E-Learning and Enhanced Life Skills for

Youth Work Readiness

Global Youth Economic Opportunit ies Conference

September 2013

Diana Mukami – AMREF & Abigai l Musonda – Chi ldfund

Zambia

Background Information

The Zambia Nurse and Life Skills Training Program

through three lenses:

1. Contextual application

2. Partnerships

3. Enhanced Life Skills Training

Demonstration of a Psycho-social Support Activity

OVERVIEW

Project Goal: To leverage eLearning and enhanced

life skills training to rapidly scale up the quantity

and quality of Zambia youth trained, and

subsequently employed, as nurses and midwifes

Project Duration and Impact: Over 5 years, 6000

qualified high school graduates will be trained

BACKGROUND

CONTEXTUAL APPLICATION

THE LEARNING CAPABILITY

MATURITY MODEL (LCMM) 1. Organisational

Alignment

2. Learning Design

& Development

3. Learning

Delivery

4. Learning

Administration

5.1 Workforce

Performance

Measurement & Mgt Running a Learning

Programme

Provide learning solutions efficiently and effectively at scale

5.2 Continuous

Improvement

2.1 Curriculum Planning

2.4 Content & Asset

Cataloguing

4.1 Learner Scheduling

& Tracking

4.3 Learner Reporting

Infrastructure

4.2 Learner Profile Mgt

3.2 Instructor Planning &

Mgt

6. Operations 6.2 Vendor

/Supplier Mgt.

6.3 Technology

Infrastructure

1.3 Learning Plan Mgt

1.4 Demand Mgt

6.1 Financial &

Operations Mgt

4.4 Catalogue

Maintenance

2.2 Content Design &

Development

2.3 Content Maintenance

& Localization

1.2 Workforce Competency

& Requirements Mgt

3.1 Session & Facilities

Planning, Mgt &

Execution

6.5 Resource

Planning, Mgt& Dev

1.1 Learning Governance

6.4 Learner

Support

5. HR in Health

Impact

HOW DO WE USE LCMM?

Project Planning Project

Implementing

Project

Monitoring and

Evaluation

1. Development of draft

project workplan

2. Identification of

stakeholders

3. Country assessment

(as-is situation)

1. Implementation strategy

2. Implementation plan

3. Stakeholder alignment

4. Curriculum/Content

5. Infrastructure

6. Operationalization

7. Handover strategy

1. Learning

Management

System (LMS)

2. Helpdesk

3. M&E Framework

(to include

Kirkpatrick)

THE KIRKPATRICK EVALUATION MODEL

Improve: Learning Environment

Improve: Knowledge/Skill transfer

Check: Performance Environment

Check: Requirements, Systems and Processes

Level 1 – Reaction:

Was the environment suitable for

learning?

Level 2 – Knowledge:

Did they learn anything

Level 3 – Behavior:

KSA being used on the job?

Level 4 – Results:

Was it worth it?

Stakeholder identification and alignment critical

Focus on learning NOT technology

Conceptualize context specific challenges at the

outset

Working with the marginalized

Project sustainability

LESSONS LEARNED

PARTNERSHIPS

• Implementing partners involved early on

• Align project with government plans / policy

• Stakeholders define challenges

• Roles and responsibilities of key implementing

partners clear

• Understanding of expectation and project scoping

by all

• Understand and address the challenges / needs /

fears of the various implementing partners

• Clear governance structure

SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP

ENHANCED LIFE SKILLS

HOW LIFE SKILLS IS EMBEDDED IN THE

IN THE PROJECT

Insert picture of the curriculum or a couple of pictures of life skills

activities

Improved retention of learners in the program

Improved delivery of services to clients

Increased support to learners, especially

vulnerable rural youth

Improved performance of learners and graduate

nurses

Increased trainee employability

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Enhanced life skills can lead to many positive outcomes in health, employment, and participation

Psycho-social support should be integrated into all employment programs

Need for more programs with a strong evaluation component looking at life skills

Increases confidence and ability of vulnerable rural youth to demand for economic, social and health services.

Need to use practical tools in addressing real life situations of rural youth, avoid too much theory

LESSONS LEARNED

Thank You!