1. Vocational Education and Training for
Accelerated Promotion of
Employment(VETAPE)-(Since-June-
2011to June-2012)
The overall goal of the proposed Action is to contribute to improved,
equitable, sustainable and resilient livelihoods for disadvantaged youth
and women in Punt land (Bosaso, Qardho, Galkaio and Garowe) and
hence reduce their vulnerability. The achievement of this objective will
be measured by strengthened income and competitiveness of the TVET
graduates demonstrated through increased levels of direct and
secondary employment of the target beneficiaries with equal gender
proportion. The overall objective of the Action thus will address high
unemployment rates among disadvantaged youth and women in a
systematic way by providing them with skills training for employment
and by improving the ability of the education institutions to respond to
labor market needs.
The specific objective of the VETAPE project is: increased sustainable
(self-) employment opportunities for 720 disadvantaged and vulnerable
youth and women in Punt land through vocational training linked and
functional literacy and employment advisory services

2. Target beneficiaries
 720 TVET Youth trainees & 1,340
trainees for functional literacy with
age bracket of (16-30) from
Vulnerable, risk and impact
community from different stratum of
marginalized and socially isolated
society.

3. Cont.
 This comprised of IDPs, Returnees,
Ex-militia, women and girls, persons
with disabilities, minorities and etc.
 Out of above project target number
of trainees, 190 are still under
training and will finish up training on
september-2012. While, training for
the rest have been undertaken before
that time.

4. Project Locations
 Garowe
 Galkaio
 Bosaso
 Qardho
 And Buntline

5. Project duration
 3 years in 3 separate phases per each
training semester.
 Each training phase was 6 months
time.

6. Results and achievements per result
area.
 Result 1: Increased and (more) equitable access to demand-driven entrepreneurial and vocational skills training,
employment advisory services, and functional literacy/numeracy skills for vulnerable youth, persons with physical
disabilities, ex-militia, minorities, IDPs, returnees, and in particular women.
 Achievements
 R1: 720 trainees from target beneficiaries have been selected and given access to demand-driven skills as many of
them have already been absorbed by labor market and now working with skills given.
 Employment promotion services, counseling and career advisory services have been given to enable them look for
opportunities after finishing the course
 37 Host-training Enterprises and 6 NFE Centers have been assessed and selected to Host the Enterprise-Based
Technical Vocational Education and Training in all project targeted locations for all project phases
 All the 37 selected Host-training enterprises have been inducted on how to go about the project requirements.
 Trainees intake has also been advertised through local media sites.
 1,340 Non-formal Trainees for functional Literacy have successfully been trained and later joined to the actual TVET
trainings as per project plan
 Result 2: Quality of skill trainings enhanced (through training of instructors, apprenticeships, improved
curricula, provision of appropriate tools/equipment, and examination and certification of all TVET
beneficiaries).
 Achievements
 In R2, 37 instructors of the 37 EBTVET enterprises plus 6 NFE trainers have been trained with pedagogy
skills .
 Developed Curriculum/subject outline for all different vocational subjects.
 Employment toolkits have been purchased and distributed to trainees for self-employment
 Result 3: Employability of TVET graduates through employment-led and demand-driven approaches
secured.
 Achievements
 In R3- Job, internship and self employment trainees placement opportunities have been secured
in some project areas and still going how further opportunities would be received for the
remaining trainees graduates.
 Tracers studies have been carried out jointly with save the children and other agencies of same
activities to this. For the sole purpose of this was to come closer to trainees market employment
status.

7. Cont.
 Achievement
 In R4, both concerned public and private sectors have been participated in the implementation
of the project.
 Service providing private companies have been participated and invited to consider trainees
graduates to be employed in these private sector partners.
 Result 5: Capacity of the MOE, MOL, TVET centres and other stakeholders to
sustainably manage TVET and employment advisory programmes strengthened.
 Achievements
 In R5, achievements are consortium based. This project has taken place in a consortium of agencies which save the children had the leading role. From that point of view, CARE has played its individual role in achieving capacity for all stakeholders is strengthened.

8. Final Beneficiaries
 The Ministry of Education,
 The Ministry of Labour,Youth and
Sports
 TVET Centres,
 Private/Public enterprises.

9. Types of skills offered
 Auto-Mechanic and Auto-Electric
 Fishing
 Audio-Video and cameraman ship
 Beautician
 Junior lab. Technician
 Carpentry
 Electrical installation and House wiring
 Cooling
 Barbary
 English language
 Literacy and Numeracy
 Brick Making
 Confectionaries

10. Cont.
 Auxiliary Nurse
 Networking
 Secretariat Plus computer Literacy
 Hardware
 Incense and Henna painting
 Mobile Repairing
 Beautician
 Office Management

11. Cont.
 Auto-Mechanic and Auto-Electric
 Tie and Die
 Basic Journalism
 Plumping
 Tailoring
 Pity trades

12. Host-Trainers/Enterprises
 37 enterprises have been selected
from all project locations to host
training.
 6 NFE Institutions assessed and
selected

13. Challenges
 These target beneficiaries to be trained have no motives to training
because they are struggling for their daily meals. This makes CARE to
put emphasis on how they would be motivated with the use of
unbudgeted resources and other copying mechanisms.
 Inadequate training facilities and employment toolkits for all trainees
and to make each and every trainee comfortable with his/her course of
study. CARE has tried its best to how most of trainees will be equipped
with employment toolkits, but still also some sort of effort is remaining
and need to be achieved a head of time.
 Most of partners intended to provide training have institutionally been
very low. CARE has solved this issue by assessing a great number of
partners from each region and selected the most effective, equipped
with selection criteria and potential ones from the assessed list. During
the process of assessing and selecting training providers, all concerned
government stakeholders have actively been participated and involved.

14. Plans for next six Months
VETAPE Project
 Completion of ongoing VETAPE Project activities on
September-2012.
 Timely monitoring of project activities in all project
targeted sites
 Joint planning with ministry of education for
examination and certification of trainees after
graduation.
 Evaluation of project progress, impact it sets on its
beneficiaries against initial project expected results to
be attained.
 Planning ahead and way forward from lessons
learned so far.