The MasterCardFoundation

The Learning, Earning, Saving Initiative

For Sub-Saharan Africa

A program of CAP Youth Empowerment Institute, Kenya

In association with CAP Workforce Development Institute

And supported by MasterCard Foundation.

CAP-Youth Empowerment Institute, (CAP-YEI), is a registered non-profit organization, based at Nairobi, Kenya. CAP YEI's programs are based on experiences and well demonstrated best practices of CAP's Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) model. This model is designed to help vulnerable youth develop labor market oriented employability skills and access placements to easily assimilate into the competitive job market, make informed choices for their self-directed growth and positive citizenship, access higher education and qualification, thrift and savings, peer networking and enterprise development support.

APPROACH

POTENTIAL TRAINING SECTORS

CAP will implement this program through public-private partnerships for its scalability and sustainability. CAP will mobilize youth through following networks in Kenya.

•Ministry of Youth (MOY) Govt. of Kenya

•Partnership with local NGOs

•Network of Youth Organizations

The following are as potential sectors for Basic Employability Skills Training program to e offered y CAP-YEI under this project:-

1. Hospitality 2. Retail

3. Automobile 4. Entrepreneurship Development5. Agriculture & Floriculture 6. Logistics

CAP Youth Empowerment institutePo Box: 50950 - 00100,Ist & 2nd Floors, Kagina BuildingNext to Tuskys Super Market,Buruburu Phase IV,Nairobi.

Ph: 0734880656, 0739132023

This project is located in and suited to addressing critical issues concerning youth in the

paradoxical context of booming economic growth and growing youth unemployability

in Kenya. It fits into the scenario that includes a large youth segment in the population,

an emerging transitional new economy, a

transforming labor market and years of

neglect of the vocational education system.

This proposal intends a) introducing and

adapting the Basic Employability Skills

Training (BEST) a model that has been

tested successfully in Asia and Africa. and b)

encouraging partnerships, exchanges and

cross learning between youth and other

stakeholders from government, vocational

training institutions, businesses and youth

organizations and building the to expand

and sustain the initiatives.

The project will target 17 to 25 year old urban/ suburban youth, primarily the

m a r g i n a l i z e d , i n c l u d i n g s c h o o l d r o p o u t s , y o u n g w o m e n ,

unemployed/underemployed youth, internally displaced youth and migrants under

the influence of a combined skill deficit profile (including both work skill deficits and

self-management skills) that consequently placing them on a life trajectory of chronic

unemployment and vulnerability. CAP Youth Empowerment Institute (YEI) aims at

addressing the employment needs of disadvantaged / unemployed. CAP-YEI will

support vulnerable youth to access training in Job market skills, life skills, savings

education and small business development support. They will also receive access to

internships and jobs placements after the training besides vital pre- and post-job-

placement counseling and support.

This innovative project will facilitate close to 10,000 vulnerable Kenyan youth to

successfully negotiate school-to-work transitions through supportive pathways to

learning, connection to job markets and financial services and small business

development. Spread over two phases, the core period will focus on demonstration of

critical mass and networking to prepare multi stakeholder channels for adoption of the

model's process, tools and practices, while the expansion phase will pursue a more

ambitious agenda for scale –up and sustainability.

About CAPDrawing from an impressive footprint in terms of its approach, training content, methodology and placement support to trainees, the BEST model has been adopted and delivered in many countries of Asia benefiting over 150,000 youth over the past 5 years. Registered in India, US and UK and now in Kenya, and a very strong leadership team and with active support from local NGOs/ CBOs, corporate, business, professional mentors, corporates, international and bilateral donors and government agencies, CAP's current programs and activities are spread across India, Egypt, Tanzania, Northern and Southern Sudan. The CAP Workforce Development Institute is the technical support and consultancy arm of CAP Foundation.

The first project of CAP-YEI is the Learning, Earning, Saving Initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa, supported by MasterCard Foundation and to be implemented with technical support from CAP-Workforce Development Institute (CAP-WDI). Over the next 5 years, this initiative will provide Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) for disadvantaged youth with particular focus on females to get equitable qualitative learning and access promising labor market oriented opportunities, savings and credit that support their pathways to safe and positive futures.