Resilient Employment and Livelihood through Enterprises and Skills Development

The project will aim to reduce further income loss due to natural disaster to effected SME’s and individuals by enhancing business and skills resilience through better preparedness. To achieve this, the project will deliver trainings, assessments and surveys, capacity building for government officials, including linking informal workers and SME’s to superannuation and micro insurance. The ILO technical tools used for value adding to what was provided pre-cyclone, will be the development of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies in Start & Improve Your Business (SIYB) training, creating efficiency and diversification through Value Chain Management (VCM), local economic development (LED) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). The project target group will be affected SME’s in agriculture, livestock and fishing and inclusive of women, youths and persons with disabilities. The target locations will be in Ra, Ba, Cakaudrove and Bua, with only an LED assessment done ion Lomaiviti. The direct beneficiaries are community based informal SME’s and individuals that operate them, including individuals wanting skills in construction/building. The ultimate beneficiaries are the dependents of the SME’s and individuals who reside in affected provinces, districts and villages. This project will provide direct employment for 350 individuals, support 2,310 dependents in 51 villages in 5 most affected provinces.

Project symbol

FJI/16/50/JPN

Admin unit

CO-Suva

Start date

01/09/2016

End date

31/08/2017

Total allocation

90933

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

90933

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Fiji

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects