Job and Business Development Services Initiative (JOBS Nigeria)

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Job and Business Development Services
Initiative(JOBS Nigeria)

• Presentation of the project and its successes
  Technical Work Planning Retreat
• May 9, 2006

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Presentation will answer the who, what, where,
why and how of JOBS

• What is JOBS?
• WHO is being targeted?
• WHERE WHY is JOBS being implemented?
• HOW is this project being implemented?
• WHAT successes have been achieved?

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WHAT IS JOBS?

• Job and Business Development Services Initiative
• (JOBS Nigeria)
• Employment Generation (Job creation Job
  Placement)
• Apprenticeship/Livelihood Training
• Life-skills Training (Leadership Business
  Ethics Health Hygiene HIV/AIDS, Conflict,
  etc.)
• Access to Start-up Capital/Microcredit
• Business Development (Advisory) Services

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Goal of JOBS Nigeria

• Is to promote broad-based economic growth in
  Nigeria by providing sustainable
  employmentgeneration and business development
  services to the poor and vulnerable.

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JOBS Strategic Objectives

1. Create access to practical microenterprise
   development services.
2. Develop access to viable employment-generation
   services
3. Strengthen the operational and sustainability of
   job creation and placement services

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WHO IS JOBS TARGETING?
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JOBS APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING
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• Youth at Work in Kano

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Youth in Cross River State
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WHY is JOBS Being Implemented?

• General Findings of the Unemployment Situation in
  Nigeria
• Poor attitude to work by youth
• Vocational-technical institutions provide
  training that is formal, specialized few
  connections, if any, are made with private and
  public sector job opportunities.
• Self employment, where most jobs within the
  Nigeria economy exist, receives little attention
• Low self-esteem among youth, especially girls
• Vocational skills not consistent with market
  needs
• Limited access to micro-finance/financial-services
  
• Inadequate business development services

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Why JOBS Nigeria?

• The socio-economic and political growth prospects
  of Nigeria depend, in part, on how well its youth
  are integrated into the mainstream of the
  economy
• Youth between the ages of 18 to 34 years
  represent the largest demographic portion of the
  unemployed in Nigeria

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Why JOBS Nigeria (contd)?

• Youth are currently 72.2 of the urban unemployed
  and 68.4 of the rural unemployed.
• Pronounced Youth restiveness in Nigeria, is in
  part a result of lack of jobs for unskilled,
  out-of-school youth as well for the increasing
  number of graduates.

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The Mission of OIC International

• It is to improve the quality of life of
  low-income, disadvantaged individuals in
  developing countries through the provision of
  sustainable human resource development services

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New Paradigm in Job Creation

• The JOBS program is implementing a new workforce
  development model that concentrates on developing
  the informal sector by offering business
  development training that is demand-driven,
  market-relevant and sustainable.
• JOBS helps to promote the advancement of girls
  education and provides training to the poor and
  vulnerable to gain marketable business
  skills/strategies and economic management tools
  that is helping to alleviate poverty.

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Employment Generation Approaches
Traditional Model
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Employment Generation Approaches
Modern (Market-Driven) Model
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JOBS Pre-Implementation Strategy

• Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
• Baseline and Livelihood Studies
• Design and implementation of long-term Community
  Development Plans
• Training and capacity building for CBOs and oil
  company staff (if necessary) in sustainable
  community development approaches and
  methodologies
• Development of communication strategies and
  public relations.

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JOBS Implementation Strategy

• Employment Generation Services
• Job Creation
• Business Development Services
• Capacity Strengthening of Vocational Training
  Institutions

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Career Counseling

• Application
• Counseling
• Orientation

Job Creation
Job Placement

• Training
• Mentorship
• Job creation
• Business Advisory
• Services (BDS)

• Training
• Apprenticeship
• Job Placement
• Follow-up/
• Monitoring

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Key Project Successes

• JOBS has provided microenterprise training to
  6,206 youth and women
• JOBS has provided mentoriship attachments to 525
  aspiring entreprenuers and apprenticeship
  training to 2,901 youth and women
• JOBS has facilitated linkages to start-up capital
  to 1,508 participants of the program
• JOBS has provided job placement training and
  counseling to 12,935 youth and women
• JOBS has provided employment opportunities to
  1,805 youth and women

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JOBS Successes by Indicator

• I.R. 1.1 Number of Clients benefiting from ME
  training - - gt 5,275
• I.R. 1.3 Number of clients benefiting from
  start-up capital funds - - gt 1,250
• I.R. 1.4 Percent increase in level of income of
  clients - - gt 20
• I.R. 2.1 Number of graduates receiving job
  placement, counseling and training services -
  -gt10,025
• I.R. 2.2 Number of graduates accessing and
  retaining employment opportunities - -gt2,005
• I.R. 2.4 Increase in income level above minimum
  wage - - gt20

• JOBS recorded success of 6,206 clients receiving
  ME training
• JOBS recorded success of 1,508 benefiting
  start-up capital funds
• JOBS achieved success of 35 increase in level of
  income for job creation clients
• JOBS recorded success of 12,935 benefiting from
  counseling and job placement training
• JOBS recorded success of 1,805 graduates
  accessing and retaining employment opportunities
• JOBS achieved success of 36 increase in income
  above minimum wages (Kano Cross River states)

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