Business Development Services
The aim of the Vocational Training Program is to improve the skills and knowledge of its beneficiaries in order to modify their professions according to the labor market’s needs. The program consists of theoretical and practical part of the training.
Who are the beneficiaries
Refugees and IDPs who show initiative for employment/self-employment, but whose education does not fit into the local market
Advantages
Increasing the education level is the step toward faster employment and income generation. That is why a lot of beneficiaries decide to choose vocations with higher possibilities of employment.
Beneficiaries have the possibility to choose the Vocational Training type individually, as well as the place where they will take practical training.
Theoretical Training
Theoretical part of the training is run in cooperation with local educational institutions (workers’ universities, private centers for learning). After course completion, beneficiaries take exams in order to obtain diploma for:
• individual running of business
• regular employment
Practical Training
• Practical training for the activities that the beneficiary is being
trained for, is run in companies or workshops
• Except obtaining of practical skills, the beneficiaries are becoming
familiar with ways of working, work organization, relations with clients
• After practical training, the beneficiaries are ready to perform
that activity, to integrate easily into working environment and to
adjust to the market needs successfully
• Large number of clients remain employed with the firms/workshops
where they had their practical part of education
• After the completion of the training, the beneficiaries who are
decided for self-employment can apply for micro-credit within Micro
Development Fund, in order to start-up or expand their current business.
• Practice has shown that this type of education is one of the most
efficient ways of increasing the educational level of the young and
the adults.
Program Statistical Data
Program has been functioning since 2000. About 2500 (Vocational Trainings) have been conducted since the beginning of the program’s implementation, including more than 1200 women. The following municipalities have the biggest number of approved projects: Nis, Leskovac, Prokuplje, Krusevac, Kraljevo, Uzice, Cacak, Jagodina, Kragujevac.
