The document proposes introducing a "Business Education & Career Guidance Program" called "Business Academy for Children" (BAC) in Mongolia. The BAC would be an after-school program to empower high school students with business and leadership skills. It would have three components: an information platform, educational courses on business/entrepreneurship, and networking opportunities. The program aims to address issues like education-occupation mismatch and lack of career guidance. It plans to reach 1,000 students annually and gradually expand nationwide.

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Country Strategy (2012-2016) Planning Meeting
Mongolia
December 15 & 16, 2011
Introducing a “Business Education & Career
Guidance Program” for high-school age
children in Mongolia
Education Working Group
The Business Council of Mongolia
Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Key Issues and Challenges
The education-occupation mismatch
Growing economic inequality in Mongolia
Focus on TVET to-date
Lack of quality youth empowerment and career
guidance programs targeted at high school age
children

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Save the Children’s proposed initiative
To address the challenges, Save the Children is
planning to initiate an Education for Youth
Empowerment (EYE) program called:
“Business Academy for Children”

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What is “Business Academy for Children (BAC)”?
It is a structured and interactive
after-school program for aspiring
children to discover and develop their
leadership potential in business and
public sectors.

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Primary Target
Self-motivated high-school age children
(14-17 year olds) and their parents
from disadvantaged backgrounds
•Urban ger and rural communities
•Include TVET students of the same age group

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Target – Cont.
But, any children of the same age
group, who are self-motivated to learn
about business, entrepreneurship,
economics, and management, will also
be able to enrol in the program

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Vision & Mission of “Business Academy for Children”
Program vision: To be as an information,
education, and networking hub of choice for
children in business, entrepreneurship, and
management.
Program mission: To empower aspiring children
with the essential competencies necessary to
become insightful, industrious, and authentic
business and public leaders of tomorrow.

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Program Components
BAC is a structured and interactive after-school
program, which contains the following three
components:
1)The information component
2)The education component
3)The networking component

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The information component:
•a comprehensive, internet-based information
sharing platform to share:
 latest business/economy;
 self-development; and
 career planning related information
for high-school age children
Program Component 1

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The information component:
• Linked to MCA’s Labor Market Information
System (LMIS), Career Guidance Services (CGS),
and other useful and relevant websites.
Program Component 1 – Continue

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The education component:
•provides an extra-curricular after-school
learning opportunity for aspiring children, who
want to develop their competencies in:
 Business
 Entrepreneurship, and
 Management
in order to lift themselves out of poverty.
Program Component 2

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The education component – Academic Curriculum
Course Option 1
(50 hours)
The Core Curriculum
(30 hours)
Pre-vocational
Foundation Course
(20 hours)
Course Option 2
(150 hours)
The Core Curriculum
(30 hours)
Pre-vocational
Foundation Course
(20 hours)
Business & Org.
Management
Foundation Course
(100 hours)
Course Option 3
(250 hours)
The Core Curriculum
(30 hours)
Pre-vocational
Foundation Course
(20 hours)
Business & Org.
Management
Foundation Course
(100 hours)
Basic Economics
Foundation Course
(100 hours)
Program Component 2 – Continue
3 hours/week x 17 weeks (4 months)
3 hours/week x 50 weeks (12 months)
3 hours/week x 83 weeks (20 months)

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Program Component 2 – Continue
The education component – Program Facilitation
• Full-time program trainers & facilitators
• Junior facilitators (Masters and Doctorate students)
• Experts and specialists from corporate and NGO
partners
• Guest lecturers – to facilitate key, specific subjects
as per the course curriculum

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Program Component 2 – Continue
The education component – reach
•Initial target – reaching 1,000 children per year
directly
•Enrolled at 20 different after-school (“satellite
campus”) locations
•Rolled out gradually and strategically to other
locations across the country

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The networking component:
•Social networking with children from various
backgrounds, who are like-minded or are interested in
the common industry or occupation subjects
•Business networking with TVET schools; interested
industries/companies; partnering universities, etc.
They in tern benefit from the program
Identify new industries/companies (for children)
Talent search (for corporates/academia)
Program Component 3

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• The Secretariat function with full-time staff
The responsible program management agency (for
the inception years) – Save the Children
But staff to be hosted by Save the Children,
MNCCI, BCM(?) and other non-governmental
Steering Group member agencies
• Steering Group (up to 25 members)
• Thematic Working Groups (tbd)
Program Governance & Administration

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Income sources:
1. Tuition & fees
2. Scholarship and sponsorship programs
3. Grants and donations
4. Income from intellectual property
5. In-kind contributions
Note: An annual program operational plan and budget
to be approved by the Steering Group (and SC board)
Program Financing

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Example
•% of program alumni enrolled in TVET or majoring at
tertiary education institutions in the vital industry
sectors, as according to their new aspirations.
Program Outcomes (the end of 5 year inception years)

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Examples – Conti.
•New consumer products and service ideas being
generated for the corporate partners by the children of
after-school program, with a combined net market
value of USD XX million or more.
•A Career Counsellor Training Program is being
introduced to the education sector in Mongolia.
•XXXXXX, etc.
Program Outcomes (the end of 5 year inception years)

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• Gradual and strategic roll out the program
across the country
• To have BAC program certified by the MoES as
a certified after-school program
A long-term strategy of the BAC program

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• (SC to) Advocate for and support school-based
vocational education & training programs at soum-
level, targeting children of herders and herder
dropouts, in the following trades (not exhaustive):
 Profitable livestock rearing and marketing
 Commercial vegetable production, preservation, and processing
 Commercial cookery
 Hospitality service and management
 Grocery store operation and management
 Auto-mechanics
 IT services and repair (computers, smart/mobile phones)
A long-term strategy of the BAC program – Conti.

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• Promote Career Guidance and Counselling as a recognized
(certified) profession in Mongolia; Career Counsellor
positions to be created within the public education system
in Mongolia
• Link the school-based vocational programs and Career
Guidance and Counselling programs (both to be run by
schools/education authorities) with the BAC program
activities
• Change the Program Secretariat status to a national NGO,
to continue to operate and manage the programs
A long-term strategy of the BAC program – Cont.

23. Inquiry about the program
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Contact Information
Name: Mitsuaki Toyoda, Country Director
Save the Children in Mongolia
Email: mitsu@savethechildren.mn
Tel: +976-11-329371 (office)