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Soft skills training as a strategy to address youth unemployment

Providing soft skills training and supporting youth people in running their own economic activities as a strategy for reducing unemployment to youth in the Kisarawe district.

Municipality

TZ
Kisarawe, Pwani,

Category / Sub-Category / Topic

Education, Informal education

Type of investment needed

Grant

Associated SDGs

The challenge

Unemployment is a big problem in Tanzania, especially in the Kisarawe District where almost 8 out of 10 youth don’t have a formal job.

With our initiative we are expecting to help solve the unemployment and school dropout problems among youth in the Kisarawe District.


The project

Our project targets youth who dropped out of school and/or are jobless aged 18 - 35 years old from a few villages of the Kisarawe District, by providing different soft skills training. The initiative will be run in collaboration with the Folk Development College and the Local Government. The last will provide loans to youth to help them run their economic activities. 

We intend to train groups of 10 to 20 youth depending on the availability of locations.

Through the trainings, we will introduce youth to different economic activities and will also support them technically and financially by providing machinery and all materials required for their ventures. 

We will monitor their activities until they are able to stand up for themselves to operate or run economic activities.


Know more...

Kisarawe district is among the eight districts found in the coast region. The place is dominated by Zaramo people, a tribe whose behavior is predominantly led by traditional culture, and that promotes early marriage and pregnancies. The district has many potential resources such as availability of fertile land and forest, mining resources, etc. which allows many economic activities such as agriculture, beekeeping and livestock farming, also it is near to the Capital, Dar es Salaam, where a market for every product is available. 

Provision of soft skills training to youth will bring a great impact economically and culturally.


  • Identification of specific activities to youth, such as for youth who opt to deal with agriculture, livestock, beekeeping, and small business. 
  • After identification, we will examine the softskills required under here location.
  • Performing training to youth on the specialized skills analyses. 
  • In addition, the activity of tracking challenges, evaluate the altitude of society after and before softskills training and evaluation of stakeholders capacity for project progress will be perfomed continuosly through the project lifetime.  
  • Youth engaged in specialized economic activities.
  • Effective utilization of endowed resources.
  • Government revenue will increase by receiving income from taxes.
  • Youth mobilization towards behavior change increase.

Expected Impact:

  • We expected to help reduce the rate of unemployment by 45% per year in the Kizarawe district and contribute with the economic growth.
  • Our initiative will be continuously monitoring the youth progress for at least every 3 months in order to make sure that we provide them with support.
  • Tanzania Education Network
  • Folk development college
  • Plan International – Kisarawe branch
  • Women and Community Development

Investment

(*): In kind/pro bonus

(**): Financing

Goods and inputs
Funds
Needed
Covered
Solicited

Goods and Supplies (*) (**)

u$s 24000.00

u$s 0.00

u$s 24000.00

Services
Funds
Needed
Covered
Solicited

Services (*) (**)

u$s 98000.00

u$s 0.00

u$s 98000.00

Human resources
Funds
Needed
Covered
Solicited

Human Resources (*) (**)

u$s 30000.00

u$s 2000.00

u$s 28000.00

Others
Funds
Needed
Covered
Solicited

Others (*) (**)

u$s 8000.00

u$s 2000.00

u$s 6000.00

TOTAL AMOUNTS:

u$s 160000.00

u$s 4000.00

u$s 156000.00

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