Putting the First Brick to Make the Biggest Wall

Development SolicitorsBangladesh

University of Dhaka

Experience• Youth unemployment is a serious problem in

Bangladesh like most of the countries of the world, but the features are somewhat different.

• The common factors of youth unemployment that we have experienced are-– Slow pace of job creation– Lack of Skill– Mismatch between supply and demand in the labor market– Social Evaluation of work– Type of Livelihood

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• We have surveyed 100 fresh graduates of the University of Dhaka who are struggling to get into the job market.

• The survey results pointed out many reasons behind youth unemployment among which we picked two main reasons to work with.

Discover

Problem Tree

Effect

Cause

Youth Unemployment

Social Evaluation of Work

Mismatch Between Demand and Supply

Lack of experience

Practical Irrelevance of

education system

Cultural Perspectives

Emphasis on family status

Gender sensitivity

Solution

• Launching a ‘Mandatory Internship project’ in the public universities for students of Social Science Faculty.

• The main purpose of our project will be to produce skilled and experienced youth according to the demand of the job market.

• The social evaluation of work will also be challenged through the project.

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• Initially our target population will be 1000 unemployed fresh graduates from the faculty of social science of the University of Dhaka.

• The rationale behind choosing this target group is that presently there is no internship program available for the students of social science in Bangladesh.

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• We will execute this plan through creating a collaboration between the government and public universities.

• There will no extra cost in implementing this project because the existing government infrastructures will be utilized and remuneration and production will be leveled.

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• The target populations will gain-6 months work experienceIncrease in technical skillsPractical relevance which will be useful both in

further studies and works.Awareness and will be able to challenge social,

cultural and gender sensitive issues.

Solution Tree

Mandatory Internship Program

Social Evaluation of Work challenged

Mismatch Between Demand and Supply

tackled

Experience increased

Practical relevance of

education system

increased

Cultural Perspectives addressed

Emphasis on family status challenged

Gender sensitivity addressed

Planned Results and Outcomes

• Our team will spend 90 hours on the solution in a month

• We are expecting to reach 1000 young unemployed people per year initially.

• We will engage 25 young people for the purpose of this project