Making the Future to Work Activity

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The goal of this Request for Information (RFI) is to:1. Gather information that will help USAID/Southern Africa better understand the options to provide technical assistance to improve job growth and potential for youth to engage in the South African job market;2. Assist USAID to shape a roadmap for job creation to assist local governments across South Africa to adopt in partnership with the private sector, civil society, provincial, and national government entities; 3. Understand which entities may be interested in the resulting opportunity;4. Establish the feasibility of and approach to obtaining local government buy-in and co-development of a youth employment agenda that addresses private sector constraints to growth and a local government’s willingness to be innovative in the use of national funding instruments such as The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and Skills Education Training Authorities (SETA) funds to ensure that skills development is demand driven; and5. Understand how SETAs can be leveraged to build quality and capacity of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs and how the private sector can engage local government and tertiary training institutions to align the supply of skills with their demands.

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