  State through the development of 9 demandoriented competency-based occupational standards, leading to an increase in the quality of training in the agriculture, construction, and manufacturing sectors, which in turn contributed to an increase in graduates’ income. The employability of 7’186 young Nigerians (3’104 women) has been increased through the completion of vocational training courses. 4’972 people (2’199 women) were placed in (self-)employment by supported partner organisations or through active labour market measures. Income improvements were also achieved through training in the agricultural sector for 13’921 graduates (6’371 women). Relevant public and private actors work together in dialogue formats, improving quality and demand orientation in TVET and employment promotion.

• Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning
• National Board for Technical Education
• Federal Ministries of Education; Labour and Employment; Youth and Sports Development
• National Directorate of Employment, National Skills Council, National Employment Council National Business and Technical Examination Board
• State Employment Promotion Agencies
• Technical colleges and (state and nongovernmental) vocational training centres, job centres, chambers and associations of the constituted economy, companies