The LEGACY Project in Liberia, an initiative of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), works to increase opportunities for formal schooling, skills training, and improved protection for children and youth. The project in Liberia supports the development of a vocational/skills training program driven by labor demand; enhances the quality of training in market-driven skills; creates linkages with the private sector and local businesses; enhances job-seeking abilities; targets marginalized at-risk youth, emphasizing gender equality; influences the design and monitoring of projects to ensure programs will give Liberian youth the requisite skills that will allow them to find work and earn a living wage; and builds networks of all the relevant stakeholders to increase their ability to influence policy and practice.
The main objective of LEGACY project activities in Liberia is to increase access of girls and traditionally excluded youth to quality and relevant technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Lofa and Nimba counties. This objective will be achieved by:
- Establishing a National Working Group (NWG) to set standards and advocate for increased quality and relevance of and access to TVET by girls and traditionally excluded youth;
- Increasing quality and relevance of TVET in targeted TVET institutions in Lofa and Nimba counties;
- Increasing access of targeted vocational training centers (VTCs) by girls and traditionally excluded youth; and
- Increasing the income levels of targeted VTCs and providing support for more girls to access vocational training on an ongoing basis.
These initiatives will promote increased accountability of the Government and NGO vocational training practitioners to provide marginalized older youth with safe opportunities to learn and apply marketable skills, working to ensure the relevance and impact of vocational training.
LEGACY Initiative
SEEP PLP for Youth and Workforce Development
Abu Macpherson
abu.macpherson@liberia.theirc.org
Carrie Berg
Youth and Livelihoods Program Manager
Carrie.berg@theirc.org
