Our Work

Nahdet Misr / Taaheel for Excellence skills development.

Project name: Compete Egypt

To prepare and develop a set of plans and training programs in the field of career guidance.

Contract Value: 200,000.00 EGP

Main objectives:

  • Conducting a comparative study of  vocational guidance and counselling systems and preparing it in Arabic in electronic and printed form (in addition to preparing  a summary in English).
  • Develop a plan for the implementation of the vocational guidance and counselling system in technical education and vocational training schools
  • Preparing a model to determine the needs of the labour market and implementing a set of discussion sessions between representatives of employers and vocational and technical education schools to discuss the competencies and qualifications required in the labour market . The form will be prepared in Arabic (and an abstract will be prepared in English)
  • Experimenting with a pilot model for the vocational guidance and counselling system in selected schools and evaluating the results

WFP / AL Korra Association for Sustainable Development 7 Governorates

Project name: Your profession, your ”Future”

To build the capacity of MOL staff to provide better Career guidance services to the Egyptian youth in 7 Governorates

Contract Value: 200,000.00 EGP

Main Objectives : 

  • Increase participants’ knowledge about the career guidance concept and the role of career guidance.
  • Enhancing the efficiency of participants in providing services related to the identification of different paths in career guidance.
  • Know the basic tasks and responsibilities of those in charge of career guidance services.
  • Providing participants with the ability and skills to design exercises for vocational guidance and counselling
  • Providing them with the necessary knowledge and skills to help job seekers with disabilities.
  • Providing them with the skill of searching for information on available job opportunities and developing research tools in vocational guidance and green professions.

ILO-Egypt

Project Name: “Youth for Future”

Execution Organizing Mini Job Fairs for Refugees in Cairo and Giza Governorates

Contract Value: 617,287.43 EGP 

Main Objectives:
Facilitate the access of young people with different educational qualifications (High School – University) or with technical/vocational skills/experience to suitable job opportunities and employers. This will be done through organizing 4 mini-employment fairs

  • Second Objective:
    Offer comprehensive job orientation to guide individuals in systematically searching for employment, identifying their career interests, skills, and goals.
  • Provide training on labour market regulations and effective interview techniques.

The main deliverables were:

  • Provide a work plan including the following: Different job/industry sectors for refugees.
  • Outreach to employers and companies. Logistical and financial arrangements. Outreach to job seekers and promotional strategy, including means of ensuring attendance of the targeted group
  • Organize four mini job fairs in greater Cairo and Giza

IECD

Project name and goal:

Soft skills training to build career resilience for future female technicians working in the technical field in secondary technical schools in Cairo and Alexandria.

Contract Value: 80,000.00 EGP 

Main objectives:

  • Provide soft skills training for female youths to acquire the needed skill set and facilitate their transition to the technical sector.
  • Topics might include, but are not limited to, prejudices and gender stereotypes, coping with adversity, communication styles, and socializing in the workplace.

Details of implementation are:

  • The target group is around 204 female students currently enrolled in two technical public secondary schools specializing in electrical maintenance in Cairo (ElectroMisr Applied Technology School) and Alexandria (El-Wardian School).
  • Student classification:
             – ElectroMisr: Second and Third Grade (total of 44 students)

              – El Wardian: Second and Third Grade (total of 160 students)

Gender and age group: between 16- and 17-year-old female students

  • Consultancy shall be carried out on 6 days (two days in Cairo and four days in Alex)
  • The target group is around 204 female students currently enrolled in two technical public secondary schools specializing in electrical maintenance in Cairo (ElectroMisr Applied Technology School) and Alex.

ILO-Egypt

Project Name: “Yoth For Future”

Providing Capacity Development on the Implementation of Job Fairs

Contract Value: 267,179.00 EGP 

The Main Objective:

To organize and provide capacity development training (4 days) to different stakeholders, such as the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) (30 participants), to enhance the skills of participants and support them with the essential knowledge about job fairs’ organization, starting with developing the training curriculum

The second objective was to develop and disseminate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for organizing job fairs.

The main objectives:

  • Provide a training curriculum about different relevant topics for job fairs
  • Organize one training session (30 participants) in Greater Cairo
  • Develop and disseminate SOPs on organizing job fairs

ILO-Egypt

Project name: “Youth For Future”

Capacity Building for Social Inclusion (Gender and Disability Friendly Conduct

Contract Value: 271,850.00 EGP

The main objective:
To build the capacity of local Youth Centres to become inclusive community centres that are capable of serving diverse groups of youth, including young women, youth with disabilities and young refugees and migrants with different nationalities

The aim of this capacity building was to offer the youths opportunities for development, empowerment and socio-economic inclusion.

This project was implemented in coordination with other stakeholders such as the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS)

In this project, CAT developed training  curricula adapted from the ILO’s literature and targeted at YC

And organize and deliver the training for 74 participants from MoYS in 4 governorates (Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Damietta, and Qalyubia).

In close collaboration with the ILO team, organized and delivered a strategic meeting with MoYS to present recommendations in light of the training sessions

The main deliverables were:

  • Carrying out a desk review with a focus on ILO’s literature and curricula that covers the topics of gender, disability and social inclusion.
  • Developing training curricula adapted from the ILO’s literature and targeted at YCs.
  • Provision of a work plan that covers outline and objectives of the training curriculum as well as the logistical and financial arrangements.
  • Delivering four training workshops for YCs in four governorates, and managing associated logistical arrangements and training materials distribution to support the training sessions.

ILO-Egypt

Project name: “Youth For Future”

Contract Value: 350,000.00 EGP

conducting a national review of career development systems aims to research

current career guidance frameworks and methodologies adopted nationwide, either through

government-sponsored, private sector or NGO-led programmes. It will work on identifying gaps and

recommending pathways for improvement. Furthermore, the consultant is required to shed light on the inclusion aspect within these programmes. The inclusion aspect entails the programme’s strategies in

place to include women, non-Egyptians (migrants and refugees), persons with disability, undergraduate

students, inactive graduates, and young workers in the formal and informal sectors. Results from

previous assessment exercises should be critically taken into account, updated and complemented.

ILO-Egypt

The project Name: “Youth For Future”

Capacity Building for Social Inclusion (Gender and Disability Friendly Conduct)

Contract Value: 326.318.40 EGP

The main objective:

Was to build the capacity of local YCs to become inclusive community centers that are capable of serving diverse groups of youth, including young women, youth with disabilities and young refugees and migrants with different nationalities, included the following tasks and deliverables:

  • Carrying out a desk review with a focus on ILO’s literature and curricula that covers the topics of gender, disability and social inclusion.
  • Developing training curricula adapted from the ILO’s literature and targeted at YCs.
  • Producing audio-visual and printed materials that supplement the training curricula.
  • Delivering four training workshops for YCs in four governorates and managing associated logistical arrangements.
  • CAT organized and delivered the training for 80 participants from MoYS in 4 governorates (Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Damietta, and Qalubia).

GIZ-Jordan

Project name: Skilled crafts project

Contract Value: 474,848,00 EGP (24,992.00 EUR)

The main objective:

  • It is to provide A training program and certification for 21 Career Services Providers
  • To provide the “facilitating career development training course and certification by NCDA.

GIZ-Uzbekistan

Project name: Support of the Reform and Modernization

Process in the Vocational Education System of Uzbekistan

Contract Value: 920.00 EUR

Main objective:
to present an online presentation on Career Guidance and the experience in Egypt, as well as any other country’s experience. To a round table of employers and public servants.