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SASA-VET - System Approach to Strengthening Agribusiness Vocational Education and Training
FunderEuropean Commission
Funder Contribution €400,000.00
Funded underERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Capacity Building in Vocational Education and Training
Project code101129213
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To build sustainable livelihoods for the fast-growing young population living in rural and semi-rural areas in Uganda, attractive, qualitative and competent Vocational Education and Training (VET) centres are crucial to respond to the needs of the labour market and build the next workforce generation. The West Nile region, where over 700,000 refugees have settled, present an emerging dynamic in the food system, whereby rapid urbanization, population growth, and refugee influxes create challenges but also new income opportunities for entrepreneurs along the value chain. With the proposed project we use a Systemic Approach to Strengthening Agribusiness Vocational Education and Training (SASA-VET) in West Nile in Uganda to contribute to agri-business job opportunities as wage or self-employment for the growing workforce and enable rural economic development. The envisioned impact is that VET centres are structurally strengthened to enable young men and women to grasp agri-business income opportunities in the modern economy in rural and semi-rural areas.The specific objectives are:1. Institutionalisation of innovative skills training in curricula allows four VETs to better meet the skills need for wage employment and self-employment.2.Inclusive and practical learning methodologies improve quality, effectiveness, and attractiveness of four VET centres in West Nile.3. VET graduates are linked to an enabling environment.4. The four VETs are well connected with local economy stakeholders.Gender and inclusion is a cross-cutting theme. Working together with four formal VET institutes in West Nile provides us with the opportunity to create a high-quality educational pathway model, focused on formal and non formal (community) training that benefits the marginalized groups, such as rural youth, women, and refugees. This pathway model helps to assure inclusive access to education with additional support for youth during their learning process.
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To build sustainable livelihoods for the fast-growing young population living in rural and semi-rural areas in Uganda, attractive, qualitative and competent Vocational Education and Training (VET) centres are crucial to respond to the needs of the labour market and build the next workforce generation. The West Nile region, where over 700,000 refugees have settled, present an emerging dynamic in the food system, whereby rapid urbanization, population growth, and refugee influxes create challenges but also new income opportunities for entrepreneurs along the value chain. With the proposed project we use a Systemic Approach to Strengthening Agribusiness Vocational Education and Training (SASA-VET) in West Nile in Uganda to contribute to agri-business job opportunities as wage or self-employment for the growing workforce and enable rural economic development. The envisioned impact is that VET centres are structurally strengthened to enable young men and women to grasp agri-business income opportunities in the modern economy in rural and semi-rural areas.The specific objectives are:1. Institutionalisation of innovative skills training in curricula allows four VETs to better meet the skills need for wage employment and self-employment.2.Inclusive and practical learning methodologies improve quality, effectiveness, and attractiveness of four VET centres in West Nile.3. VET graduates are linked to an enabling environment.4. The four VETs are well connected with local economy stakeholders.Gender and inclusion is a cross-cutting theme. Working together with four formal VET institutes in West Nile provides us with the opportunity to create a high-quality educational pathway model, focused on formal and non formal (community) training that benefits the marginalized groups, such as rural youth, women, and refugees. This pathway model helps to assure inclusive access to education with additional support for youth during their learning process.
