Project Proposal: Skill Development Training Program (SDTP) for the rural people, especially for the rural women and adolescent girls

01) NAME OF THE PROGRAM

Skill Development Training Program (SDTP) for the rural people, especially for the rural women and adolescent girls.

02) OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

A)  To create alternative working fields and self-employment situation in the rural area through providing Skill Development Training.

B)  To prepare the mid-leveled youths, especially the young educated women and girls, for the forth-coming data-entry firm in the country.

C)   To make the technical and modern technology based training easier for the mid-leveled educated girls and women of the rural area.

D)   To make available the teachers of Computer Science for the High Schools of that area through taking initiatives for the Teachers Training Program.

E)    To promote the technological awareness in the common people of the rural areas in our        country.

03) STRATEGY OF THE PROGRAM.

A)  Tailoring and Handicrafts along with the embroidery related training will be mobile in the proposed area.

B)   A Computer training center will be established in the field area.

C)   After the training program, the training center will be opened for income generating activities, for making dresses and data-entry activities.

04) DURATION OF THE PROGRAM.

This program will be started from January, 2015 and will be finished for the first session at the end of December, 2017.

05) MODE OF ACTIVITIES.

A)   To setup a permanent training center for the proposed program in the village xxxx of xxxx Thana.

B)   For the tailoring, handicrafts and embroidery training the organization will setup temporary training centers in the area as per requirements.

C)   Arrange computer-training program for the staffs of the existing offices in that area to provide modern training facilities on computer.

06) REQUIRED EQUIPMENT (detailed budget in Annexure-01)

Sl. No.	Name of Items	Quantity
1	Sewing Machine	20 units
2	Embroidery Machines	20 units
3	Computer (PC)	10 units
4	Dot Matrix Printer	1 unit
5	Laser Printer	1 unit
6	Voltage Stabilizer / AVR	5 units
7	Photocopier	1 unit
8	Cables & Others (Extension cord, Plug, Multi-Plug, Tools set, etc.)	10 set

07) OTHERS (FURNITURE) REQUIRED (detailed budget in Annexure-02)

Sl. No.	Name of Items	Quantity
1	Computer Table	4 units
2	Chair with handle	30 units
3	Normal Table	10 units
4	Half Secretary Table	2 units
5	Almirah	1 units
6	File Cabinet	2 units
7	Mat	20 units
8	White Board	4 units
9	Stationary	1 unit
10	Others for Decoration (Wiring, Painting, Curtain, Lock, etc.)	1 unit

08) STRUCTURE FOR TRAINERS (detailed budget in

Annexure-03)

a)   PROGRAM LEVEL:

Sl. No.	Name of the Post	No. of Employee	Minimum Qualification
1	Instructor (Tailoring & Handicrafts)	02	S.S.C.
2	Instructor (Embroidery)	01	S.S.C.
3	Instructor (Computer)	01	B.A. (Pass)

09) STRUCTURE FOR STAFFS (detailed budget in

Annexure-04)

b) ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL:

Sl. No.	Name of Post	No. of Employee	Minimum Qualification
1	Coordinator	01	Masters / B. Sc in Engineering
2	Accountant	01	Degree (pass)
3	Peon-cum-Guard	02	Eight pass

Note:

Detailed Budgets are attached herewith in Annexure-01 to Annexure-06. For the portion of the Budget, Salary Sheet, yyyy wants the estimated fund (Annexure-06) for the first three months' period only. From next session our organization will be able to bear all costs and expand its programs from its own income. The accounts of the probable income from this program and balance have been shown in Annexure-07 and Annexure-09.

10) PLANNING SHEET FOR THE PROGRAM.

¨       Tailoring and Embroidery programs will be divided into two sides: a) Stationed and b) Mobile.

¨       Ten (10) computers will be stationed in the head office of the organization for the training program. Short courses and long courses will be performed here for commercial basis.

¨       Every year, this organization (yyyy) will expand its program area with its own income.

11) TARGETS & OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

1.   To lessen the gap of qualities and existing realities in educational sector between the urban and rural areas.

2.    To make the technical and modern technology based education and training easier for the students of rural area, especially for the girls and women.

3.    To promote the technological awareness in the common people of rural area in our country through proper guidance.

4.     To make the rural people well equipped with modern technological education for the field of competition of searching jobs.

5.  To accelerate the private business sector based on modern technology like data-entry firm, assembling firm, TV-Radio-Cassette player servicing center, etc. along with various small farming and small cottage industries.

6.   To find out an educational model for socio-economic development of rural areas, not only for our country,  but also for the third world countries like us.

7.    To carry out thorough researches to identify the weaknesses of our education system and eliminate them.

8.    To integrate the rural youths in the field of socio-economic development of the rural areas.

9.    To identify the problems and prospect of education in rural areas.

10.  To find out the ways of rural socio-economic development.

11.  To encourage cultural activities in the rural area.

12.  To provide training and guidance to develop the skills in modern technology.

 12)   MODE OF ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT

The target of yyyy is to work as a mobile and dynamic center in rural areas of our country. It will provide its training and motivation programs in selected rural areas with comparatively a small working team. The modes of activities of YYYY are as below:

1)  It sets up a Center in the proposed project area first.

2)  yyyy selects most of the schools and colleges of that area to provide the education programs like computer science, arts & crafts, business management etc. according to syllabus of the Boards.

3)  YYYY will open also its technological programs for the general people in those areas for a short period in the premises of the schools and colleges of that area by establishing a special contract with the authorities of the schools and colleges to use their premises.

4)  YYYY intends to motivate the educated girls to involve them in the development courses at the grass root level of the rural area by providing proper training and assistance.

5)  It will undertake activities as a research organization to find out the real solutions of the present problems of the society.

13)  PRESENT ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT.

"YYYY" has been performing its operation with Computer Software and Hardware Training since 1994 under the same project name "YYYY" in Dhaka with joint collaboration of ZZZZ. It has a long time experience to perform the training courses like Operating Systems (MS-DOS, MS-Windows), Word Processor (Word Perfect, MS-Word, Word Star & Professional Write), Spread Sheet Analysis (Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro & Excel), Database Management (dBase, Fox Pro & MS-Access), Graphical Programs (Corel Draw, Harvard Graphics, Power Point, etc.) and also providing training on computer programming and languages like dBase and Fox Pro Programming, BASIC programming Language and C Programming language in Turbo-C.

Several Times YYYY conducts Hardware and Software Trouble Shooting Program at the same place from 1995. It has a long experience of assembling the computers.

YYYY presently is working with the training program of Tailoring and Embroidery in the village xxxx of Pabna. The next session of this course will be going to conduct from 1st August, 1997. It already has performed 2 (two) successful training programs on the same topics.

14) TARGET GROUP

1.  The students of schools and colleges in the rural areas.

2.  The High- and mid ranged educated youths, especially the educated women in           the rural areas.

3.  The employees/workers of GOs and NGOs working in the rural area.

4.  The distressed women and disabled persons in the rural area.

15) OFFICE

HEAD OFFICE:  YYYY' present Head Office in Dhaka at …….., Dhaka which is connect with the office of  "xxxx" at Motijheel Area.

This Office is equipped with 1 (one) Telephone and Fax and 2 computers. Project Director and Project Coordinator will be stationed here. They will visit the field areas randomly to survey the total situation of the project.

Local Offices: The Local Office will be as Liaison Office for YYYY and its mother organization xxxx. It’s targeted first Local Office will be opened at ….., Pabna. It will be the model for the future expansion of its program throughout the country in the forth-coming future.

Its study programs will be fully mobile within the area. But its local office will be established to meet up its requirements to provide full support and for various necessary actions. It also will be a liaison office for its study programs.

The local office will be well equipped with four to six rooms, one telephone set, a fax machine and a photocopier for meeting up its necessities. One Microbus for each field area will be stationed there to supply equipment and personnel for its study centers. Five Computers will also be stationed for long time to meet up some special occasion for the project.

16) ORGANOGRAM  (OFFICE  STRUCTURE)

Organization	Head Office (YYYY)
	Local Offices

                                              

                                              

17) JUSTIFICATION  OF THE  PROJECT

In the context of our socio-economic condition where a large number of young educated people including a huge number of educated female are jobless. They cannot contribute to the socio-economic development of themselves and their neighbors.

Our educational system is based on theoretical courses, not on practical implementation. So, even an electronics engineer knows nothing about the repairing sector of the electronics devices. They do not bother it, because they think that it is not their duty, it only for the uneducated (or lower educated) persons. Our systems make them idle and undone.

If an engineer, even a diploma engineer, becomes familiar with the practical sector of their related field, they may be small entrepreneurs or be small businessmen.

We may look towards another sector of our education system. The persons, who studied with commerce subjects, they also know nothing about the implementation of their learning. Actually our educational system provokes the students to earn certificates by the formal examinations of our systems. So, the students remain in dark as how to apply their knowledge in the specific field of the service or business sector.

In this context, YYYY realizes to provide a concrete and functional study method for the students and also for the persons who already finished their formal education life. YYYY also realizes that the women's status and power should be increased by provoking and including them in the stream of socio-economic development process. If the women may engage themselves in the earnings, they will be able to improve their miserable conditions in our society. Because only economic power of the women will provide power and status and make them as complete human being as male of our country. Otherwise, they will be found to remain in the miserable condition in the so called restricted society like us and they will be found to remain as preys of the powerful persons of our society.

Not only that, most of the higher- and mid-ranged educated women of our country keep them away from the income generating activities because of our system and lack of opportunities. Our mass people's mentalities also support them to do so. Our countrymen face a terrible problem of taking initiatives. It is our common habit. But, if any person (from any organization), takes the proper steps to push and compile the mass people into any development activities, they response towards those rapidly.

So, YYYY counts this matter for the proposed project. YYYY also counts another thing that the actual rate of the educated persons in our country faces a stagnated condition for the several long years. Actually this is why the people feel the jobless, even the work-less situation of the educated persons. This is prohibiting increasing the rate of educated persons in our country severely. Not only that for the same reason, the condition of dropout of the students is very serious. Table-1 shows the actual figure of the dropout case in the various level of our education system (Source of the Table: Bangladesh Educational Statistics, 1993).

Table-1: Drop-out Rates (%) at Primary and Secondary Level by

Grade and Sex.                                 (Page: 11 & 18).

LEVEL	SEX	GRADE
		I	II	III	IV	V
PRIMARY	Boys	19.8	9.4	15.7	8.0	8.2
(1992)	Girls	17.4	6.6	11.0	5.5	7.7
	Total	18.7	8.1	13.6	6.9	7.9
		VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
SECONDARY	Boys	0.3	6.3	9.2	8.9	23.7
(1993)	Girls	5.1	6.1	14.7	11.5	42.2
	Total	2.6	6.2	11.6	9.9	31.0

Another table (Table-2) shows the total dropout situation in our education system in the secondary level by sex (1993).

(Source: Bangladesh Educational Statistics, 1993).

Table-2: Total Drop-out Rates (%) in the whole system at Secondary Level by Sex, 1993. (Page: 19).

	Boys	Girls	Total
Dropout Rate	43.0	63.7	52.0

It indicates a critical trend for our educational systems to achieve the expected result from the education sector. For this problem, our development activities face a challenging situation within our country.

YYYY considers it as a result of frustration from being jobless persons in the coming years. This frustration produces some critical and unfavorable condition for the promotion of the education, along with the socio-economic development in our society, as:

1)  It prohibits increasing the number of educated persons.

2)  Majority of the people feel that education is not necessary for performing their socio-economic development activities.

3)  They are afraid of unruly and educated jobless youths.

4)  It also creates a unhealthy situation like drug addiction, hijacking etc. in the country.

Even the mass people are also dislike to send their girls to the school. This causes for the lack of proper education and for their conservatives attitudes (negative attitudes) towards the fruitless modern education of the country. This brings another danger of fundamentalism in our country.

All things of the above are fully justified by YYYY and YYYY will consider to set up proper process to help the educated persons to find out their own interested professions with the initiatives of their own.

YYYY also finds the urban areas in the country are considerably better equipped with modern facilities of education than the rural areas in Bangladesh. More than 85% of our populations live in the rural area, but they do not get any modern facilities like the urban peoples. It provokes YYYY to adopt the project in the rural area.

The main causes of taking the project to the rural areas of the country are:

1)  Lack of modern educational facilities in the rural areas. Hence, the gap of the education system and qualities between urban and rural areas are increasing day by day tremendously among the rural youths.

2)  Hence the jobless situation is wider that the urban. So, the jobless and work-less youths of the rural areas are gathered in the urban area, mostly in Dhaka city.

3)  The better half of the population, that is women, of the rural areas remain jobless and status less in those areas. There is no sector to absorb the educated youths, including educated women, of the rural area. Thus they (the women) are becoming easy prey to the reactionary and fundamentalist group of the rural areas.

4)  The organization feels to lessen the gap between urban and rural livelihood by providing skill development programs and by providing the correct directions and assistance to build up and strengthen both the micro- and macro-economic activities in the rural area.

5)  A large number of Govt. employees and NGO workers are working in the rural area. But, there is no “Skill Development Centers” for them in the rural area. So, YYYY holds it also as a powerful point to take the project to the rural area.

6)  There is another target to provide training for the actual poor, especially for the distressed women and handicapped persons to make them involved in the income generating program.

7)  YYYY is going to take the same project for the tribes at the same time in the Hill Tracts area. Because, the tribes are less educated and disadvantaged people in the country.

So, YYYY expects a tremendous impact of the proposed project on society, educational systems and on the socio-economic development process of the country. It will surely provide a dynamic force to shake our traditional society to engage in the development process. People will be very active for achieving the goal of the life of prosperity.

Our educational system will also be a dynamic section of providing proper education to the students, based on practical works. The research works of YYYY will change the educational system from theoretical to pragmatism.

YYYY also expects that the rural youths will be able to engage in the socio-economic development process by acquiring knowledge and by direct guidance of YYYY. The women will also be able to participate in the socio-economic development process. For the project, the small businesses like data-entry and composing firms, computer training institutes, electronics and electrical assembling and repairing firms, handicrafts production and business firms, leather products (like shoes, bags, parse, etc.) making firms, etc. will get a tremendous speed and the most of the active and educated youths will be engaged in this process.

This project may also be considered as valuable because of its importance in the field of producing the direct output. The table below shows the direct output of YYYY in a year basis. About 10,640 (ten thousand six hundred and forty) participants will be able to get training and technical assistance from YYYY in a year.

The direct output of the project is inscribed as below:

Sl. No.	Courses	Output (Per month)	Output (Bi-monthly)	Output (Yearly)
1	Computer Courses for Schools / Colleges	_	_	2000
2	Computer Software Training for Outsiders	200	_	2400
3	Hardware Maintenance & Trouble Shooting Course	_	20	120
4	Computer Assembling Course	_	20	120
5	Typing Course	20	_	240
6	Business Management Training	_	20	120
7	Personnel Management Training	_	20	120
8	Factory Management Training	_	20	120
9	Engineering Workshop	_	20	120
10	Tailoring & Embroidery Training	_	40	240
11	Electronics & Electrical Device Maintenance Training	_	20	120
12	Electronics & Electrical Device Assembling Training	_	20	120
13	Handicrafts (Leather)	_	40	240
14	Handicrafts (Mixed)	_	40	240
15	Decorative Quilt Making Training	_	20	120
16	Beef Fattening & Goat Rearing	100	_	1200
17	Wood Working	100	_	1200
18	Leather products Training		20	120
19	Api-Culture Farming Training	100	_	1200
20	Poultry & Duckling	20	_	240
21	Health & Pure Drinking Water	_	20	120
22	Bio-Gas Plant & Sanitation	_	20	120
TOTAL  OUTPUT  OF THE PROJECT (Yearly) =				10,640

Except this, YYYY also is going to undertake an extensive skill development training program for its field guides and teachers of non-formal education. This will produce a large number of beneficiaries indirectly for this project. YYYY will offer this training program for other NGOs and GOs also. It may be mentioned here that the targeted fields of skill development training are as below:

(1)  Basic Education Training,

(2)  Leadership and Management Training,

(3)  Health Education Program,

(4)  Community Development Training,

(5)  Human Rights, Legal and Cultural Education Training,

(6)  Skill Development Training for Employees and Group Members of

                NGOs and GOs and

(7)  Training for Teachers of Non-formal Education.

Hence, YYYY may summaries its program sections by a flow chart like as below and prove its necessities for our socio-economic context:

ORGANOGRAM   (PROGRAM)

Organization	Computer Training Section
	Office and Business Management Training Section
	Project Proposal Making Training Section
	Farm Management Training Section (Poultry & Duck Raising, Dairy, Beef Fattening, Fish-culture, Goat Rearing,  Api-culture & Nursery)
	Community Development and Awareness Training Section
	Training For Poor Women (Tailoring & Handicrafts)
	Environmental Protection Programs  (Afforestation, Water Supply &   Bio-Gas Plant )

 TARGETS & GOALS OF THE PROJECT

Organization	Computer Training (Software)
	Computer Training (Hardware)
	Office Management Training
	Secretarial Management Training
	Industrial Management Training
	Office & Factory Accounts
	Costing & Project Proposal Making
	Electronics & Power Mechanism
	Wood Working & Decoration Management
	Tailoring  & Decorative Quilt  Making Project
	Poultry & Dairy Firm Management Training
	Fish Culture & Hatchery Management Training

ORGANOGRAM (PROGRAM)

Organization:	Computer Section
	Management Training Section
	Poultry , Dairy & Fisheries Management Training Section
	Training For Poor Women (Tailoring & Quilt Making)
	Accounting & Costing  & Project Proposal Making Training Section