GWIT Capabilities
GWIT Linkage Organizations
The GWIT team will also collaborate with various institutions around the world to serve as linkage partner organizations. They will provide the GWIT project with access to consultant expertise, information and material resources, and help mentor and strengthen the capacity of organizations in participating countries.
International Foundation for Social Adaptation
Junior Achievement International
Hifab International
National Observatory of Kyrgyzstan
Universal Foundation for Training and Information
University of the Western Cape
International Foundation for Social Adaptation
(IFSA)
http://www.ifsa.kiev.ua*
IFSA is an NGO dedicated to promoting socio-economic adaptation of
Ukraine’s population while in transition to a market economy.
IFSA focuses on job creation through the promotion of small business
and targets disadvantaged groups. Its key clients are former soldier
and sailors. In addition to training, its activities include credit
programs, equipment grants and small business incubation.
According to the USAID evaluation in 1996, the Retraining of the Military
Program, which helped to organize retraining and provide employment
for 80, 000 retired officers and family members, was included in the
world’s top 20 programs of use of manpower resources. This program
has also been replicated in other former communist countries such
as Bulgaria, Moldova and Russia.
* This site is available in local language only.
Junior Achievement International (JAI)
http://www.jaintl.org
Junior Achievement International is the world's oldest, largest and
fastest growing non-profit business and economic education organization.
It offers high quality business and economic education courses for
children and young adults, through local organizations within the
US and in 115 counties internationally. It offers courses in 36 languages.
JAI has prepared business plans or feasibility studies for the establishment of in-country JA organizations in dozens of countries, often in response to a scope of work (SOW) from a USAID mission. JAI has also conceptualized JA projects that were funded by donors such as the European Union, Soros Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, American Express Foundation and ExxonMobil Foundation. JAI’s goal is to make sure that all in-country JA organizations are self sustaining once start-up funds are no longer available, JAI does this by actively involving local business leaders who become the owners and funders for JA.
In many of the developing countries, tourism is an important foreign exchange earner and source of new jobs. To better prepare young people to participate in the rapidly growing tourist sector, JAI has developed a new course in Travel and Tourism (TTBiz) which is delivered via the internet in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Other new courses are "Financial Literacy (MMBiz)" and "Business and Ethics." JAI has also sent consultants to Africa to design an approach to use the JA delivery system to educate young people about the economic costs of HIV/AIDS. In a few countries in Africa, young people who have lost their parents to AIDS are being taught how to earn a living using the JA Company program in which young people actually set up a business under the guidance of a business advisor.
Hifab International
http://www.hifab.se/
Hifab International is the leading project management company in Sweden.
The international development arm of Hifab has effectively and efficiently
managed a large number of projects in Asia, Africa, Latin America
and
Europe. It has a close relationship with most of the major international
funding institutions including the World Bank, the regional development
banks, UN organisations, European Union lending institutions and donors,
as
well as a number of bilateral organisations.
Hifab is currently managing projects in the fields of infrastructure,
rural
development, environmental engineering, geotechnology, procurement,
institution development, education, social development and health
care.
Common for all international projects is that they include components
of
institutional capacity building and training, and are gender and
environmentally mainstreamed. They also offer technical assistance
and
training in almost any area of initial and further vocational training,
as
well as in other labor market related questions. Hifab has broad experience
in European and CIS countries and offers services in a number of languages
such as French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech and Croatian. Areas
of core
competencies include making formal and informal education systems
more
relevant to economic needs and addressing youth unemployment.
National Observatory of Kyrgyzstan
http://www.etf.eu.int/ETFweb.nsf/pages/no.kyr.index/
This organization, funded by the EU, is a leading agent in the transformation
of Kyrgyzstan from a Soviet-style pre-industrial country to a modern
state. In addition to developing workforce development analyses and
training programs, the National Observatory acts to promote regional,
gender and ethnic equity in employment. It also identifies priorities
and advises on policies for the further development of vocational
training by:
- Collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labor market reform in Kyrgyzstan;
- Disseminating information and good practice on vocational education, training and labor market systems from European Union Member States and other partner countries, and
- Developing cooperation with international networks and organizations from EU Member States.
Universal Foundation for Training and Information (UNITI)
http://www.fulbright-india.org/eas/satellite.htm
UNITI is a regional dissemination centre for information on vocational-technical
education for India and its neighboring countries in South Asia. It
also provides vocational training in rural areas. UNITI serves as
a satellite centre to provide resources on US higher education for
the bi-national organization USEFI (U.S. Educational Foundation in
India, also known as the Fulbright Commission). USEFI was created
by a treaty on educational exchange between the Governments of India
and the USA in 1950.
University of the Western Cape
http://www.uwc.ac.za/academic/default.htm
The University’s Center for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE)
was established in 1985. Prompted by South Africa’s implementation
of the Skills Development Act of 1998, CACE has developed a major
focus on skills development, skills development facilitation, and
workplace learning. In particular, CACE in partnership with the ISETT
SETA (South Africa's Information Systems, Electronics and Telecommunications
Technologies Education and Training Authority) has developed a qualification,
“Higher Diploma in Education, Training and Development: Workplace
Learning”. This qualification, premised on the relevant unit
standards, attracts skills development facilitators, human resource
development practitioners, training practitioners, work-based adult
learning specialists, and workplace learning facilitators. Key competencies
in the course include implementing learnerships, developing and assessing
workplace learning programmes and working within a quality assurance
framework.
