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8. 8. Life Life Skills Skills Education Education for for Youths ouths (Philippines) (Philippines) Project Budget Grant Awarded: US$ 9,000 Supplementary Grants The implementing organization contributed US$ 5,000. The in-kind contributions were received from implemention organization at CA$ 87,000, TESDA Centre Lingayen US$ 2,000, and Province of Sarangani US$ 16,000. Project Purpose Improve the employement opportunities of underpriviledged Filipino youth through establishing Computer Livelihood Training Centers. One of the youth training centers Project Objectives Expand the project to new communities within the Philippines while continuing to build the capacity to our local partner, the DSWD, so they can sustain the program and continue to implement new Computer Livelihood Training Centers with minimal foreign assistance. Target Audience Under privileged youths in rural and peri-urban areas in the Philippines. Low Cost IT Centres Project Output Fifteen Computer Livelihood Training Centers offering holistic curriculum including computer literacy, life skills education, resource linkages and employment support, training 1,500 underprivileged youths every year. The Project Team The SCALA Project was conceptualized by Engineers Without Borders - Canada, whose project team comprises of George Roter, Parker Mitchell and Sarah Grant. The local implementation partners is the Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Impact From the assessment through stakeholder questionnaires, quarterly centre visits, and yearly evaluations, we found out that the training program completion rate is at 97.5 percent high, with 24 percent finding employment within six month after completion and five percent returning to formal education. 60.8 percent of the participants are female. Training the trainers (1) A computer training center Hardware & Software 250 Pentium II PCs Microsoft Windows 2000 Contact Address Scala Program, Engineers Without Borders (Canada), 188 Davenport Rd., 201, Toronto, ON, M5R 1J2. E-mail: scala@ewb.ca. Website: http://www.scala.ewb.ca www.ewb.ca/scala 36
Computer Computer Li Livelihood Li elihood Training aining Centr Centres Centr es Training the trainer (2) In the Philippines, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been identified as a source of competitive advantage for the country and the government has been strongly promoting its development. However, the country faces an alarming youth issue: during the 1990s the out-of-school youth population tripled. The number of underprivileged youth aged 15 to 24 who are not employed nor in school is estimated at a startling 12 million (source: World Bank). In 2002, the National Youth Commission stated it is urgent for these youth to have access to basic services, specifically programs to help the out-of-school youth return to formal education or be engaged in non-formal vocational and livelihoodearning activities. The organisation on the frontline of delivering these programs is the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) of the Philippines Government. The 37 Project Background setting up a low-cost ICT centre that would offer affordable ICT training to local residents. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) together with EWB seek to bridge the divide by setting up Computer Livelihood Training centres that offer affordable ICT training to local residents. This innovative and high quality work has been recognized at the highest international level with the Scala Project being named a winner of the Global Knowledge Partnership Youth ICT4D Award for Education, presented at the UN organized World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Geneva in December 2003. The Philippines is an appropriate country for creating a program DSWD has a mandate to protect and involving modern communication promote the social rights and welfare technologies because of its location, of the poor. Engineers Without Borders language (English), high literacy rate (EWB) is working with the DSWD to and emerging IT sector. As such, help them modernize their youth computer literate graduates are social programs, in particular adding expected to have marketable skills and computer centres and integrated be employable within their commu- livelihood training areas to their nity. municipal offices. This program has A computer livelihood training been named SCALA (Sharing Com- program is an effective means to puter Access Locally and Abroad). address the root causes of the out-of- Before the program started, the school youth problems in the Philip- country saw ICT centres offering pines by providing new and higher computer literacy courses and Internet Discovering the computer access springing up in urban areas. This increase in training centres risked exacerbating the divide between the better-off and worse-off Filipino communities. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) together with EWB seek to bridge the divide by Low Cost IT Centres
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