Working with potential migrant and migrant youth In Cambodia, China, and Nepal to improve learning outcomes, life skills and personal safety

1. YOUTH ON THE MOVE
Working with potential migrant and migrant youth
In Cambodia, China, and Nepal
to improve learning outcomes,
life skills and personal safety

2. With limited
income
generation
opportunities,
many youth are
forced to leave
their villages in
search of
whatever work
they can find.

3. Without the
skills,
knowledge
and support
networks to
keep safe,
migrant youth
can be at risk
of forced
labor, abuse,
and
exploitation.

4. 2010 – 2015
World Education worked in CAMBODIA, NEPAL, and CHINA
with the goal of
reducing the vulnerability of migrant youth
to trafficking, exploitation, and abuse.

5. EDUCATION AND
SKILLS BUILDING
CHILD PROTECTION
YOUTH VOICEYouth on the Move’s
APPROACHSTRENGTHENING
LOCAL SERVICES

6. INTERVENTIONS FOCUSED ON:
Education & Skills
Building

7. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Literacy, numeracy and
basic education classes

8. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
School access and completion are ensured through
school re-entry programs, scholarships,
counseling and academic coaching

9. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Improving educational quality at schools:
increased relevance and enriched
learning opportunities

10. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Increasing youth’s readiness for the world of work through
soft skills, occupation awareness, practical
and technical skills building

11. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Youth develop life skills
like teamwork, confidence and communications skills; financial
literacy; knowledge about health, rights, personal safety and
migration

12. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Learning basic income generation skills

13. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Receiving grants and training,
youth form their own group enterprises
and savings groups

14. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Developing financial capabilities:
saving money, budgeting and
running a small business

15. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Peer-led programming:
Youth train new project participants to create a
product for their own group enterprise

16. EDUCATION & SKILLS BUILDING
Digital access and skill building

17. In Cambodia Youth
on the Move
developed the first
ever Khmer
language website
for migrant youth or
youth considering
migration.
The website
http://aims.worlded.org
contains resources
and simple lessons
to teach youth how
to migrate safely

18. INTERVENTIONS FOCUSED ON:
Promoting Youth Voice

19. PROMOTING YOUTH VOICE
Through youth clubs and peer education,
youth have set up their own activities,
projects and campaigns

20. PROMOTING YOUTH VOICE
Youth have become ‘change agents,’
participating in local government processes, presenting the
needs of youth and lobbying for allocation of government
funds

21. PROMOTING YOUTH VOICE
"Open Day" forums organized by local youth
provide a space for youth to discuss important issues
in their lives, from academic success to
domestic abuse and migration

22. PROMOTING YOUTH VOICE
Youth run their own campaigns
on chosen topics from gambling to forced
marriage or trafficking

23. Youth help
MANAGE,
MONITOR,
and
EVALUATE
the Youth on
the Move
Initiative

24. Youth on the Move
IMPACT

25. 5
YEARS
18,000
MIGRANT & POTENTIAL
MIGRANT YOUTH

26. CLASS PASS RATE
>78%
98%of students passing
NUMERACY & LITERACY
courses

27. INCREASED
KNOWLEDGE IN:

28. “.”
I used to be very
impulsive. Now I
put myself into
others’ shoes, and
try to be tolerant
and show my
understanding.
”
“

29. Graduates from the entrepreneurship course have gone on to
use their new skills to operate small businesses such as
tailoring, commercial vegetable farming, mobile snack shops,
and small grocery shops.

30. Before, I thought
that I had only one
choice, and that
was to go to
Thailand to make a
good income. Now
I have many
options to make
money around my
homeland.
”
“

31. In Nepal
2,918 youth
(mainly girls)
were able to join
formal school
after going
through Youth on
the Move.
93%
of these girls are
still enrolled in
school– a
phenomenal
achievement.

32. Youth on the Move interventions in migrant
schools in China introduced…
ICT
TRAINING
LIBRARIES
NEWSLETTER
CLUBS
PEER-
READING
LIFE SKILLS
CLASSES
…bringing radically new
and enriched learning
opportunities

33. In Nepal Youth on the
Move developed
school curricula to
address issues of
sexual abuse, child
marriage, and dowry.
Cambodian school
teachers are using
Youth on the Move
life skills curricula
on gender,
reproductive health
and migration.

34. Youth on the
Move has
fostered the
digital
inclusion of
>9,000
youth
since 2010

35. Youth groups and
peer education
have given youth a
VOICE and built
a wide range of
SKILLS in the
process, fostering
a cadre of
tomorrow’s
LEADERS

36. YOUTH ON THE MOVE
supporting over 18,000 youth to
stay in school or enroll in non-formal
classes and build the foundation and
life skills, practical skills, knowledge,
attitudes and behaviors to achieve
better learning and work outcomes
and protect themselves from abuse
and exploitation

37. Youth on the Move is implemented by World
Education, Inc. and between 2010 and 2014
was generously supported by the Oak
Foundation, Dream Blue Foundation, and the
International Labor Organization, among
others.