Vocational Training Education Center

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Vocational Training Education Center

Lead by: A Cup For Africa Mission

City Submitted From Date Submitted I. APPLICANT INFORMATION

Name of Organization: A Cup for Africa Mission Name of Project: Rescue Girls at the Risk of Forced Marriage: Vocational Business Number: 854719259RR0001 Founded: 2009

Telephone: 613-600-7695 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cupforafrica.org Mailing Address: Head of Organization Name: Title: Contact Person Name: Title: Tel. & Email:

II.

PROJECT RATIONALE

A. B.

PROBLEM STATEMENT SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

This project will establish a vocational training and education center for young women in Kampala, Uganda. The training offered will be provided free-of-charge and dramatically increase chances of finding employment and becoming an income-generator. Vocational training offered will include culinary, sewing, weaving, housekeeping, and computer literacy. Implementing this vocational education center will empower an opportunity for women to use newly acquired skills to escape poverty. Economic empowerment is created by making women an agent of their own poverty reduction. The vocational training provided will be transferable to many professions in demand in Kampala, Uganda. When Uganda published their 2010 National Development Plan they addressed a priority to increase the quantity and strengthen the quality of human resources. Strategy number five calls for establishing fully functional vocational and technical training programs. The project we are proposing compliments the strategy the Ugandan government is pursuing for successful development. C. TARGETED GROUP

The Target group and beneficiaries of this project are young women aged 14-25. It is expected the majority of these women will come from Nyanama, a suburb of Kampala. Only individuals who are not enrolled in school will be accepted. Both married and not married will be encouraged to enroll. Providing these women with vocational skills can break the economic dependence they have on husbands or fathers, a factor strongly related to one’s vulnerability to poverty. A study by Barbara Nyanzi found that 90% of urban women had autonomous control over spending. Each class would support a maximum of 30 women. Limiting our classrooms to 30 spots will allow for optimal learning D. ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITY

A Cup for Africa Mission (CAM) has been in operation since 2009 with its head office located in Ottawa, Canada. It is a Canadian charity/organization dealing with poverty eradication through education, empowerment, and the supporting of orphans and widows. CAM is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of professional individuals including certified accountants, business management and administration. An office is maintained in Kampala, Uganda. Our organization already possesses many of the resources needed for successful implementation of the project. CAM has a school at our disposable which will be the location of the training taught. This school has 11 available classrooms and can fit an average of 300 people at one time. Many of the tools needed for the vocational training we already possess. We have computers, sewing machines, cooking utensils all available for vocational training. CAM has

partners in the community willing to provide support for practical experience in their vocational field such as The Sun Motel and The ZZana Inn.

III. A.

PROECT FRAMEWORK PROJECT GOAL To empower young women with vocational training in different fields thus enabling them to find financial independence and escape poverty. B. PROJECT OBJECTIVE

1) 2)

To provide women with vocational training in the areas of housekeeping, tailoring, weaving, culinary, and computer literacy. To provide training while including the managerial and technical skills needed for entrepreneurship or wage-labour. 3) To provide the young women with basic equipment to start a job and support them to become organized in community-based working units to effectively manage and run their business.

4)

To establish women’s associations in tailoring and weaving to represent women’s interest, provide them with technical, administrative, and logistical support and promote their products in the formal market. To economically empower poor women to help fulfill the third millennium development goal. C. EXPECTED RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

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Results: Young women able to generate an income and become empowered by their new ability to be economically self-sufficiency. Outcomes: To see the unemployment rate of young women decrease. The ability to earn an income will decrease the number of young women forced into marriage.

D.

MONITORING AND SELF-REVIEW The task of monitoring and overseeing this project would be the responsibility of the personnel in our Kampala office. A project manager would be hired by contract and would be assigned the job description or running any administration needs of the vocational center. Our main office in Ottawa will work with the Kampala office in designing training manuals, written guidelines, and other oversight criteria.

A project can only be deemed successful if the impact it has produced can be traced back to the original project. CAM intends to put heavy emphasis on a self-review to see the impact the vocational center had on the community. Our organization will review this project through a variety of methods. The first method of review will be beneficiary satisfaction. This will involve surveys and participatory group interviews so direct information can be obtained on whether the beneficiaries are satisfied and see income potential from the vocational training. The bulk of review will be completed after the first school year is over. CAM will ask the women to keep in touch and report any entrepreneurship or employment opportunities they have pursued. As our goal is to help young women become income-generators, this method of review is important to us. To gather information on the proficiency of the student’s skills, our organization will assess the quality of the products they have created. Since students enroll in the vocational center will start with little-to-no skill in their chosen skills class, it will be easy to assess the progress individuals have made. The last method of review will be an evaluation by an independent third party organization. This will take place after all other reviews are complete. For an accurate evaluation in measuring effectiveness, CAM will do the strategic thinking behind the evaluation and produce a terms of reference for the third party to follow in evaluation our project.

IV. IMPLEMENTATION & BUDGET A. Month 1 Project Activities • Identify Beneficiaries • Recruitment and Orientation of Staff Members

Month 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10-12

Project Activities Vocational training classes begin Vocational training classes Vocational training classes Vocational training classes Vocational training classes Vocational training classes Vocational training classes Vocational training classes • Establish a community work-hiring bulletin board to advertise available jobs that require vocational skills taught • Encourage beneficiaries to pursue entrepreneurship by allowing weavers and sewers to use CAM resources

B.

IMPACT ON WOMEN AND GENDER EQUALITY

It is known that traditional approaches to society can limit and hinder economic growth and poverty reduction. In Uganda’s 2010 PRSP, section 2.2.5 states that, “women have been marginalized in access to ownership and control over land, education, business ownership, [and] skills development”. Our project of offering free vocational skills education is an effective method of not only increasing economic empowerment, but allowing these women to be agents of their own poverty reduction. After completion, these young women will have obtained skills in demand in the free market. As women start becoming income generators, the economic empowerment will manifest to social empowerment. These women will have more autonomy and decision-making power over their livelihood and be able to rise out of poverty. Spillover benefits from increased market work include the increase in mobility and access to the public domain. The household responsibilities of a woman often keep her close to home while market work encourages women to interact more with the greater community. Respondents in the research of Nyanzi et al. expressed independence not just from men, but from the institution of marriage. C. SUSTAINABILITY

CAM owns many of the resources needed for this project to be operational. Because the vocational center will be free for student to enroll, the operating cost will always fall on our organization. But CAM sees the value in the outcome of this project in the community. Vocational classes will be offered once annually for a span of eight months. This is for two reasons; the first being the cost of operating, the second is over-saturating the community with an abundance of skilled labour thus devaluing the skill. Future funds for the continuation of the vocational center after the start up year will come from private donations and other development donors. In terms of social sustainability, our project is only directed towards young women with intentions of making vocational training more acceptable, accessible and equitable for women. We hope that future generations of women will have better access to skills training and incomegenerating means without facing the barriers they face now. E. BUDGET

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