UPCOMING EVENT

[Target population: 600 unemployed young ladies]

Justification: The desire of DYF to join the Government and other agencies in empowering the youth with employable skills, particularly in batik, is justified for the following reasons:

• It has a mandate and moral right, as an NGO, to create the necessary awareness and to educate its community members in general and the youth in particular.
• It is imperative that the youth of its immediate environ of operations benefit from such initiatives and programmes
• It is an investment in our people and productivity needs of our country
• It enhances the image of the DYF and fulfils the Government’s desire for youth empowerment and self-employment
• The teeming numbers of the youth who are prepared to be empowered have to have access to such training programmes in order to take advantage of the benefits.

Goal: The programme is aimed at reducing the risk of unemployment among the youth of Ga East District and Adentan Municipal Assemblies, by helping to provide them with employable skills in batik making. It is envisaged that the skills acquired would enable the beneficiaries to be gainfully employed to assure themselves of providing their own livelihoods.

Thus, the DYF sees youth training, empowerment and eventual self-establishment as not only local but as a national issue. A successful implementation will not only see the fulfillment of DYF’s desire of providing voluntary service to the youth of Ga East, but also ensuring that the youth of today do not become a burden for Government in terms of growing to become social misfits.

Actions to effect project: Activities to achieve the anticipated results include:

• Baseline needs assessment of the training programme
• Advocacy and sensitization within target communities
• Recruitment and selection of potential trainees
• Training materials development, production and testing
• 3-day training of selected youth
• Monitoring, Supervision and Evaluation of youth establishment, and follow-up training programmes.

 
Project Outcomes: Anticipated results achieved with the implementation of the training programme include:

• 100 youth trained in batik employable skills
• 100 youth given adequate financial/material support for self establishment
• A 10-member Employable Skills Steering Committee formed to coordinate activities of individuals and groups
• Steering Committee members trained on the use of evaluation and reporting systems
• Bond of attachment formed between DYF and trained youth to ensure adequate provision of counseling and other services.
• Evaluation and reporting systems developed to enhance follow-up training programmes (i.e. refresher courses) for trained youth to enhance upgrading of skills.