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NYTC PRESENTATION

Date: 12TH August, 2014

Venue: NYTC Conference Room

NATIONAL YOUTH TRAINING CENTRE

PO Box 495, Sigatoka

NATIONAL YOUTH TRAINING CENTRE

Vision and Mission People’s Charter Functions of NYTC Programmes Training Monitoring Farm Revenue Collection Nasaucoko Model Farm QCC Projects Up-grading of NYTC

infrastructure Public-private partnerships Corporate responsibility

Ministry of Youth and SportsVision:Dynamic youth, live better through sports

Mission:Empowering youths and fostering a culture of sporting excellence for all.

Values:Our values and principles are illustrated in the seven star performance and seven elements of success; passion, perseverance, focus, integrity, ambition, drive and positive attitude.

Core competencies:Analytical thinking, strategic awareness, communication, PR, innovative thinking, financial & resource management.

NYTC’s Organization StructurePYO

YO Carpentry Instructor

Stockman Farmhand

Assistant Stockman

Laborer

CO Typist Store-man

Handyman D/Asst Cook

Driver

People’s Charter for Change Peace and Progress Pillar 8: Reducing poverty to a negligible

level by 2015 Way Forward:- Strengthen coordination, implementation and monitoring of poverty alleviation programmes including partnership agreement between government, the civil society and the private sector. Linkage to CP/BP: Training and empowerment

Pillar 9: Making Fiji a knowledge based society Way forward: - Enhance skills and vocational training as well as promoting leadership and entrepreneurship training and facilitate job placement in partnership with the private sector. Linkage to BP/CP: Training and

empowerment for improved livelihood.

Functions of National Youth Training Centre

Purpose: 1. Develop young people’s potential through:- Capacity building- Empowerment- Character development- Specific skills training

2. Provide “second chance” training to youths

o Target client: youths of 15-35 years of age

Programmes1. Training: Carpentry Agriculture

2. Farm: Piggery Poultry Crops Beekeeping Aquaculture

Training Programs Carpentry – Carpenter General Class III. - FNU (NPTC)Accredited training course.

Agriculture – Certificate in Basic Agriculture Training

- This includes piggery, poultry, crops and bee keeping, coral restoration, Children’s forest programme, waste management, environment.

o Advanced Certificate in Agriculture-

Carpentry training FNU (NPTC)

Carpentry Class III Accredited training course

Target number of trainees: 17

Expected number to be graduated: 17

Trade test in September

Agriculture Training Agriculture i. Reviewing and piloting of Standard

Agricultural Training Prescriptionii. Target number of trainees: 15iii. Achievement so far: Batch I (15 trainees) completed SOS training & successfully completed 5 months basic agriculture training Batch II completed SOS & are now in their 1st month of agriculture training

Monitoring/Follow up of Ex-trainees . One of the last year’s ex-

trainee in Koronisagana, Navosa that we followed up in the 1st quarter of this year and seems to be doing well. Shown in the pictures are his dalo, Cassava & vegetable farms

Monitoring visits: 13/8 – 16/8/13

20

7Ex-trainees Visited

Basic Agricul-ture ex-traineesCarpentry ex-trainees

8

7

3 2

Finding for Basic Agriculture Ex-traineesSmall Scale Semi

Commercial FarmersSubsistence FarmersPursuing Further EducationEmployment

Monitoring (cont)

2

22

1

Findings for Carpentry Class III Ex-traineesFull time Em-ployment

Serving At-tachment Work

Contract Based Employment

Self Employed

Farm Purposes: Provide food security Source of government revenue - 2013

Annual Revenue Target = $45,000-00 - Distribution: Piggery - $30,000 - 00 Crops - $10,000 - 00 Poultry - $5,000 -00o Practical training for trainees

PiggeryClass of pigs

Stock Number

Boar 2Sows 31GrowerPiglets

8528

Total 146

PoultryClass of chickens

Number of birds

3 weeks old 398

4 weeks old 248

6 weeks old 380

Total 1,026

Crop FarmCrops NumberTomato 4,000C/Cabbage 1000W/melon 800Capsicum 400Banana 200Eggplant 700CassavaFrench beanL/Bean

2 acres700

1,400

Revenue Collection

Janu

ary

Febr

uary

Marc

h

April

May

June July

Augu

st

0500

100015002000250030003500

2013 revenue

PiggeryPoultryVegetables

Piggery Poultry Vegetables Total

January 1000 110   1110.00

February 200   23 223.00

March 0 0 0 0

April 3000 1665 1146 5811.00

May 1800 1605 980 4385.00

June 600   560 1160.00

July 1,282.60 1695 1541.50 4519.10

August 1848 105 2352 4305.00

Total 9730.60 5180.00 6602.50 $21,513.10

Up-grading of NYTC infrastructure The government allocated

a total of $105,000.00 for the upgrading of facilities.

The projects earmarked this year includes:

1 x 3 b/r concrete house (staff quarters)

1 x 3 b/r wooden house (staff quarters)

1 x chicken slaughter house

Up-grading of the piggery Construction of a new 20m

x 7m poultry shed.

Public- Private Relationship

Memorandum of understanding between Government through the Ministry of Youth and Sports and OISCA International

Memorandum of understanding between Ministry of Primary Industries (Agriculture Department, AH & P Division) and Ministry of Youth and Sports

Govt./MYS and OISCA International Initiated in 1990 and reviewed in 2012.

Focus areas:- Agriculture Training – cost sharing- Leadership training- Time management- Character development- Environmental awareness training - Children forest programme - Coral restoration - Mangrove planting -Waste management (3 R’s Concept) – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

o Agriculture training programme in Japan – 120 trainees successfully graduated.

NYTC and Department of Agriculture [AH & P Division] Initiated in 2012 after the

initial MOU was ceased with Taiwan Technical Mission

Focus areas: Training and Empowerment of youths - Supply of day old chicks

Results of partnership Adequate supply

of protein level to trainees diets.

Agriculture trainees gain more exposure through practicals and field visit to Sigatoka Research Station.

Corporate Responsibility The following activities

were carried out by the trainees

Planting trees at the Nalagi District School

Planting mangrove at Korotogo seashore

Planting coral at Votualailai village reef

Thank you for listening