This document summarizes the work of CEFE International in improving youth employability. It discusses CEFE's tools for registration, orientation workshops, job placement, entrepreneurship training, and business start-ups. Over 16,000 youth registered, over 3,000 obtained jobs or started businesses. CEFE also worked on agropreneurship training to help rural youth groups increase incomes from farming. Their new concepts, tested in 3 areas, helped increase traditional farming incomes an average of 10 times while fostering willingness to change methods. Next steps include integrating the concepts into vocational curricula.

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CEFE
Examples/Experience

2.  Training for small tourism
businesses
 3 modules:
 customer attention /12 hrs
 creativity & innovation /12 hrs
 markets and selling /16 hrs
 training courses developed
 pocket guides written

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Objective: Improvement of youth
employability
4 tools promoting employability, job
placement and business creation, and
adapting them to local labour markets
Demand
Oriented
Training
Orientation
Registration Job Placement
Workshop
Business
Creation
Peter Baerenz and Marlinde Baerenz

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 Registration: 16,223
 Orientation Workshops: 3,164
 Job Placements: 3,001
 Entrepreneurship Training: 106
 Business Start-ups: 17
Peter Baerenz and Marlinde Baerenz

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 rural development / farming
 107 youth groups formed since
2010 (target was 30)
 vocational training is purely
technical
CEFE task:
 market understanding and
business competence =
‘agropreneurship’
Peter Baerenz and Marlinde Baerenz

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 new concept on ‘Bottom Line
Counselling’:
 qualification of Youth Group
Counsellors
 radically simplified business
planning
 10 core counselling tools
 New concept on Ruralmento
Training for youth groups
 2-3 days training
 selection of better crops,
financing, water, cooperatives
First results – 3 field tests
 willingness to change traditional
farming
 average increase of income: 10 times
Peter Baerenz and Marlinde Baerenz

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First results – 3 field tests
 willingness to change traditional
farming
 appreciation of independence
 average increase of income: 10 times
Next steps:
 integration into vocational training
curricula
 capacity building of vocational
trainers
 concept for Ruralmento 2: agro-
processing, value chain, market
diversification
Peter Baerenz and Marlinde Baerenz