Programme profile

EYE: Enhancing Youth Employment (Phase 1)

Facilitate the transition of young women and men from education to employment.

Support universities to establish industrial boards in all academic units and to meet the private sector needs
Support vocational education and training (VET) schools to engage with the private sector
Support the Ministry of Education to establish a higher education management information system
Strengthen capacity of VETs for provision of more and better career guidance services
Support municipalities in establishing/improving career guidance services for VET students
Facilitate access to advanced training to enable youth to get better skills, and therefore better job opportunities

Support private job matching service providers (JMSP) to develop sustainable business models (business planning and product development)
Build capacity of private job matching service providers (JMSP) to provide value added services
Improve performance of public employment services (PES)
Facilitate partnerships between public and non-public employment services
Strengthen capacity of higher education providers (HEP) for provision of more and better career guidance services
Pilot development of sustainable business models for career guidance centres of public and private HEPs
Institutionalise the occupation of career counsellors

Increase awareness among lead firms on the benefits of investing in business services
Increase range and type of business services to firms in targeted sectors
Support a group of new, growing companies establish an "association of providers of outsourcing services"
Increase awareness among stakeholders of exporting services by addressing barriers to entry

Introduce commercial TV programmes that tackle youth employment issues
Capacity building of journalists in coverage of youth employment/labour market issues
Expand the coverage of youth employment issues in other media (web, radio, and print)

1,600 jobs created as a result of investments facilitated by the project
5,000 young women and men have better skills
32,000 job vacancies advertised through formal job matching services
33,000 young women and men benefited from career guidance services
10 academic programmes have been accredited; 580 students enrolled
10 education providers with effective systems for students’ placement in private sector
CHF 3 million private sector investment leveraged by project interventions in targeted subsectors (ICT, Agro, Retail)
120 young growing companies facilitated by the project.

[Updated February 2016]