Skills Development Programme

The project

SDP is structured into four intervention areas by

• focusing on the quality improvement of Provincial Training Centers (PTCs) through a holistic and collaborative school development process;
• fostering innovative approaches for skills development and developing solutions for underlying problems of the skills gaps and mismatches in the labour market;
• providing labour market-relevant technical, soft and entrepreneurship skills training for poor and disadvantaged youth and linking beneficiaries to gainful (self) employment;
• and industry-based hospitality training for low-skilled workers and capacity building for hospitality business owners and managers as well as trainers from Provincial Department of Tourism and the private sector.

Cross-cutting themes such as Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), Conflict-Sensitive Project Management (CSPM), Environmental Protection, and Good Governance are mainstreamed into all interventions.

INTERVENTION AREA 1: TVET School Development
SDP plays a role as a facilitator to support TVET school development processes by offering technical assistance and (co-) financing of equipment and tools. Continuous policy dialogue with the governing bodies (MoLVT and NEA) is fostered to feed the lessons learned, feedback on challenges, and successes into the national system.

INTERVENTION AREA 2: TVET Innovation Lab
The TVET Innovation Lab offers a platform to analyse the labour market needs and constraints, create innovative solutions to enhance training and employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed youth, pilot innovations, disseminate learning and institutionalise successful approaches of TVET.

INTERVENTION AREA 3: Training for Disadvantaged Youth
SDP collaborates with public and private training service providers to offer high-quality training and certification to disadvantaged youth to link them to gainful employment. The training and employment process is explained below:

• Pre-training: Training offered to disadvantaged youth will be based on actual market demand.
• All graduates are awarded a certificate at the end of the technical, soft skills and entrepreneurship training, enabling them to prove their qualifications, find (self-)employment, and potentially continue their studies.
• Post-training: Training providers establish relations with the private sector and are informed about vacancies and options for traineeships. Graduates are linked with traineeship and employment opportunities.

INTERVENTION AREA 4: Hospitality Kampuchea (HoKa)
HoKa is based on a demand-led and industry-based training model. Low-skilled workers of the hospitality sector are eligible to participate in a hands-on training which offers then the theoretical background, practical and professional upskilling opportunities and a nationally recognized certification.
Owners and managers and the supervisory staff of hotels, guesthouses, resorts, restaurants, and cafes in the need of upgrading their in-house training processes provide input to the contents of the f curricula and participate in the upskilling courses offered by SDP. The (modular) courses cover technical skills, training didactics and methodology, and hospitality management.