Employment Support and Referral Services

Activities under this subcomponent will provide training and support under 3 different areas.

1. Employment Support and Job Coaching will provide:

  • Support for graduates of Life Skills and Work Readiness Training to find meaningful employment with services such as job searches, job applications, CV preparation, obtaining references, interview preparation and mentoring.
  • Job coaching to participants from the Livelihood Skills Training program with services such as post training follow-up, technical coaching for livelihood action plans, and provision of tools to help the graduates ‘start up’ in livelihood activities or projects such as agriculturel kits with seedlings, small equipment, or machineries for food processing.

2. Information Sessions and Referral Services will:

  • Facilitate information and awareness sessions to be delivered by Government, civil society organisations, educational/vocational institutions and the private sector on a range of relevant topics related to livelihoods, education, training opportunities, well-being and social services.
  • Examples of sessions:  Vocational Training Opportunities for Youth (Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC); Distance and Flexible Learning Options (Solomon Islands National University (SINU); youSave (National Provident Fund) Health, Counselling and Family Support Services (Family Support Center); Financial Literacy and Savings (Bank of South Pacific -BSP).
  • May include linking participants to seasonal worker schemes, unskilled and semi-skilled labor components of infrastructure projects, and work to widen network of employers of community members.

    • 3. TRHDP Employment and Internship Opportunities:

  • Implement a system that identifies local employment and internship opportunities from TRHDP and links with employment ready community members.
  • Includes scoping out potential work opportunities under Component 2 of the CBSP 2 project.
  • Support will be provided to community members to link their skills to TRHDP employment and income generating opportunities.
  • For instance, farmers could organize themselves into small groups to supply produce directly to HEC Camp or into teams to provide labour for TRHDP construction.