Purpose/Specific Objective of Phase 1: Skills based opportunities for sustainable income gen-eration for informal economy workers have improved: - 20’000 young people – 40% women – trained by 2014, and qualification certified; - 40 public and private training institutions able to pro-vide modern, competency based trainings; - Adequate employment support services established for job placement or to start in self-employment.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner Swiss Non-profit Organisation Swisscontact
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    2’000’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    1’976’012
Project phases	Phase 1 01.12.2011 - 31.08.2015   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	EDUCATION OTHER SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES EDUCATION
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Vocational training Employment policy and administrative management Basic life skills for youth and adults
  Cross-cutting topics	The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Basketpooled multi-donor fund
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F08144