JAKARTA (ILO News): The International Labour Organization (ILO) is organizing a two-day Technical Seminar on Impact and Lessons Learnt on School to Work Transition, from 4 – 5 October at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Jakarta, based on its experience executing the Education and Skills Training project for Youth Employment since 2008.

The seminar will be opened by the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Nina S., the Governor of South Sulawesi, H. Syahrul Yasin Limpo, and the Country Director of the ILO in Indonesia, Peter van Rooij.

Funded by the Government of Netherlands, the four years ILO-EAST Project started in 2008. It is aimed at facilitating school to work transition with an integrated package of services, ranging from (a) back to school interventions for children dropping out of SMP, (b) life skills for SMP, SMA and SMK levels children, (c) Job and Education Counselling with “Guru BK”, (d) entrepreneurship and vocational skills for out of school youths, (e) support to the revitalization of BLKs.

The geographical coverage of the Project includes Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, South Sulawesi, and Aceh provinces; stakeholders from these provinces will be represented at the seminar.

The ILO-EAST Project is now coming to an end, and wishes to present some elements of its impact, including:

• 12,200 junior high school level children in hard to reach areas prevented from child labour, through improved education services, and direct support.
• Training for out of school youths - By the end of 2010, 69 per cent of out of school young women and men trained on vocational and/or entrepreneurship skills were either employed or started a business. The project has been successful not only in recruiting women in non-traditional trainings (mechanic, etc.), but also in facilitating their placement (in garage shops, air-conditioning repair shop etc.), following awareness raising efforts with employers and training providers.
• The project built and piloted a model of tripartite based skills development for out of school youths with Government as a facilitator and training provider, Trade Unions training youths on “Youth Rights at Work”, and Employers accepting the placement of trained youths. The model is documented in a new “4 in 1 Handbook for Training Providers” that was accepted by the Ministry of National Education and will be used by the regional training centers across Indonesia.

The project also wants to share with the Government of Indonesia and with social partners, the methodologies and tools it has piloted during these four years, for replication and upscaling: this is the purpose of the present seminar.

For further information please contact:

• Patrick Daru, Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO-EAST Project, Tel.: +6221 391 3112 ext. 150, Email
  
  Marcel de Brune, the Livelihood Expert, ILO-EAST Project, Tel.: +6221 391 3112 ext. 255, Email
  
  Budi Maryono, National Project Officer for Entrepreneurship, ILO-EAST Project, Tel.: +6221 391 3112 ext. 158, Email
  
  Agapitus Haridanu, National Project Officer for Child Education, ILO-EAST Project, Tel.: +6221 391 3112 ext. 157, Email
  
  Dyah Larasati, National Project Officer for Child Education, ILO-EAST Project, Tel.: +6221 391 3112 ext. 139, Email
  
  Gita Lingga, Media Relation Officer, Tel. : +6221 391 39112 ext. 115, Email