Description of the
Experience:
This practice targets
predominantly unemployed young persons and engages them in life skill and
professional development training prior to facilitating their placement in paid
internship positions where they could apply their skills and develop professional
experience.
Activities:
- Resource Mobilization
- Programme Planning
- Curriculum Development
- Participant and Partner Mobilization
- Training
- Internship Placement
Monitoring - Relevant Adjustments
Results:
The Primary success of this
programme is the economic engagement and empowerment of almost three thousand
previously unemployed citizens of St Kitts and Nevis
Challenges:
The major challenge of this
programme is dealing with and reversing the lack of personal ambition and
industriousness and a sense of complacency, entitlement and apparent disdain of
honest work demonstrated to some degree by a number of participants.
Lessons Learned:
The success of a programme
of this nature requires the support and commitment of numerous partners across
sectors.
Consistent monitoring,
evaluation and adjustment at all levels of implementation is ideal.
Linking participant
compensation directly to their performance is ideal for encouraging high
performance and re-enforce the connection between the two in the workplace.
Training as a prerequisite
for each participant to earn internship positions is critical to enhancing
their capacities and shape their understanding, expectation and general level
of preparedness for the work experience.
Contact person details:
Geoffrey Hanley, Director
Pierre Liburd, Senior Youth
Officer
Telephone : 869-465-2528 or 869-664-9480
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