2nd media report- initiative to develop labor market in sinai

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Initiative to develop labor market in Sinai

2nd Media Report

This report was prepared to cover the activities of the " Initiative

to Create an Enabling Environment for Workforce Development

in the Sinai Community" in May 2011 , organized by the

Technology Center for Human Rights (TCHR), a founding

member of the Young Organizations Network (YON) and inpartnership with the Roaa Gadida (New Visions) Association for

Development in North Sinai - member of the Network- and In

collaboration with the Rawabet (Links) Association - member

of the Network- with a financial fund from the Middle East

Partnership Initiative "MEPI."

Problems of Education are the

focus of the second action

week in Sinai

Cooperation Protocol between

the Ministry of Education and

the associations organizing the

action week for training and

qualifying teachers.

Train 40 young persons on the

management of small and

micro -enterprises and on

marketing in addition to how

to increase productivity

Sinai businessman offers 70grants for the education of

youth in the universities to

obtain higher qualifications.


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The project activities:Firstly: To strengthen the capacity and training of young people Sinai:Training of Sinai youth is one of the main axes in the project; as it isscheduled to train young people on how to manage small and microprojects and how to finance those projects this addition to train youngpeople on how to increase productivity for projects that already existand how to manage the marketing operations successfully.

A number of professional trainers in the field of management, humandevelopment and marketing will undertake the training programs.The training is targeting Sinai youth, in each of North Sinai and SouthSinai governorates.

Researches and studies:One of the important activities in the initiative is preparation of anumber of researches and field studies of the labor market in Sinai,which will include a full vision of available employmentopportunities and Problems of employment, in addition to preparing aguide for companies and private institutions in the Sinai. In addition topreparing a study on integration of Sinai women in the labor marketand how to take advantage of innovative work systems such asflexible time, co-sharing, part-time work and teleworking to increasethe contribution of women in economic activity with reconciling withfamily duties.

Development of an electronic information network on Sinai labormarket :The Technology Center for Human Rights seeks, through this initiative,to develop a technological structure that contributes to thedevelopment of the labor market in Sinai and addresses someshortcomings in the structure of the workforce through preparing anOnline Recruitment Forum targeting young people in Sinai, this forumwill include an innovative application through which a direct linkcould be created - according to clear criteria - between Sinai youngjob-seekers and companies and institutions operating in Sinai, whichwill be completed through the preparation of a Mobile RecruitmentForum in Sinai cities to hold a direct link between the youth and the

labor market.


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The 2nd Action WeekFirstly: The Training Week

The first training program "managing small and micro enterprises"The Technology Centre organized, within the activities of the actionweek, a week of training that included organizing a trainingprogram on the "Management of Small and Micro Enterprises", whichlasted for 3 consecutive days, started on October 1st and ended onOctober 3rd 2011. It should be noted that more than 19 young traineesfrom El Sheikh Zwed City, Sinai, benefited from this training. It should be noted that the training program included a number ofissues, like for example: the concept of small and micro enterprises,strategies for promotion of small businesses, practical steps to beginimplementation of small projects, and how to prepare feasibility

studies and technical projects, small and micro enterprises, in additionto how identify funding sources and sources of credit.

The second training program "Marketing and Increasing Productivity"Furthermore, The Center has also organized a training program underthe title of Marketing and Increasing Productivity, which lasted for 3consecutive days, started on October 4th and ended on October 6th2011, were more than 21 young trainees, from El Sheikh Zwed City,Sinai, benefited from this training.This training included many issues of particular importance for theyoung initiators, like for example: training on the nature of marketingand its importance and the importance of planning for the process ofmarketing, how to make the right decisions, the main stages ofdecision-making, problem-solving, the proper methods for submissionof proposals and plans and ideas, in addition to ways to developmarketing strategies and how to prepare marketing plans, and thedefinition of the art of selling and valuation "pricing", personal skillsnecessary for the administration department in personal time and risk

management.


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Secondly: Mobile Recruitment Forum:

The Mobile Recruitment Forum is an innovative offer to create a link

between the labor market represented in companies and institutionsoperating in the Sinai and young people in Sinai, worth mentioning

that during the action week, the center held a recruitment forum

that included many related activities and continued for four

consecutive days from October 3rd to October 6th 2011, including:

The operating companies were identified through a number of public

and private companies representatives in cooperation with the

Chamber of Commerce in North of Sinai, in a meeting between the

young trainees and those representatives.

A seminar was held on the unemployment in Sinai and the role of

private companies in reducing the unemployment rate in the Sinai.

Many young people were registered in the Online Recruitment Forum

in addition to a number of companies.


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Thirdly: the Conferenceon

"Problems of Education in Sinai"(The Sinai Tent)

8 9 October 2011

More than 60 participants attended the conference on the Problemsof education in the Sinai in addition to senior representatives ofdepartments of education in Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah cities.Furthermore, dozens of interested persons in education in northernSinai participated in this confernce, which was held on Sunday inSheikh Zuwaid at Rawabet Association. The participants discussedchronic and emergency problems in the sectors of education in Sinai,with a vision for the advancement of education.

Mr. Nasser Abu Aker, president of Rawabet Association for

Development, has presented to the attendees the files of theconference and honored the trainees who passed the training courseson developing the labor market.

He affirmed the importance of providing teachers to work in Rafahand Sheikh Zuwaid, rejecting reliance on the tone of what is calledsecurity chaos, adding that the region is stable.

Abdullah Qandeel, the President of the Chamber of Commerce innorthern Sinai, said that the Ministry of Education is the first sovereignof the importance of education in the construction of anyrenaissance. Qandeel suggested the establishment of a committee for

education in the Chamber of Commerce to coordinate the generationof employment for graduates in particular.


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Mr. Salma Abu Sheikha, Management Agent in Sheikh Zuwaideducational department, presented the constraints of the educationalprocess, including the shortages of teachers in schools of SheikhZuwaid and Rafah, and he added that 173 contracted teachers wereappointed to cover the deficit which is not enough after thewithdrawal of female teachers living in Arish, from the schools ofthe two cities after the revolution.

The political activist, Mosaad Abu Fagr, called on the establishment ofa center for the development of education in Sinai, in line with therequirements of the region and its circumstances, and he called onincreasing attention to education in Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafahbecause of its importance to Egypt and Sinai. Abu Fagr said that helearned that the grant of the European Union for students of CentralSinai which reached up to 3 thousand euros for each student, was

missed and did not reach the students in the former regime.

While Mr. Mustafa Singer, member of the Independent TeachersAssociation, discussed the problematic of education in Egypt ingeneral and in Sinai, because of the educational policy in Egypt,which did not put the system of education as a priority in publicspending and wasted teachers rights and the rights of the universitygraduates, and he compared between spending on education indeveloped countries and in Egypt.

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