Pakistan: Sindh Skills Development Project

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The objective of the Sindh Skills Development Project for Pakistan is to support the Government of Sindh in strengthening its training programs to improve the skills set and employability of trainees. There are three components to the project. The first component is support to the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Program (BBSYDP): the program aims to train unemployed youth through short-term training on a contract-basis with performance benchmarks; the second component is establish demand-driven institutional training programs: this pilot sector program will competitively select hundred training programs for re-design or creation to meet demonstrated local labor market needs; and the third component is capacity building of Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA): this component will strengthen Sindh TEVTA in implementation of second component , collecting and using performance information, and policymaking.