Hands-on apprenticeships for adolescents and young people who have dropped out of school

 
The apprenticeship-based technical and soft skills training is specifically designed for adolescents who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out from formal schooling. It is a six-months apprenticeship programme with job placements in the informal economy for people aged 14-18. Learners are paired up, and placed under the guidance of master craftspersons who already run their own businesses and have been trained on competency-based training techniques. Besides technical and soft skills training, learners are also equipped with basic literacy, numeracy, media skills and digital literacy.

Currently, this training is operating in 130 sub-districts in Bangladesh across 17 different trades. BRAC’s latest randomised controlled trial on skills training reveals that on-the-job training increases labour market participation of learners by 22.6%, time devoted to earning activities by 59%, and earnings by 44%. The training also contributed to 62% reduction in child marriage among women learners and supported them to increase their incomes six-fold.
 

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