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Digital Skills 4 Jobs and Income

Title of the Project:

Digital Skills 4 Jobs and Income

Country:

Germany

Geographical presence:

South Africa

Status of the project:
start date, duration:

2020 - 2024

Project website:

https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/92020.html

Geographical impact of project:

national

Funds available for the project:

4 Mio €

Implementation level:

in support of low income and developing countries

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Description of the project
South Africa has one of the highest NEET rates (Not in Education, Employment or Training) of young and adolescent people worldwide – women are especially affected. At the same time, companies lack well-trained experts to ensure their competitiveness and capacity for growth, particularly for the digital transformation and the future of work. Therefore, this project targets young South Africans (14-35 years) and focuses explicitly on young women and girls. It promotes labour market relevant digital competencies to increase their employability. More in detail, the #eSkills4Girls project aims to:

1. Improve employment perspectives for 900 young women within the scope of the digital transformation
2. Improve digital skills of 600 women in three training programs at TVET colleges
3. Constructing a female mentor’s network with female executives and role models
4. Provide access to demand-orientated skills development through supporting 2000 young people in selected innovative, non-formal training measures
5. Foster the improvement of recruitment policies of 150 medium-sized companies by supporting 500 HR specialists in the introduction and implementation of new, gender-sensitive approaches to identify applicants with the company’s digital skills in demand

Area of focus of the project:
– Focus on South African Youth (aged 14 to 35 years)
– Improve employment perspective for young women
– Improve digital skills of women
– Develop female mentorship network
– Improve companies’ recruitment policies

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Desafío 4.0

Title of the Project:

Desafío 4.0

Country:

Germany

Geographical presence:

Argentina

Status of the project:
start date, duration:

July - October 2020

Project website:

https://www.desafio4punto0.com.ar/

Geographical impact of project:

national

Funds available for the project:

7,500 €

Implementation level:

domestic

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Description of the procject:

The project Desafío 4.0 (Challenge 4.0) is an innovative training and mentoring programme that aims to improve digital, analytical and leadership skills of young students and thereby strengthens the employability of Argentine youth, especially girls, in the digital economy. During the project students work in interdisciplinary teams of 5 to address real problems related to Industry 4.0. The programme offers specific tools and training on business development models, agile methods, creative thinking, and digital project management. Desafío 4.0 connects industrial and technology companies, e.g. Bosch, SAP, Siemens, Volkswagen, Phoenix Contact and Festo with motivated students in order to create digital solutions to challenges identified by these companies. This approach generates positive outcomes for all participants as the students get the opportunity to gain knowledge from experts, while the companies benefit from new ideas developed by the students. A future collaboration between the students and companies is also possible and aspired. This project was initiated by the German Chamber of Commerce in Argentina and funded through the EQUALS Digital Skills Fund financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The activity is part of the ExperTS-Programme of GIZ. The companies sponsor the programme partly and provide the mentors and resources if needed and possible.

Area of focus of the project:

  • Young students and apprentices with diverse educational backgrounds
  • Training and mentoring programme for digital skills development
  • 24 young women were chosen to participate in the programme in 2020. The plan is to expand the programme in 2021 with a possible cooperation with Youth Department of the Ministry of Productive Development of Buenos Aires.

 

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Pro-Educação / Basic and Vocational Education and Training

Title of the Project:

Pro-Educação / Basic and Vocational Education and Training

Country:

Germany

Geographical presence:

Mozambique

Status of the project:
start date, duration:

05/2019-06/2022

Project website:

www.giz.de/de/weltweit/20451.html

Geographical impact of project:

national

Funds available for the project:

2 Mio €

Implementation level:

in support of low income and developing countries

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Description of the project:

The 2019 GSMA Global Gender Gap Report indicated that the quantitative gap between female and male mobile phone owners in Mozambique is the third-largest in the world. Even though mobile phone ownership and internet use have increased among Mozambican women over the last years, there are still persistent gender gaps in terms of digital skills as well as access to digital devices and the Internet. If these inequalities are not addressed, they are likely to become more deeply entrenched and to compound the risk of Mozambican girls and women being left behind in the digital transformation. At the same time, graduates from TVET schools in Mozambique face severe challenges to find employment after graduating. To tackle these inequalities and to promote employability for young girls and women, #eskills4girls in the framework of Pro-Educação aims to improve the job perspectives of girls and women through access and use of ICT. To reach this objective, the project cooperates with its partners which comprise formal and non-formal TVET institutions and private sector companies in the four provinces Maputo, Inhambane, Sofala und Nampula.

Area of focus of the project:

  • Development and implementation of competency-based basic ICT training courses especially for girls and women
  • Capacity development of formal and non-formal TVET institutions and their trainers to prepare for the implementation of ICT courses
  • Promote employment opportunities through courses on basic employability skills and entrepreneurship trainings using ICT
  • Integration of ICT programs and tools into already existing TVET courses according to labor market demand.

 

By the end of the project, estimated 600 girls and women will have completed the courses and thereby improved their employment opportunities.