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BRAC
Skills Development Programme
Scenario in Bangladesh
• 2.2 million young people are entering the work-force every year Source
• 2.68 million unemployed among people aged 15+ Source
• 12.3% unemployed among those who are 15-24 years old Source
• 5.3% unemployment rate among literates Source
• 40% youth not in Employment, Education or Training Source
• 36% women participation in Labor Force Source
• 85% employed in the informal sector Source
• 75% of all school drop-out girls are victim to child marriage Source
Skills Development Programme
• Established in 2015
• Skills training via hands-on apprenticeships and institution and better jobs to
400,000 disadvantaged women and men
• Working to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
– SDG 4.4: ensuring skills for youth and adults for decent employment and entrepreneurship
– SDG 8: promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all
• Partnerships:
SDP Approach
• Leveraging existing platform system
• Community based system
• Scalable model
• Not high or zero capital investment
• Market need oriented
• Aligned with National Skills Development Policy
Institution based training
Hands-on apprenticeships
Job & Entrepreneurship support
Apprenticeship Training & Entrepreneurship support
• Skills Training for Advancing Resources (STAR)
• Promoting Skills and Productivity Enhancement for Resilience (PROSPER)
• Promoting business Incubation for small entrepreneurs (PROMISE)
• Pro-poor Growth of Rural Enter-prises through Sustainable Skills-development (PROGRESS)
STAR
Mastercrafts person (MCP)
o Micro or small business owner
o Good reputation in the community
Trainee
o Age 14-18
o Girls, boys, disabled people,
school dropouts
On-the-job training Theoretical training Soft skills training
Six months apprenticeship
Skills Training for Advancing Resources
• 95% job placement rate
• 62% reduction in child marriage among female learners
• 6 Fold increase in income
• 1:3 cost-benefit ratio
• Higher training impact on females
• Enhanced empowerment, self-confidence and job satisfaction
Impact of STAR: Oldest project of BRAC SDP and a highly successful model in informal economy
PROSPER
Mastercrafts person (MCP)
o Micro or small business owner
o Good reputation in the community
Trainee
o Age 18 and above
o Willing to pay fee
On-the-job training Theoretical training Soft skills training
Three months apprenticeship
Promoting Skills and Productivity Enhancement for Resilience
PROMISE
Financial Background
o Able to pay training fee
o Can invest 20-30% cash or asset to
start business within 6 months
Clients
o STAR Graduate & others
o Age 18+
Activity based Mentoring support Access to finance
Classroom training
10 months skills knowledge and mentoring support to potential youth entrepreneurs
Promoting business Incubation for small entrepreneurs
PROGRESS
Light Engineerion Owner
o Micro & Cottage enterprise
o Willing to improve business
Trainee
o Age 18-30
o Marginalized community
o 40% Women, 10% PWD
Productivity and Capacity building Skills Development Establish new enterprises
Economic Gain of Light Training in Light in micro & cottage
Engineering Owners Engineering Sector industries
4 months apprenticeship
Pro-poor Growth of Rural Enter-prises through Sustainable Skills-development
Institution Based Training
• BRAC Institute of Skills Development (BRAC-ISD)
• Skills Training Access in General Education (STAGE)
• Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP)
• Empowering the ready-made-garment workers living in urban slums of Dhaka (ERMG)
• ABOLOMBON
BRAC-ISD
Institution
o CBT&A certified trainers
o One-on-one employable Hands-on training
Including occupational safety & health
o Assessment & Accreditation of Skills
Trainee
o Age 18+
o 20% Female, 1% PWD
o 81% job placement rate
Registered NTVQF Certification Industry Driven Decent
Training Organization City & Guilds accredited Competency-based Employment
BTEB accredited Skills Training
Institutional Technical & Vocational Training
BRAC Institute of Skills Development
STAGE
Beneficiaries
o 2 schools & 4 madrasah
o 120 student in grade IX
o 36% female enrolment
Partnership Integrates skill training Alternative pathway Opportunity to receive
with A2i into general education for youth who are National Skills Certificate
(Govt of Bangladesh) potential drop-outs with SSC Certificate
Being implemented in six general education institutions
Current Scenario
o .2 million do not pass SSC annually
o 40% dropout in secondary schools
Skills Training Access in General Education
SEIP
• Partnership with Bangladesh Employers Federation (BEF)
• Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Soft skills at workplace
• Training Master Trainers
• Training of youth and young adults in Tourism & Hospitality
• Capacity building in growth sectors:
ICT Construction RMG Shipbuilding Light Textile, Leather
Engineering & Footwear
Skills for Employment Investment Program
ERMG
Beneficiaries
o 1200 workers (71% women)
o Newly entrant in RMG sector
o 92% placement rate
Institution based Certification & Decent Employment Financial
Sewing Machine Career Counseling & Industry Link-up Solvency
Operation Training (25 RMG factories)
Empowering the ready-made-garment workers living in urban slums of Dhaka
ABOLOMBON
Partnership 5000 vulnerable women
with SINGER Bangladesh
Tailoring & Dressmaking Training 20 Training Centres
KORMO
App-based Searchability as per 20000+ Jobs 8000 seekers and 1000
Marketplace Pay range & Schedule Fulfilled employers on app
Job placement across formal & informal sector
Decent Work & Quality Assurance
Strengthening Decent Work Occupational Safety & Health Ensure Quality of Skills Training
Enforce: Decent Hours, Decent Wages, Job Security, Work & Sickness,
Children at Work, Forced Labour
Promote: Decent Wages, Maternity Benefits, Fair Treatment, Leave Facilities,
Employment Security, Health & Safety
Cross-cutting theme
Social Inclusion
Cross-cutting theme
Reach the Improve terms and Ensure equal market
hard-to-reach conditions for Girls, PWD, access and representation
Transgender, Minorities & Indigenous in decision making
• 33,980 people equipped with skills
• 41% girls/women
• 5% people with disabilities
• 15,000 business owners trained in decent work
• 166 upazilas of 46 districts
[30% urban : 70% rural]
Output by Numbers
• Ensuring more female trainees and persons with disability
• Ensuring skills training for the masses amidst shrinking funds from
development partners
• Addressing the skills mismatch
• Working with people’s perception about technical & vocational skills training
• Changing the “low-skill”, “cheap labour” perception of local & overseas
workers
Road Ahead