1 identifying skills for the informal economy richard curtain 27 sept 2011
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What skills?
• Income generating skills• Skills to improve food security• Needed in both urban and rural
areas• Need to be specific to each setting
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Skills for food security
• Fresh water security• Traditional methods of acquiring food eg coastal fishing under threat• Need suitable techniques and practices to manage available resources
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Identifying skills to make money
• Need to be careful skills training not driven by available skills of trainers
• Pre-training market analysis needed to identify type of work that will create income
• Feedback loop needed: for example, are there too many carpenters being trained?
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Identifying skills
• Make use of key informants • Identified by their communities as
knowledgeable• Willing and able to talk about skills• Use a number of key informants to
cross check the information• Validate with members of the
community
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Good Example
Lisa King, Outreach and Community Program Specialist ADB Loan No. 1791 RMI Skills Training and Vocational Education Project
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Purpose of study
It is a catalogue of simple, relatively low cost, skills-based trainings that integrate income generating opportunities with identified life skills education whenever possible.
The trainings identified are generally intended to make a difference in a relatively short period of time.
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Target groups
• School dropouts aged 14-24 years
• Student boarders at outer atoll high schools
• Low Income Women (over age 24 yrs)