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STAR Skill Training for Advancing Resources
Presented By JOYDEEP SINHA ROY BRAC EDUCATION PROGRAMME APRIL, 2013
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At a Glance| STAR • Started in 2012 from BRAC Education Programme
• Technical & vocational training
• Informal apprenticeship based model
• 1000 adolescents Covered in 2012
• Partners: GoB, UNICEF, BRAC & ILO
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Objectives| STAR
• Equipped adolescents with technical skills
• Ensure employment through wage/self employment
• Address unemployment/underemployment issue of
Bangladesh
• Create safer & decent workplaces for Learners
• To create a paththway from School to Work
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Unemployment Issue
Demand for Labors Skills
Demand Supply
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Target group| STAR
• Age group: 14-18
• Dropped out of secondary schools
• Mostly grade 5 passed
• Financially vulnerable
• Unemployed / working adolescents with minimal tech
skills
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• On the job training • Theoretical Training • Soft skill Training • Placement
Creating Skilled
workforce
• Workplace Improvement • Technical Up gradation • Occupational Safety & Health
Decent Employment
Two folded approach| STAR
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Trades & Areas| STAR Trades
• Tailoring & dress making
• Mobile phone servicing
• Motor cycle repairing
• Block batik and screen print
• Embroidery
• Beauty parlor
• Refrigeration & AC servicing
• Basic Electronics
• Electrical and House wiring
AREAS COVERED
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Components| STAR
On the job training Theoretical
Technical training
Soft skills training Placement support
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On the job training| STAR
• Learners are placed to different shops/ workplaces for 6
months
• From each shop one Technical person is assigned to train
learners, known as MCP
• MCPs follow Competency based log books (CSLB) /
training manual for particular trades to train the
learners
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On the job training| STAR
MCP is providing On the job
Practical training to one of the
learners in Tailoring and dress
making trade
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On the job training| STAR
• MCPs are trained on Occupational Safety and health (OSH)
• MCPs are also trained on workplace improvement
• It helps to make the workshops a decent place for training
KHADIJA , learner of Motor Cycle repairing trade receiving training from their MCP
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Theoretical training| STAR
• 2 hour theoretical training conducted every week
• Developing learners’ theoretical knowledge is the
main reason of this training
• Helps learners to know the rationale behind the
technical aspects
< 12
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Soft Skills training| STAR
Communicative English
Life skills
Training
Financial literacy Training
Seeking and
Keeping job Job
< 13
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Communicative English| STAR
• Conducted by Scholarship recipients from BRAC
Education programme
• Aim to prepare learners to be able to communicate in
English
• Boosts up the confidence level of the learners
< 14
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LifeSkills Training| STAR • 2 hour Life skills training is conducted each week • Objectives:
– Educate the learners about their rights – Creating awareness regarding burning issues
• Child marriage, child abuse, drugs addiction, dowry • Eve teasing, rape, HIV AIDS , health puberty,
menstruation
– Educate learners with the social norms and values
• APON books have been used for this training
< 15
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Financial literacy Training| STAR
• Savings • Prioritizing consumptions • Bank Accounts • Budget and Overall money management
< 16
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Seeking & keeping job| STAR
• Prepared by Making Cents Inc.
• Helps to develop the behavioral aspect of the learners
• Focuses on the DOs and DONTs of an employee
• Qualities of good employees and employers
• Develops the learners as an employee fit for the
labour market
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Placements| STAR
• After successfully completion of the training, each learner
is placed to the different workplaces as employees
• Linkage with Secondary schools
Bilkis, started her own Beauty parlor after graduating from STAR & earns around 100 USD/ month
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Achievements| STAR
• In 2012, 992 learners graduated ( 584 female: 408 Male)
• 968 learners : wage employees; 24 learners: Self employees
• 17 were physically challenged (presently working)
• Wage range: USD: 25- USD: 130 per month
• Entrepreneurs earn at least USD 7 per day
• 55 learners started going to school for further studies (working
part time)
• 1000 learners have access to formal banks to save their earnings.
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Future Steps| STAR
• Another 1000 learners will be covered in 2013
• By 2016, around 8000 learners will be reached
• New areas will be covered
• New local demanded trades will be incorporated
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THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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