how are large number of men and women deprived of vocational training
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Girls, more than women or boys, lack access to financial capital and have limited opportunities to gain education, knowledge, and skills that can lead to economic advancement. Inadequate policy frameworks and inequitable gender norms also often create barriers to girls' economic advancement.
The adolescent girls' advocacy & leadership initiative (Agali) of the Public Health Institute recently launched a global research report analysing adolescent girls' economic empowerment strategies and made recommendations for policymakers, funders and practitioners.
The Adolescent Girls' Economic Empowerment report explores the factors that contribute to adolescent girls' economic empowerment and examines three main approaches – financial, employment, and life-skills and social support strategies.
For a sound financial strategy, it is important to link workforce development and employment strategies with market needs and opportunities. We recommend that programmes offering vocational training and employment opportunities should include these initiaitives to match market requirements and opportunities. This approach not only requires designing a quality training process that builds girls' technical and soft skills, but also enlists the commitment of employers to hire participants.
Workforce development and employment strategies are critical to helping girls lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Although adolescent girls primarily enter the workforce to support their families financially, studies have shown that they also value mobility, opportunities for friendship, and greater autonomy that may come with employment. Therefore, safe and appropriate employment opportunities can strengthen their economic status, while improving social welfare and future job prospects.
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Despite the clear benefits of investing in employment opportunities for girls, the global economic crisis has created serious challenges for youth employment. According to the International Labour Organisation's 2012 report, the global youth unemployment rate has risen since 2007 and medium-term projections suggest little improvement in the next few years. Further, macroeconomic conditions create particular challenges for adolescent girls, who experience greater rates of unemployment compared to boys in nearly every region of the world.
Given these challenges, vocational training can play a key role in helping girls get jobs. Vocational training typically includes development of technical capacity, entrepreneurship, and business skills. Ideally, vocational training is demand-oriented and builds specific skills tailored to prospective employers' needs. Other vocational training programmes help girls build a wide set of soft skills, such as conflict resolution, team building, and communication, which they can use in a variety of jobs. While soft skills may complement demand-oriented training, research demonstrates that the success of vocational training depends primarily on programmes' ability to target and help girls develop the actual technical and business skills needed by employers.
Beyond tailoring vocational training programmes to employers' needs, evaluations demonstrate the importance of establishing formal commitments from them to hire participants. Research suggests that job placement rates are higher for vocational training programmes that are able to secure hiring commitments from participating firms and other corporate partners than programmes that do not establish these partnerships from the outset.
Girls' economic empowerment not only depends on availability of jobs, but also on protective policy environments and community-based support for their entry into the workplace. Advocates and policymakers must ensure that laws promote gender equality in the workplace and incentivise employers to create girl-friendly work environments.
Consider these two case studies.
The World Bank's adolescent girls initiative in Liberia promotes productive employment and economic empowerment through technical skills training. The initiative provided technical training in skills identified by prospective employers, and secured job placements for graduates in catering, painting, driving, and professional cleaning. While the final evaluation is not yet available, a survey showed that participants experienced a 50% increase in employment and 115% increase in incomes.
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Our Programme clearly focuses on women who comes from a very poor backgrounds [rather slums] who are looked down upon by men in their families; The men also in the family work in menial jobs such as Labourers, Vegetable Vendors, pavement petty shops, etc., who are very rude. But the women who are mostly domestic servants earn a meager income to support their family, naturally these women are deprived of education and health care, totally neglected in the family, which creates great impact on their minds. In addition to this, they have to face the harassments of dowry, domestic violence etc., which make them totally depressed and hence not capable/confident to face the world.
In taking into consideration these facts, this programme is mainly focused on women empowerment and their health related programmes and community development at large. We organise regular Health Check ups, Health related awareness programmes, Hygiene awareness programmes and also Skill training like Tailoring, Beautician Course, Crafts & Jewellery making, Tuition for school going girls etc., to improve their economical empowerment.
And also it is observed that these kind of skill training programme will give them more avenues to earn their living. These Vocational training skills (tailoring and beautician courses) will enable women and girls to learn and enhance their skills, which goes a long way in improving their confidence levels by making them self reliant.
The YMCA centre imparts sewing and embroidery skill training to the young women in Kumbalgodu area. So far the centre trained around 800 women in sewing and entrepreneurship skills which empowered them to acquire suitable employment.
Many students trained in our centre are working in the Garment companies in Bangalore and some of them have set up their own tailoring shops and earning well to support their families
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