Narrative Description of the Project:

The Building Youth Employability through Skills (BYETS) is a four-year-long programme supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) and implemented by Swisscontact. The project aims to empower 25,000 Bangladeshi youth (including 50% women) with improved technical, employability, and entrepreneurial skills and connect them to income-generating opportunities, namely, jobs and self-employment, in three sectors: ready-made garments (RMG), agro-processing (AP), and information and communication technology (ICT). The project has a special focus on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), Environmental Responsibility (ER), and Labour Rights and Decent Work (LRDW) within the technical modules to develop youth’s capacity on transversal issues.

In this context, BYETS signed a contract with IPTM to facilitate employment opportunities for youth across Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Chattogram in Bangladesh. The assessment's main purpose is to collaborate with the project team in providing upskilling and multiskilling training to the RMG workers in the Tier-1 factories. Under this assignment, IPTM is responsible for implementing field-level training at RMG factories and coordinating all training activities in collaboration with the project. A total of 220 participants will receive training from November 2023 to May 2025.

Key Activities:

• Inception Meeting with Swisscontact
• Prepare Inception Report and share with Swisscontact and will take feedback incorporation, finalization and submission of Inception report
• Module Customize the existing module of the BYETS project based on the factory’s demand
• Factory selection and onboarding 5-10 Tier-1 factories located in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Chattogram for implementation of Workplace-Based skills development training
• Selection trainers, assessors, and trainee for ToT, ToA, and workers' training programs in consultation with the factory management and BYETS project.
• Conduct Training of the Trainers (ToT), Training of the Assessor (ToA)
• Conduct fresher/helper and multitasking training for two batches in each factory
• Provide comprehensive backstopping services to each factory for ten batches.
• Prepare reports as per the criteria and template shared by the BYETS project
• Submitting the reports and documentation of Baseline information of trainees, post-training updates, Pre and Post-Assessment Reporting (each batch), Monthly inspection report, Bi-annual report, and Final Report.