CONGO - Rep. Skills Development for Employability Project

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The objective of the Skills Development for Employability Project is to improve job and entrepreneurship skills for vulnerable urban youth in order to improve their labor market insertion and earnings. There are two components to the project. The first component is the skills training, job insertion and entrepreneurship support for vulnerable youth and micro-entrepreneurs. This first component includes three sub-components: finance; skills training for micro-entrepreneurs; and apprenticeship and functional literacy training for out-of-school adolescent youth. Finally, the second component is to strengthen the technical, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation capacity of Ministry of Technical and Professional Education, Qualifying Training and Employment (METPFQE). The component will support activities of a technical nature in order to strengthen the capacity of METPFQE to better plan, coordinate and support the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in the country with the objective of improving its efficiency and quality, while also increasing access in line with present and future labor market demands.