Vocational Skills in collaboration with 12 Local Governments

Unemployed local youths of 12 municipalities of Koshi, Madhesh and Bagmati province were trained with short term (390 hour) vocational skills based on local demand in VST 2023 under cost-sharing partnership (up to 10 percent) with these local governments. The partnership created a base and turned out to be effective in institutionalizing result-based financing system at the local level. Throughout the partnership, the focal person assigned for the training were actively engaged in the pre, during and post training monitoring process along with the use of digital means developed by the project. The mayor, deputy-mayor and ward chairpersons were also involved throughout the monitoring process. The partnership has also led on the development of Local Government Vocational Skills Implementation Guideline on the local levels whereas it has also created evidence-based ground for policy/strategic plan at other local levels too.