Community Support Program - Grantee Progress Report 3

The project provides scholarship, training, and internship opportunities to job seekers, while enhancing the curricula, educational training, and job placement infrastructure and services of private technical and vocational education and training (TVET) partners. The project's objective is to provide technical assistance to support the CSP in designing and implementing Home Based Healthcare Services activities in curriculum development and integration, teacher assessment and training, TVET technical and administrative capacity assessment, and enabling environment issues around training and employment. This project will be developed in the four nursing schools of the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC). Between October 31, 2020, and January 29, 2021, the project team completed several activities. The soft skills training syllabus and material were developed in Arabic during this reporting period. The training will be delivered to students benefiting from the scholarships in the technical program, with a duration of 20 hours in total. The training material includes a students' kit and a teachers' kit, containing the training program description and 6 chapters with exercises and role-plays in PDF format. The project team also set an implementation plan for the upgrade recommendations related to the administrative and operational assessment of three LRC schools in Baabda, Saida, and Tripoli. This plan contains the dates of the coaching sessions, confirmed with the schools' directors, and the topics that will be discussed during each session. Additionally, the team attended an online training via Zoom on the 4th of December, 2020, delivered by two experts from IECD (Institut européen de coopération et de développement). The training aimed to introduce the TVET's Guidance and Employment Office Program understanding, explain how to create a GEO based on their experience and best practice, and discuss some challenges that might be faced during the creation of a GEO. Despite the sanitary crisis that led to the closure of public places and companies, the project team achieved all the planned activities during the reporting period. The team's efforts focused on developing the soft skills training syllabus and material, setting an implementation plan for the upgrade recommendations, and attending the online training on the Guidance and Employment Office Program. For the next reporting period, the project team plans to conduct several activities. These include observing and analyzing teachers involved in the delivery of the students' trainings, assessing the capacity of the teachers that will deliver the vocational training and the soft skills training, identifying third-party assessors to assess the teachers' capacity, implementing the upgrade recommendations based on the schools' assessment during coaching sessions, developing the fundamentals of the Employment and guidance offices in the LRC Nursing Schools, and conducting workshops for the employment officers of the LRC Nursing schools.