Project Location: Jhenaidah and Jashore
Project Authority: Roads and Highways Department (RHD)
Financier: Funded by World Bank (WB)
Brief description of main deliverables/outputs:
Ensured skill development training and providing post-training entrepreneurship support, business linkage, promoting support for wage and self-employment employment support mentorship program, business counselling, women empowerment and economic engagement support for 1089. affected populations most of the women beneficiaries;
Actual Services provided by SAMAHAR:
- Review approach and beneficiary criteria adopted under the project and design instrument for beneficiary listing and methods of their scrutiny, sorting and selection inclusive of all social groups and vulnerabilities
- Review all relevant project data and baseline data on existing livelihood pattern and opportunities
- Setup the training center with all facilities with furniture, fixture, training equipment, fan, provision of pure drinking water, separate toilets for male and female trainees etc.
- Conduct household survey using the survey instrument provided by the MIS cell. The survey will be conducted electronically using Tab
- Design and carry out training need assessment survey
- Identify different groups and implement the skill and social development program
- Conduct assessment and issue professional certificates for completion of Skills development training
- Collecting labor market information and using it to identify the relevant pathway for social development and employment for targeted beneficiaries.
- Design and implementing the stakeholder engagement and social inclusion strategy
- Organize module/curriculum adaptation workshop with respected stakeholders.
- Develop modules of life skills, mentoring and leadership training and prepare session plan.
- Conduct training on social norm and gender-sensitization.
- Designing skills development for social development and employment pathways.
- Preparation and implementation of Income and Livelihood Restoration Program Plan
- Conduct assessment on viability of options of alternative occupations
- Analyzing Market to Generate Information for Affected Persons on Potential Market Opportunities
- Training on Small Business and Commercial Activities, Small Business management and financial Training, raining on establishment/re-establishment of small enterprises.
- Conduct training on social norm and gender-sensitization the training contents
- Collecting labor market information and using it to identify the relevant channel for social development and employment for targeted beneficiaries
- Identification of vulnerable groups including female headed households and provide skills enhancement training for vulnerable persons/ households
- Follow up, monitor, and supervise the trainee’s progress and performance, and facilitate linkages with potential employers for future employment opportunities.
- Disbursement of Grant to Training Participant
- Design and Delivery of Personal Finance Program
- Integrated approach at the local levels integrated with master communication strategy
- Identify eligible beneficiaries for enterprise development.
- Create platform to facilitate job placement/ skill development/business facilitation through networking and market development considering global job/business demands.
- Ensure 86% job placement (Self/wage employment) of trainees.
- Development of user friendly Menu-driven software for monitoring progress
- Support to PMU for project monitoring, evaluation and validation activities which will be conducted by the MIS Cell and preparation of reports.