SECTION A: PROJECT SUMMARY In South Africa latest statistics indicate that 70% of the unemployed are youth. Over the years government has initiated various policies and programmes to address the problem. The W2P programme aims to either transit youth who are on welfare into permanent lucrative employment or provide further education opportunities. The project involves taking welfare recipients to the work environment provided by host NGOs. This project includes the recruitment and selection, assessment, placement and on-job development, case management, training and developmental education, support services and job retention services. It will help participants to be ready for the world of work and provide them with work experience in order to help them to get and to keep a job. The project includesbeneficiary transformation concern and it has explicit measurable impact. The project will span over 3 years. The project budget includes two critical phases, phases II and IV. The project Phase II budget covers a cost estimate of R179 760. There will be a camp for 150 participants, which means that it will cost the sum of R239.68 /person/day excluding logistics. Thus the project starts with a boot-camp by the third week of October 2013.Phase IVstarts during year 1 and continues during the 2nd and 3rd year of the project. During the first year of placement and training, it will cost the sum of R881.08/person/month for a period of 6 months. Thereafter it is reduced to R647.22 per person per month for the subsequent period of 12months.Towards the end of the first full financial year, subsequent budgets will be submitted by February for approval. SECTION B CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK INTRODUCTION After studying the various intervention applied elsewhere in the world, there is a need for a model that takes into account the heterogeneous characteristics of youth because of differences in their background, their socio-economic differences and variation in their level of education and natural abilities. For example, some youth have incomplete matric results while some of the youth with matric are unemployedor cannot access higher education opportunities. Another category of unemployed youth has dropped out from tertiary institutions because of their inability to cope with the demands of higher education. Some graduatesare unemployed. These different categories suggest different needs, which requiredifferent interventions in order to address the problem of unemployment.
SECTION A: PROJECT SUMMARY In South Africa latest statistics indicate that 70% of the unemployed are youth. Over the years government has initiated various policies and programmes to address the problem. The W2P programme aims to either transit youth who are on welfare into permanent lucrative employment or provide further education opportunities. The project involves taking welfare recipients to the work environment provided by host NGOs. This project includes the recruitment and selection, assessment, placement and on-job development, case management, training and developmental education, support services and job retention services. It will help participants to be ready for the world of work and provide them with work experience in order to help them to get and to keep a job. The project includesbeneficiary transformation concern and it has explicit measurable impact. The project will span over 3 years. The project budget includes two critical phases, phases II and IV. The project Phase II budget covers a cost estimate of R179 760. There will be a for 150 participants, which means that it will cost the sum of R239.68 /person/day excluding logistics. Thus the project starts with a boot-camp by the third week of October 2013.Phase IVstarts during year 1 and continues during the 2nd and 3rd year of the project. During the first year of placement and training, it will cost the sum of R881.08/person/month for a period of 6 months. Thereafter it is reduced to R647.22 per person per month for the subsequent period of 12months.Towards the end of the first full financial year, subsequent budgets will be submitted by February for approval. SECTION B CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK INTRODUCTION After studying the various intervention applied elsewhere in the world, there is a need for a model that takes into account the heterogeneous characteristics of youth because of differences in their background, their socio-economic differences and variation in their level of education and natural abilities. For example, some youth have incomplete matric results while some of the youth with matric are unemployedor cannot access higher education opportunities. Another category of unemployed youth has dropped out from tertiary institutions because of their inability to cope with the demands of higher education. Some graduatesare unemployed. These different categories suggest different needs, which requiredifferent interventions in order to address the problem of unemployment. camp
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