Youth Employment Generation in Egypt Conference

Convention Center – Smart Village19 May 2013

Egypt ICT Trust Fund

Partner’s VisionUsing Information and Communication TechnologyPoverty alleviation

Egypt ICT Trust FundFoster 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

Phase I2002 - 2007

Phase II2007 - 2012

Phase III2012 - 2017

• 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

Egypt ICT Trust Fund in 10 Years

• 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

Partners

Main Working Pillars

Development of M/SEs through the potential of ICT / YSEP

Contribution in Knowledge Society establishment

Human Development

People with Disabilities

NGOs and Telecenters

Education

Main Working Pillars

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

Development of M/SEs through the potential of ICT / YSEP

Youth Employment Generation Program

Design TrainingDeliver TOT

Deliver training / workshopsMonitoring / Follow Up

Program evaluationWorkable ModelsDocumentation

Lessons LearnedKnowledge Sharing

Scaling Up

Planning / Preparation

Implementation

Evaluation

Dissemination

Selection CriteriaAnnouncing training Selection of trainees

Main Program’s Pillars

Technical Vocational and

Educational Training

Youth Social Entrepreneurship

ProgramICT for M/SEs

Capacity Building for CSOs / NGOs

ICT 4 MSMEs

# of NGOs participated in MSMEs TOT

# of MSMEs trained on soft skills, IT and business skills

% of trained MSMEs with special needs

% of trainees applied the acquired ICT skills

YSEP

# of attendees in the awareness sessions

# of entrepreneurs trained

# of business plans developed

% of the entrepreneurs are linked with funding agencies

VET and Employment

of trainees received training on basic IT and soft skills

# of trainees received training on advanced soft skills/engineering/web design/ programming/graphic advertisement.

Program’s Indicators

30 Main Indicator

40% Qualitative indicator

Program’s Strategy

35% of the beneficiaries are

women

Outreach to youth through awareness and

training

Ensuring the principle of partnership in development

Development of the training content

Integration of at least 10% of people with disabilities

Focus on marginalized and disadvantaged

places

First Pillar: ICT for M/SEs

Goal

Project Team

NGOs / Youth Centers / Telecenters

Capacity building and TOT

M/SEs Training

Gov. 1

Gov. 2 Gov. 4 Gov .n

Gov. 3 Gov ...…

Development of of ICT services (Training kits, partnerships, awareness,

marketing…)

First Pillar: ICT for M/SEsImplementation Mechanism I

Online registration

Receive Toolkits packages

Advocacy

Implementation Mechanism IIFirst Pillar: ICT for M/SEs

• Training of 1852 M/SEs

• 10% Disabled ppl

• 125 trainer

• Distribution of 320

training packages through

“Kayanak“ network

56%

10%

12%

22%

Application of the training skills

set electronic accounting sys-temdevelop project websiteUsing e-market servicesusing microsoft office

First Pillar: ICT for M/SEsOutputs

Capacity Building Increase Productivity Income Increase

Second Pillar: YSEP

Goal

Implementation MechanismSecond Pillar: YSEP

Phase III: In-Kind Contributions

Phase II: "Knowledge" Training and ToT Networking Mentorship

Phase I: "Competition"Web Development Communications Partnerships

• Specialized Training

Curriculum

• Training 137 entrepreneur

• 11 trainer

• Networking and Consultancy

Services

• 5 Prizes to best practices

Second Pillar: YSEPOutputs

Capacity Building Encourage community Innovation

Job creation / income Increase

Third Pillar: Technical Vocational Training

Goal

Implementation MechanismThird Pillar: Technical Vocational Training

Market Research- Market survey among NGOs- Needs assessment study for the ICT labor market

Training and Capacity Building- Design and Graphics- Accounting- Customer Service- PC Maintenance

Employment

Third Pillar: Technical Vocational TrainingOutputs

Capacity BuildingNarrowing gap between skills and labor market

needsJob placement / Better

living

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100

120

140

Basic Training Advanced Training Employment

Monitoring and Evaulation

Utilization of resources

Ability of the program

Continuation of program effect

• Program Efficiency

• Program Effectiveness

• Program Sustainability

• 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

Success Factors

Risks and Lessons Learned

Lack of Security & Instability

Hinder Travels

Decrease Youth

Participation

Online Services

Time LimitationFiscal

educational year

Military services

Partnerships &

Motivations

Political Challenges

Operational Challenges

• 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

Sustainability

Eng. Hoda DahrougNational Project Director – Egypt ICT Trust Fundwww.ictfund.org.eg

hdaroug@mcit.gov.eg

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