Youth IT Training, Mentoring and Job Placement

Through the Youth IT Training, Mentoring and Job Placement Project, Counterpart International (Counterpart) prepares disadvantaged youth for long-term careers in the hospitality and tourism sector, hoping to ultimately increase the workforce in this sector. Involvement of youth in the job market will contribute to the country's ongoing efforts to develop a national tourism workforce development program with a special emphasis on assisting out-of-school youth. This demographic will prove vital to the success of this development program and of the country's tourism sector. 
 
The project intends to define and implement a new competency-based employability skills standard to improve the country's work force.  Counterpart will also build upon existing employability standards by strengthening the capacity of the National Institute of Technical Professions (INFOTEP) service providers to teach out-of-school youth the necessary skills to enter into the tourism sector.

Furthermore, the project will build employer capacity to provide mentored work-based learning experience that lead to long-term careers for disadvantaged youth.

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