Job and Business Development Services Initiative (JOBS Nigeria)

1. Job and Business Development Services Initiative(JOBS Nigeria) Presentation of the project and its successes; Technical Work Planning Retreat May 9, 2006

2. Presentation will answer the who, what, where, why and how of JOBS • What is JOBS? • WHO is being targeted? • WHERE & WHY is JOBS being implemented? • HOW is this project being implemented? • WHAT successes have been achieved?

3. WHAT IS JOBS? Job and Business Development Services Initiative (JOBS Nigeria) • Employment Generation (Job creation; Job Placement) • Apprenticeship/Livelihood Training • Life-skills Training (Leadership; Business Ethics; Health & Hygiene; HIV/AIDS, Conflict, etc.) • Access to Start-up Capital/Microcredit • Business Development (Advisory) Services

4. Goal of JOBS Nigeria • Is to promote broad-based economic growth in Nigeria by providing sustainable employment–generation and business development services to the poor and vulnerable.

5. JOBS Strategic Objectives • Create access to practical microenterprise development services. • Develop access to viable employment-generation services • Strengthen the operational and sustainability of job creation and placement services

6. WHO IS JOBS TARGETING?

7. JOBS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING

8. Youth at Work in Kano

9. Youth in Cross River State

10. WHY is JOBS Being Implemented? General Findings of the Unemployment Situation in Nigeria: • Poor attitude to work by youth • Vocational-technical institutions provide training that is formal, specialized; few connections, if any, are made with private and public sector job opportunities. • Self –employment, where most jobs within the Nigeria economy exist, receives little attention • Low self-esteem among youth, especially girls • Vocational skills not consistent with market needs • Limited access to micro-finance/financial-services • Inadequate business development services

11. Why JOBS Nigeria? • The socio-economic and political growth prospects of Nigeria depend, in part, on how well its youth are integrated into the mainstream of the economy • Youth between the ages of 18 to 34 years represent the largest demographic portion of the unemployed in Nigeria

12. Why JOBS Nigeria (cont’d)? • Youth are currently 72.2% of the urban unemployed and 68.4 % of the rural unemployed. • Pronounced Youth restiveness in Nigeria, is in part a result of lack of jobs for unskilled, out-of-school youth as well for the increasing number of graduates.

13. The Mission of OIC International It is to improve the quality of life of low-income, disadvantaged individuals in developing countries through the provision of sustainable human resource development services

14. New Paradigm in Job Creation • The JOBS program is implementing a new workforce development model that concentrates on developing the informal sector by offering business development training that is demand-driven, market-relevant and sustainable. • JOBS helps to promote the advancement of girls education and provides training to the poor and vulnerable to gain marketable business skills/strategies and economic management tools that is helping to alleviate poverty.

15. 1 2 3 4 5 Selection of Trainees Placement in Training According to Skill Preference Vocational Training/ Apprenticeship Provided Start-up Capital, if available Start Business Employment Generation Approaches Traditional Model

16. 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 Guidance & Counseling establishes interest areas and guides on demand-driven opportunities Ready to Start and Manage Microenterprise Entrepreneurship & Basic Business Management Training Vocational Skill Training Selection of Trainees/ Life Skills Training Start-up Capital/ Loans Follow-up/Business Advisory Services Employment Generation Approaches Modern (Market-Driven) Model

17. JOBS Pre-Implementation Strategy • Stakeholder Identification and Analysis; • Baseline and Livelihood Studies; • Design and implementation of long-term Community Development Plans; • Training and capacity building for CBOs and oil company staff (if necessary) in sustainable community development approaches and methodologies; • Development of communication strategies and public relations.

18. JOBS Implementation Strategy • Employment Generation Services • Job Creation • Business Development Services • Capacity Strengthening of Vocational Training Institutions

19. Career Counseling • Application • Counseling • Orientation Job Creation Job Placement • Training • Mentorship • Job creation • Business Advisory • Services (BDS) • Training • Apprenticeship • Job Placement • Follow-up/ • Monitoring

20. Key Project Successes JOBS has provided microenterprise training to 6,206 youth and women; JOBS has provided mentoriship attachments to 525 aspiring entreprenuers; and apprenticeship training to 2,901 youth and women; JOBS has facilitated linkages to start-up capital to 1,508 participants of the program; JOBS has provided job placement training and counseling to 12,935 youth and women; JOBS has provided employment opportunities to 1,805 youth and women

21. I.R. 1.1 Number of Clients benefiting from ME training - - > 5,275 I.R. 1.3 Number of clients benefiting from start-up capital funds - - > 1,250 I.R. 1.4 Percent increase in level of income of clients - - > 20% I.R. 2.1 Number of graduates receiving job placement, counseling and training services - ->10,025 I.R. 2.2 Number of graduates accessing and retaining employment opportunities - ->2,005 I.R. 2.4 Increase in income level above minimum wage - - >20% JOBS recorded success of 6,206 clients receiving ME training JOBS recorded success of 1,508 benefiting start-up capital funds JOBS achieved success of 35% increase in level of income for job creation clients JOBS recorded success of 12,935 benefiting from counseling and job placement training JOBS recorded success of 1,805 graduates accessing and retaining employment opportunities JOBS achieved success of 36% increase in income above minimum wages (Kano & Cross River states) JOBS Successes by Indicator

22. The End…Questions & Answers