OECS (LC) Skills for Inclusive Growth

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The objective of the OECS (Organization of Eastem Caribbean States) Skills for Inclusive Growth Project (Adaptable Program Lending) is to assist the Government of St. Lucia to increase the employability of youth through private-sector driven training. This objective will be pursued through three means: (i) establishment of a competitive training scheme that finances private sector-driven training and traineeships, (ii) development of an improved policy framework for delivering training by enhancing OECS collaboration in training and introducing occupational standards to increase quality and value of training, and (iii) strengthening institutional capacity to better implement, monitor, and plan training. There are three components to the project: 1) skills training for unemployed youth, which will finance the operation and expansion of a training scheme to train approximately 1,850 unemployed persons from ages 17-30 who will subsequently be placed in an internship with private firms to gain on-the-job experience; 2) improving the policy framework for training, which will finance activities to improve the policy framework for delivering training by enhancing OECS collaboration for training to reap benefits of economies of scale, introducing occupational standards to increase the quality and value of training and transferability of skills; and 3) project management and institutional strengthening, which will finance activities and term staff to implement the project, monitor and evaluate the project's impact, and strengthen the capacities of participating institutions to better implement, monitor and plan.