Programmatic Components Sample Clauses

Programmatic Components. Through the first two years of implementation, the YED team has identified a number of key lessons learned that have influenced the program’s implementation strategy. These include the following:  Effective and quality stakeholder engagement in general, and private sector engagement in particular, is a labor intensive process that requires patience and persistence without always providing direct and visible results, although it does prove to validate and build local ownership of projects.  Capacity strengthening for partner ▇▇▇▇ is more effective when workshops are supplemented with tailored coaching and opportunities for YSI partners to apply the concepts taught in the group training sessions.  Sustainable gains in strengthening partners’ capacities are hampered by high turnover rates within the YSIs. IYF will work to try to engage governing boards and senior staff to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ support for CSP participation and will encourage trainees to share the CSP materials and resources with other staff within their organization to support sustainable development.  YSIs need materials and curricula to provide quality training for youth in employability, entrepreneurship, service learning, and life skills.  Service learning as a tool to build youth employability and entrepreneurship skills is not a well-developed concept in Palestine and requires significant investment to pilot projects and identify best practices and lessons learned to develop it.  Experiential learning opportunities such as internships, youth-led community service initiatives, and new business incubation require extensive development and support from strategic partnerships to ensure participants achieve the maximum benefit.  Ongoing economic challenges on a national level increase unemployment in general and among youth in particular, reduce the number of job and internship opportunities available to YED beneficiaries, as well as the ability of private sector companies to provide leverage contributions to YSI partners’ projects. At the end of Year Two, ▇▇▇ organized a meeting with 17 individuals representing NGOs, universities, private sector companies, USAID implementing partners, and USAID representatives. At this meeting, ▇▇▇ shared an initial implementation plan for FY 2013 and gathered feedback from the various stakeholders, to refine the work plan and to explore other areas of intervention that YED might consider in the future. Their feedback included the following observations and recomme...