Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2022 Nominee

Youth Employment and Employability Platform


Description

Youth Employment and Employability Platform (YEEP), as the Youth Empowering Project (YEP) is the direct response to Rwandan Youth workforce especially young women and other young disadvantaged people that are either leaving academia or have already entered Labor Force, because it will be the bridge between education community and employers to build the capacity of later workers.
 Mission: YEEP is mainly aimed at adding value to the Rwandan Youth workforce by Bridging their Skills Gap through digital and other enabling tools or programs
Below are specific objectives:
1) Raise awareness about employment opportunities in Rwanda.
2) Support informal education as an important skill at work to empower young people and women to efficiently develop and use their skills to get into employment
3) Empowering the future workforce through internships as work experience:
4) Certify workforce soft skills they have to perform their job successfully and advance in career: At least 5,000 job candidates or transition workers will be certified in the first year.
5) Empower Youth, especially young women and young people with disabilities to become job creators not only job seekers
6) Develop the best leading Big Data-based Labor Market Information System (BD-LMIS) in Rwanda:
 Target Communities:
Youth in general and especially young women and young people with disabilities.
 Programs:
YEEP ADDED VALUES PRODUCTS:
Professional Skills Certification
Internship Placement
Career Mentoring backed with Digital Community Program
DELIVERY OF YEEP PRODUCTS TO TARGETED COMMUNITIES:
ICT Tools & Services to Support YEEP Programs
Career Development Centers in Kigali and each Province of Rwanda
YEEP Dissemination
MAKE YEEP A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT: Via Rwanda Job Day and BusY Conference
Resulted impacts:
The qualified workforce in Rwanda,
More jobs and hire more people,
Big Data-based Labor Market Information System (BD-LMIS)

Project website

https://www.jobinrwanda.org/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C7. E-learning
  • AL C7. E-employment 2022
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

Coverage
  • In 5 districts in Kigali city and provinces of the country; East, West, South and North., Rwanda

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2019

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • All Rwandan workforce in the world especially youth

Replicability

To deliver YEEP programs to the target community, the main national Career Center will be established at Kigali at the headquarters of the Job in Rwanda Foundation and will supported by other four CDCs in four districts in each province of the country; East, West, South and North.Step by step, YEEP programs can be replicable in all districts of Rwanda where the CDC will be continuously decentralized to the Umurenge level.


Sustainability

YEEP will result in a sustainable project because YEEP Added Value Products after being developed and initiated, they can be themselves the source of funds which means they can be sold and bought by the employers and education communities.


WSIS values promotion

By transforming the Labor Market Experience of Rwanda from Agriculture based Economy to the Knowledge, ICT, and Services oriented Economy, YEEP will promote WSIS values through its ICT based and enabled Infrastructure and programs that empower and build the capacity of Rwandan workforce.


Entity name

Job in Rwanda Foundation (JRF)

Entity country—type

Rwanda Civil Society

Entity website

https://www.jobinrwanda.org/

Partners

J.I.R ltd, KG 28 Ave #72 - KimihururaP.O. Box 4062 Kigali, RwandaMobile: +250 78 830 09 52, info@jobinrwanda.com