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DOT-COM Activity: Brazil - Programa Para o Futuro
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DOT: dot-ORG
Country: Brazil
Funder(s): USAID/Brazil
Short Description: dot-ORG has developed an innovative and ambitious workforce development program for at risk youth by integrating ICT training and employability activities.
Phase/Type of Activity: Signed Award Status: Completed
Start date: November 01, 2002 End Date: October 31, 2004
Partners: Brazil Programa Para O Futuro , Casa de Passagem , CDI-Pernambuco , LTNet-Brasil
Person(s) to contact
Contact
Eric Rusten , Project Director
Programa para o futuro , Academy for Educational Development
Email:
Tel: (202) 884-8714
Contact
Tania Ogasawara , Project Coordinator
Programa para o futuro , Academy for Educational Development
Email:
Tel: +55 81 3419-8014
Full Description: dot-ORG, in collaboration with USAID/Brazil, developed an innovative and ambitious strategy to strengthen the Mission's Youth At Risk Program by integrating ICT training and employability activities.
Staff from the dot-ORG project at the Academy for Educational Development (AED) designed, directed and administered this pilot project. AED, in partnership with four Brazilian NGOs, Casa de Passagem, CDI-Pernambuco, LTNet-Brasil and Porto Digital, implemented PPF in Recife, Brazil. All but LTNet-Brasil were located in Recife. These NGOs were chosen as partners because of their unique strengths, knowledge about Brazil and Recife, experience working with disadvantage youth, networks with local business, and in one case, the capacity of one NGO to develop and refine the PPF curriculum and learning methods.
Many of those at risk are young women, and this effort explicitly included activities to attract at-risk young women into ICT training programs and create opportunities for them to become paid ICT interns in schools, NGOs and businesses, and to gain employment after completing the program activities.
A key element of the project was the design of a curriculum for employability. This curriculum integrated for broad areas of learning and skills development: 1) Basic Education Skills; 2) ICT Technical Skills; 3) Social and Life Skills; and 4) Employability Skills. The initiative utilized a project-based approach to learning in order to prepare students to be knowledgeable workers able to meet the dynamic demands of today's workplace. The project also established an e-mentoring program linking youth with IT professionals across Brazil via Internet communication tools and established an online community for projects in Brazil focusing on improving the lives of youth at risk.
Public-private partnerships were also critical to the design and ultimately the success of the project. Throughout the project, AED and PPF staff created and maintained strong links to the private sector in Recife and around Brazil to ensure that training activities and the skills gained by the youth would match those in demand by the job market. Private sector partners include the Bank of Brazil, IBM-Brazil, Microsoft Brazil, IBRATEC (the premier IT technical college in Northeast Brazil), and ABA (a well established English language school in Recife). In addition, some 36 companies and organizations in and around Recife participated in the e-Mentoring program.
Update/Results: The fifty students graduated from the program and all forty-two who already held high school diplomas have been enrolled in IBRATEC, a two year IT degree program. All students have been given free scholarships for this program, which not only allows them to pursue college degrees in IT, also makes them eligible for apprenticeship and internship programs. Over 60% of the students are employed in these programs or other opportunities with local businesses.
The national Brazilian human resource professionals organization presented six of the youth to their members to demonstrate this model program for all of Brazil. Towards the end of the program, youth were using the training facilities and mentors to improve their skills, and for those who have not yet found jobs,to prepare for interviews and submit applications.
As of May 2005, approximately one year after formal training ended, 92 % of the PPF graduates have worked, were attending post-secondary school, or both. The 92% "employability rate" achieved by PPF surpassed all expectations.
Based on the PPF experience, dot-ORG staff believe this new model for employability can be replicated within Brazil and elsewhere and scaled up to address the growing demand for this type of initiative. To find out more about the project's achievements, read the final report and/or Programa para o Futuro: Enabling Disadvantaged Youh to Build New Futures.
Development Sector(s): Enterprise Development, Education Partnerships, Participant Training, Workforce Development
ICT Intervention(s): Capacity Building, Public Administration, ICT and Women, LAN/network infrastructure, Public/Private Partnerships, Technical Training
Links and Files:
- Programa Para o Futuro (PPF) - Reunion
Four months after the formal end of Programa Para o Futuro, (PPF) youth and staff met for the first time. Casa de Passagem provided the meeting room, the same room where over a year-and-a-half-ago the selection process for the youth had taken place. Rosangelaì, Casas Activity Coordinator and Tania, the PPF Program Coordinator, organized and managed the event. This document provides an update on the project's beneficiaries four months after the end of the project.
- Web site of Programa Para o Futuro: http://http://www.programaparaofuturo.org.br
Web site of Programa para o Futuro, an IT employability program for disadvantaged youth in Brazil.
- Programa Para o Futuro (PPF) - Final Report: http://https://dot-com-alliance.org/documents/Brazil/PPF-FinalReport-noAppendix5-7.pdf
Final Pilot Project Report
November 30, 2004
Prepared for USAID/Brazil by the Academy for Educational Development & the dot-ORG Project
Written by: Eric Rusten, Tania Ogasawara and Vera Suguri Edited by: Barbara Fillip
[This file does not include appendices 5 and 7 which are in Portuguese and posted separately]
File Size: 6112 KB
File Type: PDF
- Program Para o Futuro (PPF) - Final Report: Appendix VII - Collection of news articles: http://https://dot-com-alliance.org/documents/Brazil/Brazil PublicationsAppendix7.pdf
A collection of articles in Brazilian newspapers about the Programa Para o Futuro Project - in Portuguese
File Size: 27 MB
File Type: PDF
- Programa Para o Futuro - Final Report : Appendix V: Student Reflections and Testimonials: http://https://dot-com-alliance.org/documents/Brazil/PPF-Final Report-Appendix5.pdf
This document is a collection of reflections and testimonials from youths who participated in the Programa Para o Futuro project in Brazil.
Document Language: Portuguese
File Size: 8321 KB
File Type: PDF
- Programa para o Futuro - Enabling Disadvantaged Youth to Build New Futures: http://http://acat.aed.org/Publications/PPF-Eng-Final.pdf
This AED publication highlights lessons learned from the Programa para o Futuro Project implemeted by AED and partners in Brazil with core funding from USAID.
- Programa para o Futuro (AED Monograph in Portuguese): http://https://dot-com-alliance.org/documents/Brazil/6ProgOFut_PortugeseML.pdf
This AED publication highlights lessons learned from the Programa para o Futuro Project implemeted by AED and partners in Brazil with core funding from USAID. This is the Portuguese version. See also the English version.
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