Upgrading Saint Lucia’s capacity to provide impactful vocational training for marginalized youth

The project “Upgrading Saint Lucia’s capacity to provide impactful vocational training for marginalized youth” addresses the need to upgrade training facilities, capacity of instructors and offer of coordinated services from national stakeholders’ to Saint Lucia’s youth. Building on an established and proven successful learning model implemented by the Centre for Adolescent Renewal and Education (C.A.R.E) organization in the country since 1993 -combining technical training and life skills to the benefit of vulnerable youth- the project will hinge on the resources of the India-UN Development Partnership Fund to primarily refurbish and equip a former secondary school building owned by the Ministry of Education, for which they will make available for use by C.A.R.E. In addition, capacity building of national education system and C.A.R.E. instructors to teach about entrepreneurship development will be developed through a training of trainers on the ILO K.A.B. modules allowing for an encompassing and state of the art approach to the subject. Coordination with the Department of Labour and Unions on job search and rights at work for young people will be enhanced with formal agreements and initial training sessions to the benefit of C.A.R.E. students. Finally, a new tracer questionnaire to be integrated into C.A.R.E. and Ministry of Education operations will be developed and will allow for monitoring of labour market outcomes of future students.

Project symbol

LCA/19/123/99

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Port-of-Spain

Start date

04/11/2019

End date

30/05/2024

Total allocation

1032586

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1012082

Development Partners

United Nations Development Programme

Country/Countries

Saint Lucia

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all