Renewing Education, Rebuilding Sudan!

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VIS-DBN
DON BOSCO
Youth Empowerment
in Sudan (Y.E.S.)
Improving youth IDP livelihood
through the provision of quality
employment-oriented vocational
training in Khartoum
St. Joseph’s Vocational Training Centre
Khartoum Industrial Area – Khartoum
OUTLINE
1. About VIS and DBN
2. Sudan programme:
“Reviving Education,
Rebuilding Sudan”
3. About Y.E.S.
4. Areas of collaborations
& partnership
VIS
International Volunteer
Service for Development
■ Established in 1986 in Italy.
Headquarter in Rome
(local office in Milan)
■ Working in about 30
countries in the world
■ In Italy: education,
advocacy & fundraising
■ Public & Private funds
■ Member of a number of
national and international
networks: DBN, CINI,
AGIRE, CORESAD
The Don Bosco Network (DBN)
■ Since 2004 - 7 European NGOs
■ Headquarters in Bonn – working in 90 countries
■ VIS is DBN lead agency in Sudan
Spain
The DBN members:
Germany
Belgium
Austria
Italy
VIS IN SUDAN
■
Since July 2006 in Khartoum
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Fully participatory process
with the partners (Don Bosco,
FMA, Comboni, etc.)
■
DBN “Country Strategy
Paper for Sudan 2007-11”
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An aid to write grant proposals
■
A guide for implementation
■
A tool for M&E
■
11 detailed LF for
interventions in 3 zones
(Khartoum, Darfur and South)
St. Joseph’s Vocational Training Centre
MISSION
(since 1988)
Providing a well-rounded and relevant job-oriented
vocational training to disadvantaged and marginalized
youth (IDPs) of greater Khartoum
HOLISTIC
EDUCATION
“Don Bosco style”
SJVTC
Electronics
Carpentry
Auto-Mechanics
Printing Press
Y.E.S Project
OVERALL
GOAL
Contributing to the process of poverty reduction
and socio-economic exclusion of IDPs in Khartoum State,
and, where applicable, to contribute to the process of the
return of skilled manpower for the sustainable
economic development of Southern Sudan
Y.E.S Project
SPECIFIC GOAL
To improve youth IDP livelihood in Khartoum state trough the provision
of quality employment-oriented vocational training
by enhancing the capacity and the standards
of the St. Joseph’s Vocational Training Centre (SJVTC)
CAPACITY
STANDARDS
More IDPs gaining
access to SJVTC
(yet services provided
and improved)
Strengthening/
Upgrading SJVTC
(capacity building)
Y.E.S.
6 macro-areas of intervention:
1. Improved Access & Services
2. Quality Vocational Training
3. New Market-oriented Courses
4. Capacity Building for Teachers
5. Capacity Building for SJVCT leadership
6. Follow-up: Career counseling,
Job-placement & Return
1. Access & Services
1. Selection process
• More participatory
• Targeting the most needy
2. Transportation
• New route from Kalakala
3. Food
• Better diet for all IDPs youth
4. Health care
• Check up & ongoing assistance
LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION
5. Animation
• Recreational & Sports activities
• Meetings with Social Worker
2. Vocational Training
Provision of quality courses in 7
marketable trades:
1. Trades
• 3-month preparatory course
• carpentry, general mechanic,
auto-mechanic, welding,
masonry, electricity,
and printing.
2. Equipment & Tools
• Overalls to students
• Basic drawing kit
• Students aids and handbooks
• Raw material and tools
3. New Market-oriented courses
New-market oriented courses introduced at SJVTC
New “trade” of
entry-level
Graphic Design
(from YEAR 2)
******
Within the Printing
Press department
New “trade” of AirConditioning
Refrigeration
(from YEAR 2)
*****
Within Electricity
department
New course of
Entrepreneurial
skills + toolbox for
graduating
students
(from YEAR 1)
Consultant/teacher
Equipment and tools
Consultant/teacher
Toolboxes
VERTICAL
Consultant
Teacher
Computers
Printers
Digital camera
Basic Computer
Literacy to ALL
students
(from YEAR 1)
HORIZONTAL
2 Teachers
4. Capacity Building for trainers
TRAINING of TRAINERS
Visiting
expert/consultant
of VT each year
>> Plan of action for
teacher’s training
and upgrading
workshops
Then in each
department 2 inservice workshops
per year
(curricula,
handbooks, etc.)
Summer course
(Ministry of Labour
and Manpower)
Visiting expert
Experts coming
for a day
Less experienced
trainers
5. Follow up of students
Job Placement & Return
Establishment of a
job placement &
career counselling
office
Facilitate willing
students to return to
Southern Sudan
Director of CC office
Link with NGOs and UN
Agencies
6. Capacity building of SJVTC
CB for SJVTC
Organize 3
meetings with
DBVTCs in Sudan
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Which could become an open
forum open to NGOs working
in VT
Twinning with
Kenya, Egypt, Italy
and India
(volunteers, visiting
experts, etc.)
Areas of collaboration
1. Teacher's training
2. Entrepreneurship courses
3. New courses (AC & GD)
4. Internships & Job Placement
5. Return & Reintegration
6. Advocacy & lobbying
SUDAN COUNTRY OFFICE
Andrea Naletto
Country Representative
PO Box 12715 - Khartoum
Mobile: +249 (0) 915716442
Tel/Fax: +249 (0) 155129797
www.volint.it/sudan
[email protected]
Text & Graphics: Andrea Naletto