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Youth Employment Generation in Egypt Conference. Egypt ICT Trust Fund. Convention Center – Smart Village 19 May 2013. Egypt ICT Trust Fund. Foster sustainable socio-economic development using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
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Youth Employment Generation in Egypt Conference Egypt ICT Trust Fund Convention Center – Smart Village 19 May 2013
Egypt ICT Trust Fund Foster sustainable socio-economic development using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Egypt ICT Trust Fund was established in 2002 as a partnership between UNDP and MCIT
Egypt ICT Trust Fund in 10 Years ICT4D Outreach Communities Fund Raising and Resource Mobilization Local and International loyal Partners Efficient systems( Technical, Financial, M&E) Innovative solutions from and to Community Piloting Projects – Workable Model Sustainable and Scalable Model
Partners Italian cooperation Japanese Governorate International Development Research Center (Canada) – IDRC Islamic Development Bank Microsoft Unlimited Potential World Health Organization (WHO) Telecenter foundation The Swiss agency for development and Cooperation GIZ Vodafone Foundation
Development of M/SEs through the potential of ICT / YSEP • Studying the impact of using ICT in the development of M/SMEs - (IDRC) / MS Egypt (2006- 2009) • E-Academy for the development of SMEs - MS Egypt -(2008 – 2010) • Implementation of M/SMEs services using ICT - Islamic Development Bank - (2010) • Youth Vocational Entrepreneurship Training YVET– MS Egypt (2011 - 2012) • Youth Employment Generation Program - Japanese Gov. (2012 - 2013
Youth Employment Generation Program Selection Criteria Announcing training Selection of trainees Planning / Preparation Design TrainingDeliver TOT Deliver training / workshops Monitoring / Follow Up Implementation Program evaluationWorkable Models Documentation Evaluation Lessons LearnedKnowledge Sharing Scaling Up Dissemination
Main Program’s Pillars Capacity Building for CSOs / NGOs
Program’s Indicators 30 Main Indicator 40% Qualitative indicator
First Pillar: ICT for M/SEs Implementation Mechanism I Project Team Development of of ICT services (Training kits, partnerships, awareness, marketing…) NGOs / Youth Centers / Telecenters Gov. 3 Gov. 1 Gov. ….. Gov. 2 Gov. 4 Gov. n Capacity building and TOT M/SEs Training
First Pillar: ICT for M/SEs Implementation Mechanism II • Receive Toolkits • packages • Advocacy • Online registration
First Pillar: ICT for M/SEs Outputs • Training of 1852 M/SEs • 10% Disabled ppl • 125 trainer • Distribution of 320 training packages through “Kayanak“ network
Second Pillar: YSEP Goal
Second Pillar: YSEP Implementation Mechanism
Second Pillar: YSEP Outputs Specialized Training Curriculum Training 137 entrepreneur 11 trainer Networking and Consultancy Services 5 Prizes to best practices
Third Pillar: Technical Vocational Training Implementation Mechanism
Monitoring and Evaulation • Program Efficiency • Program Effectiveness • Program Sustainability Utilization of resources Ability of the program Continuation of program effect
Success Factors • Using civil society organizations (CSOs) as project partners in different governorates maximized the opportunity to reach large number of targeted youth • The flexibility in responding to the needs of the targeted youth such as tailoring of distance learning package “Kayanak” • Adopting the holistic implementation approach resulted in an integrated development model for youth empowerment including SMEs training, vocational training for employment and entrepreneurship training. • Adopting the participatory approach through: MoY, SFD, MS Egypt, ITI (Edu Egypt program) , ELCC, NGOs. • Harnessing ICTs for sustainable services
Risks and Lessons Learned Political Challenges Online Services Operational Challenges Partnerships & Motivations
Sustainability Partners NGOs will continue in the capacity building program ICT-TF will provide the online services and technical support Given the results achieved by the project, in terms of increasing employment opportunities and promoting entrepreneurship, it is recommended to replicate this project at the national scale in cooperation with concerned bodies
Thank You Eng. Hoda Dahroug National Project Director – Egypt ICT Trust Fund www.ictfund.org.eg hdaroug@mcit.gov.eg