The Role of Partnerships in Youth Skills Development

By the end of the first five years project phase CAP YEI had directly reached 8911 youth and approximately 6000 indirectly and estimated that their cost per trainee had decreased to $400-500 USD. This increased efficacy was attributed to CAP YEI long-term relationship with various stakeholders and improved mobilization of youth. In addition CAP YEI revised its curriculum to place greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and life skills training modules not only as a response to increasing needs of the individual youth to pursue self-employment or multiple earning strategies but those of employers and businesses partners who are consulted often to provide feedback to update the curriculum to fit into the local job and entrepreneurship context.CAP YEI sought new and diverse opportunities to broaden the reach of the BEST model. CAP YEI’s plan for the second phase of MCF funding then (2015) was largely an expansion of the BEST model (beginning of second phase in September 2016) in different settings aimed at increasing the program’s scalability and sustainability. CAP YEI also planned to disseminate its model through collaboration with other partners including government VTCs’.