Guinea - Stepping Up Skills Project

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The objective of this Stepping Up Skills Project is to boost the employability and employment outcomes of Guinean youth in targeted skills programs. There are three components to the project, the first component being fund for skills and employability. The Fund will support new two to three year professional training programs adhering to international certifications and delivered through a Public Private Partnership, or PPP. It will: (a) contribute to reforms by incentivizing and supporting innovative approaches to improve skills, employability, and employment; and (b) create opportunities to design and test new training program models with a view to improving quality and relevance. The second component is the Education to Employment (E2E) program. The E2E program will provide unemployed graduates a career pathway to professional opportunities in training, internships, jobs, or self-employment through incentive-based PPP contracts. Finally, the third component is the institutional support and regulatory framework. By allocating resources directly to training institutions and introducing more spending flexibility, the competitive fund encourages a paradigm shift in institutional management and governance.