Skills Enhancement for Employment Project (SEEP)

The project is conceptualized under the principles of community based training which promotes income generation and local economic development of disadvantaged groups like Dalits, women, Janajatis. The project is being implemented in five districts -Kanchanpur, Dadeldhura, Baitadi, Bajhang, and Darchula of Far Western Region of Nepal.

Objectives

The Project has an inherent focus on skills enhancement for employment for youth in the far Western Districts in Nepal. Youth in these districts have increased livelihoods options through improved employment opportunities.

  • About 1,200 youth are trained, of whom 70 percent made employable on the basis of the ILO's Training for Rural Economic Empowerment. These youth, of whom 50 percent from socially excluded groups are conflict affected young men and women, age group between 16 and 35 years in the five Far Western Districts of Nepal;
  • Enterprises run in cooperative model by trained youth are in place and functioning well; and
  • Capacity of technical training providers, NGOs and other stakeholders improved.

Tactical planning

The project, on the basis of the ILO’s TREE methodology, aims to systematically identify employment and income generating opportunities at the community level, design and deliver appropriate training programmes with local public and private training providers; and provide the necessary post-training support, for example, providing trainees with cooperative development. By linking training directly to community-determined economic opportunities, the project ensures that skills delivered are relevant. In communities where formal training institutions do not exist, for example in remote rural locations, arrangements for bringing in qualified trainers are made.

For further information please contact:

Mr Madan Raj Joshi
National Project Coordinator
Nepalgunj
Tel: +977 81 523578, 526204
Fax: +977 81 525343
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Ms Nita Neupane
Programme Officer
ILO Office in Nepal
Tel: +977 1 5555 777, 5550 691 ext 119
Fax: +977 1 5550714
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