Skill Development Program
Skills development is the procedure of determining your skill gaps or ensuring that you fill them. Your knowledge assess the capacity to transfer out program and reaching to your goals. Employees are more motivated and engaged, and productivity is higher in organizations that support skill development. Even in today's modern age, it is essential to acquire knowledge as well as skills. Skilled people can never be unemployed, and there is respect and demand everywhere. Skills should be developed in any field.
Problems faced by Pakistan due to unskilled Youth
The research found that Pakistani youth face issues such as
- Increased discomfort
- A limited social circle
- Inferiority complex
- Restriction to personal progress
- Low self-esteem
- Increased worry
- Sadness
- Mental health issues
Main Reason for unemployment:
Our society is facing a lot of unemployment. The main reason for this is the lack of skilled people. Because our community is less inclined towards skills or does not have access to skills, unemployment is rising day by day, no less than a fistula.
What is the solution to unemployment in Pakistan:
The first step in reducing unemployment in Pakistan is for Pakistan's educational system should be equitable and well-managed. Where skills programs are offered, well-known training and technical institutes must be established. To solve this kind of issue, organizations start a skill development program to learn a skill and earn money. in this way, they solve all these problems caused by unemployment.
Skill Development in Pakistan
Technical and vocational education is becoming increasingly important in Pakistan. If you work in a manual or technological field, you will require some technical and vocational training. It was discovered and observed that technical and vocational education was exclusively provided to low-level workers in Pakistan in the past. The instruction covered how to perform manual activities as well as how to operate various types of machines. However, the scenarios have now been drastically altered! Information technology, Programmer logic controller, fashion design, dressmaking, beautician, tourism, and other skill development training programs in Pakistan have lately begun to place a high value on technical and vocational education programs. Today, every sector in Pakistan refuses to hire a single employee unless they have acquired a particular ability level.
We discovered that the need for technical and vocational education in Pakistan is steadily increasing. Every Pakistani believes that including this kind of educational program will help to reduce the country's poverty rate. If we want Pakistan's economy and development to be at the top of the world, we must improve our technical and vocational education sector. As we all know, Pakistan has a higher rate of unemployment than the rest of the world. The fundamental cause for this deficiency is that Pakistanis are not sufficiently skilled, and they consistently fail to meet the standards of any job line. If one wants to find a job right away, or if one wants to meet the standards of any job line, technical and vocational education is required.
In Pakistan, there is an urgent and pressing demand for a well-trained workforce. This feature will provide several job chances for Pakistani students, as well as a reduction in drug addiction, warlord activities, trafficking, and gang participation activities. Youth morale and confidence can only be sufficiently enhanced if they can find work.
The youth of Pakistan is falling behind due to a lack of skill, experience, and education. There is no way they can go back if they are given proper technical and vocational training.
Skill development with an eye toward employment is a pressing need, and Human Relief Foundation Pakistan has begun a skill development initiative in the KPK's Mansehra district. There is a rising recognition that having a college diploma does not always guarantee a job that matches one's qualifications. A Class X minimum qualification combined with some vocational abilities, on the other hand, leads to work chances.
The goal is to teach poor girls and women how to sew garments and run home beauty parlors from their homes (self-employment) or find work at a boutique/professional beauticians/export house to augment their family's income and improve their quality of life. Following the training, HRF Pakistan assists the beneficiaries in opening their tailoring shops/beauty parlors, either individually or collectively. Trainees are also taken on exposure tours and encouraged to learn about the marketing components of a tailoring unit, sampling and quality control, self-help groups (SHGs) as tailoring/beautician unit co-operatives, and SHG administration. They are also encouraged to create a business with the help of a government loan that is interest-free (SHG).
Skills offered by HRF
These are the variety of skills that's HRF is offering at this moment. Recently started for women trades like
- Dressmaking/ Embroidery
- Beautician
- Computer Courses
And coming semester for men or boys started some new trades like
- PLC
- Tourism
- Advance Electrical
- Advance Civil Survey
Benefits Of HRF skill development program
Both men and women can benefit from our program because those who could not get any training due to economic hardship will now be able to get it. Because our program is very affordable and for some, it is free. And secondly, it is for them to the doorstep and easy access for other people.
We will fully support people, whether male or female, who have completed their training and are interested in starting their own business.
It can be an interest-free loan; it can be tools and machinery and other financial assistance.
How HRF helps unemployed people to establish their Businesses
The Human Relief Foundation has established the Institute of Skill Development in the periphery of Mansehra. HRF – ISD Mansehra organizes and conducts a meeting with an International Labour Organization (ILO) representative to ensure the institute's long-term viability. Similarly, the departments of social welfare, usher and zakat, and municipal government. To cater to the vocational training needs of the orphan, widow, and local poor people to facilitate the orphan and local poor people to find the right kind of job.
All of the youth, both gender of the vicinity part of this training institute.
Freely chosen criteria for widows include:
Widow certificate, maximum age 20 to 45 years old.
For orphans, the requirements are:
Age range: 15 to 25 years old, with a death certificate for the father.
Criteria for poor and needy students are as follows:
Age 15 to 25 years old with a Zakat Department certificate or a local Nazim proof of poverty
For disabled trainees, the criteria are:
There is no age limit, but they must operate a computer or a sewing machine.
The institute will work with a variety of government, semi-government, and non-government entities.
Fee schedule
Three packages for vocational training programs were offered by HRF- ISD Mansehra.
- A free vocational training program for orphans, widows, impoverished and needy people, including registration and certification.
- For some poor and needy students, a 50% discount is available.
- For a low-cost student, the monthly fee is only $1,000, including their examination and certification.
Affiliation
ISD Mansehra is associated with the Peshawar Skill Development Council (under NTB Islamabad) and the Pakistan Technical Education Council (under NTB Islamabad). NAVTTC accreditation is also in the works.
How HRF works
HRF Pakistan will continue the program by collecting fees from students in the second year of the program. This initial cash will be used to develop the necessary equipment and infrastructure. This institute will only demand the wages of the teachers/instructors and a small fee for power, etc., after one year of the program. We anticipate that the locals will pay the charge, allowing us to continue operating the institute in the long run. Initial core skills training, a company management module, project work, and market linkages are all part of the training curriculum. The primary goal of the "Skills for Market Connection" program is to give demand-driven training to women working in the garment industry and beauty salons to develop structured market linkage possibilities that will allow them to participate in economic activities.
The "Skills for Market Linkage" project aims to achieve the following outcomes:
- For the selected trades, I created some (I.Gs) interest groups. e.g., a dressmaker or a beautician.
- Businesses are established at the village, muhalla, or town level to ensure market access.
- The provision of toolkits to enable long-term corporate success.
- Launch a new activity or program and the existing ones to help the institution perform better
- Arranging master trainer/instructor/instructress training in local industries
- Initiatives for imparting and improving skill development and vocational training through the IMC-Industry Partnership.
We want to do more, but we can't because of a lack of funds. We desperately require additional funds. Any owner authority person who wishes to support or entrust any new trades or institutes in any district or region should contact our Islamabad headquarters. Anyone who wants to help and support our causes by contributing is strongly encouraged to do so. You can do so by donating online, over the phone, or through the mail. Anyone who wishes to volunteer or has a specific skill set that could assist us in achieving our goals is also welcome.
