Improving Skills for Holistic Employment in Modern Agriculture - ISHEMA
Improving Skills for Holistic Employment in Modern Agriculture - ISHEMA
Project design applying systemic approach. Agricuture Market system analysis in selected regions was performed, along with a gender and skills system analysis. The process involved stakeholders consultations.
PROJECT TYPE
Advisory
Research
DURATION
4/1/2024 - 9/30/2024
CLIENT
Lux Dev
SECTOR
Skills in Agricuture
LOCATION
Rwanda
RESULTS/IMPACT
The ISHEMA project was designed following a Market Systems Development (MSD) approach. During the diagnostic phase, several interconnected systems analyses were conducted:
i) Labor Market Analysis in the target geographies to uncover the root causes of youth unemployment and identify employment/self employment opportunities.
ii) Agriculture Sector Analysis focusing on growing value chains with potential for innovation and job creation.
iii) Skills Development System Diagnosis, examining the underlying factors affecting the quality of agricultural training and identifying opportunities for innovation, sustainability, and community engagement. This also included assessing the potential to scale up a state-of-the-art model at the national level.
iv) Crosscutting Gender Analysis to reveal specific constraints faced by women in the labor market, explore their employment and self-employment opportunities, and evaluate gender inclusiveness in TVET systems.
Evidence gathered through these analyses was instrumental in co-designing the project with local stakeholders and aligning it with exisiting initaives and national strategies. The project is currently being successfully implemented.
OUR ROLE
Swisscontact engaged five experts for this assignment: two internal and one national expert in skills development, one international expert in agriculture, and one local gender expert. Their role was to design and conduct the diagnostic phase, and subsequently contribute to the development of the project vision and theory of change, as well as the implementation approach and work plan, including governance, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) frameworks.
Swisscontact experts also developed and applied prioritization tools, and facilitated several co-design workshops to ensure a participatory and inclusive process.
TEAM
Sidita Dibra (Senior VET expert)
Roman Troxler (Senior VET expert & Rwanda Country Director)
