The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MOICT) in Afghanistan launched an outsourcing training program called Learning & Earning in March 2013 to create 15,000 freelance outsourcers in the country over 19 months. So far, 197 trainings have been conducted, training over 11,000 freelancers. SEO training made up 43% of the trainings and accounted for 53% of earnings, while design and web training accounted for 27% of trainings and 26% of earnings. The document discusses the training program statistics in further detail.

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Technical Specialist IT/ITES (LICT)
FOCAL POINT
Learning & Earning MoICT
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2. •MOICT launched the outsourcing training programme under the
name of Learning & Earning on 18th March,2013 to create 15000
freelancing outsourcer throughout the country within nineteen
months.
•According to PPNB total 197(Basic-83,skill-114) trainings would be
conducted, among them 156 training completed.
•Created 11093 freelancers within 6months
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3. Name of Month No of Registered users No of Trained users
March 363 275
April 2899 830
May 10343 1480
June 13307 2086
July 14543 5143
August 18870 2261
TOTAL 60325 12075
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4. Type of Training Percentage of Training Percentage of Earning
Design to web 27% 26%
SEO 43% 53%
Technical & Creative
9% 5%
Writing
Graphics Design 21% 16%
TOTAL 100% 100%
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5. Ranking according to earning
Design to Web
SEO
Technical Creative
Writing
Graphics Design
Blog Writing
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6.  Social Media Marketing
 Video Marketing
 Design to web HTML5
 Seo panda and penguin submission
 Business planning
 Absence
 communicative English
 Keyword research before web dev.
 Mobile apps compatible Email, web etc.
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