Dr. Catherine ChanProject Director, UPLOAD JOBS
Professor and ChairNatural Resources and Environmental Management
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human ResourcesUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
UPLOAD JOBS for Mindanao2015 USAID GLOBAL EDUCATION SUMMIT
November 2, 2015
Central Mindanao
• In the conflict-affected areas in Mindanao, there are as many out-of-school children and youth as there are in-school children and youth
• Mindanao’s underemployment rate is 25%, one of the highest in the country (USAID 2011). • Traditional livelihood opportunities for OSY are largely agricultural-based enterprises
dominated by unpaid family labor (Briones 2009)• Without appropriate skills, OSY, as unemployed drop-outs, become easy targets for
recruitment into counterproductive activities (USAID 2011)
Project OverviewUPLOAD JOBS for Mindanao seeks to provide out-of-
school youth (OSY) with workforce skills.
Partnership: Southern Christian College and the University of Hawaii with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
through the Higher Education for Development (HED)
Outline
• Agri-Entrepreneurship training program development and operating framework
• Factors leading to effective project implementation
• Challenges for project implementation• Sustainability via CAFE
Agri-Entrepreneurship Training Program Development & Operating Framework
a. Develop a program that considers regional context,
b. Monitor and evaluate the training program, examine training effectiveness
c. Adapt training program as needed without compromising the overall desired impact
Curriculum Development & Operating Framework
Set Goal
Develop indicators of success
Assess Baseline Data
- OSY Skills & Needs
- Business Demand
- Faculty & Institutional skills
& capacity
Review Standard Curriculum of successful
entrepreneurial programs
Courses & Content
Certificate Curriculum
Sustainable Training Model
Evaluate & Adapt
• To sustainably increase the institutional and human capacity of Southern Christian College
• To sustainably improve livelihood and increase incomes of community and out-of-school youth
Step 1: Set project Goal
Step 2: Develop Indicators of Success
How: Stakeholder collaboration – ground truthing, surveys focus group discussion and interviews with businesses and experts and literature reviews in indicator developmentWhat: Indicators • # OSY trained• # Trainers/Faculty trained• Development of a Center for Agriculture and Farmland
Entrepreneurship (CAFÉ)• Degree of satisfaction with the training programs
Step 4: Review Entrepreneurial Courses and Curriculum
Requirements by Certificate Program Mean
Number of courses 5
Credit hours 15
Total number of student hours 175-200
Most frequent course topics and syllabiIntroduction to EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurial MarketingEntrepreneurial FinanceBusiness Plan and Model DevelopmentEntrepreneurial Venture Creation
Reviewed 32 entrepreneurship certificate programs
Step 5: Align Baseline Assessments and Curricula Review (Combined Ground truthing Data)
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship• Entrepreneurial Marketing• New Venture Creation (Starting a new
business)• Entrepreneurial Finance• Business Plan Development
Entrepreneurial
• Crop Management• Postharvest• Pest management• Market Research
Agricultural
Curriculum Development FrameworkSet Goal
Develop indicators of success
Assess Baseline Data
- OSY Skills & Needs
- Business Demand
- Faculty & Institutional skills
& capacity
Review Standard Curriculum of successful
entrepreneurial programs
Courses & Content
Certificate Curriculum
Sustainable Model for Training
Phase 1: Train Phase 2: Coach Phase 3: Mentor
Sustainable Human Capacity Building Model: Train, Coach, Mentor (TCM)
UH Faculty
SCC Faculty
SCC Faculty
Out-of-school Youth
UH Coaching
SCC Faculty
OSY Trainers
Out-of-school Youth
UH Mentor
Men
tors
hip
Out-of-school Youth
UH Training
Phase 3: Mentor
Human Capacity Building Sustainability Model:Train, Coach, Mentor (TCM)
SCC Faculty
OSY Trainers
Out-of-school Youth
UH Mentor
Men
tors
hip
• Community extension and training
• Enhanced curriculum
• Youth-to-Youth training• Enter higher education• Continued
entrepreneurship/employment
What’s next?
Curriculum Development FrameworkSet Goal
Develop indicators of success
Assess Baseline Data
- OSY Skills & Needs
- Business Demand
- Faculty & Institutional skills
& capacity
Review Standard Curriculum of successful
entrepreneurial programs
Courses & Content
Certificate Curriculum
Sustainable Training Model
Evaluate & Adapt
Other evaluation methods
• Teaching content evaluation• Discussion of teaching methods with US
professors in entrepreneurship• Encouragement to adapt training to how the
OSY are progressing• Attend international conferences on teaching
and research on agri-entrepreneurship to evaluate teaching materials and pedagogies
Progress towards indicators• 200 total OSY attended training• 102 obtained certificate of completion
What are the OSY doing?• 31 OSY actively employed• 17 OSY enrolled in school• 87 OSY started a business• 20 OSY pursuing a business
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
Teach, Coach, Mentor Training (TCM) Model
1. Co-Teach first cohort of faculty & OSY
SCC Faculty and Staff
Out-of-school youth
2. SCC Faculty teach and UH Coach3. Select Faculty to become trainers
Train second cohort of OSY
Train other stakeholders
based on needs
Select FC to be trainers and select SC coached
Original trainers are observers and continue to
coach
Expansion of the capacity building programs to wider
communities
6 SCC Faculty Teachers
OSY Trainers-Barangays-NGOs
CAFÉ
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
Building SCC’s Institution and Human Capacities
• Agri-Entrepreneurship trainings• Colloquiums• Community workshops• Skills training• Stakeholder engagement workshops• International and domestic travel• Land grant model of higher education• Budget creation and management• Personnel management• Communication protocol • Website, newsletter, crowd sourcing• Team collaboration and effective
leadership
• Business skills training• Soft skills training• How to train yourself– Professional training– Consultants
• As needed
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
Annual Colloquium and TradeshowJune 2014, June 2015 (Twice)
• Interact with real businesses• Open mentorship
opportunities• Participate in competitions• Showcase their products• Customer evaluations for
their products• New UPLOAD JOBS
partnerships
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
Market Research for OSY products
• Consumer product preferences• Proposal and report writing• Survey administration• Academic poster presentation• Attend academic conferences• A new skill to conduct market
research
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
Trips to the U.S.2013: SCC Project team visits University of Hawaii, IFAMA conference in Atlanta
2014: SCC Faculty trainers present posters at conference in Baltimore, MD
2015: SCC Faculty trainers present papers at IFAMA academic conference, St. Paul, Minnesota
“This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the University of Hawaii and Southern Christian College and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or Higher Education for Development (HED).”
Linking with Local Government Units (LGU)•Support OSY business initiatives in their community•In-kind contributions to UPLOAD JOBS training•Assist with monitoring and evaluation•Open up market opportunities for OSY products
Linking with National Agencies and Institutions• TESDA• DTI• ATI• UPLB
Linking with private sector and businesses• On-the-job Training for OSY• General advising on entrepreneurship• Market linkages – shelf space for OSY products
Factors to effective project implementation
1. Continuous face-to-face mentorship between UH and SCC, SCC and OSY
2. Support from government and barangay officials3. Creativity and enthusiasm from OSY, SCC
teachers4. Excellent project leadership, strong coordination 5. Use current faculty to build the next generation 6. Income generation mechanism7. Effective promotion and marketing of programs
Factors to effective project implementation cont’d
8. Flexibility in training calendar and location9. Trust and mutual respect building 10. Training shifted more to sustain businesses11. Community and parents support12. Women leaders as role model13. Prescreen participants14. Transparency and authentic, professional
communication
Quotes• Ground truthing and detailed plans help to stay on course• Perhaps the most important positive factor of influence for this project were the
people involved and committed to making a difference in the lives of the out of school youth.
• The passion for people doing it. Sometimes I see people doing international work and their heart isn’t in it. That to me is the capacity building for the US and for the international partner
• People from UH are still willing to support us in our extension services. I think that is one of the best outcomes that money cannot buy
• The youth selection process was run at the community level and rooted in local support derived from an established protocol that involved government officials and barangay captains
• Having Dr. Chan (+Dr. Neyra) as a female lead, contributed to the empowerment for those female faculty
Challenges1. Continuous face-to-face mentorship between UH and SCC, SCC and
OSY2. Commitment for OSY to attend trainings
a. Ala carte modules
3. Train, Coach, Mentor model: ensuring that course content is transferred accurately and with relevancea. Bilingual evaluator
4. Incorporating ‘soft skills’ training into agri-entrepreneurship modulesa. Sales and leadership training
5. Satisfaction and progress difficult to monitora. Trainees invited to all SCC activities and update info collected
Challenges cont’d
6. Quality of training difficult to gauge using simple indicatorsa. Unintended benefits and costs
7. SCC fiscal management strong influence on program operationsa. resolved by face to face meetings
8. Too much empowerment at timesa. prize money
9. Getting commitment from teachers not directly under co-PI supervision
a. built capacity for cross units communication
10. High transaction costs to get trainers and traineesa. security reasons – more training to trainers
11. Sustainability of CAFE
Quotes• A major challenge of this potential program sustainability factor is
that the evaluation found that only a handful of the OSY’s businesses remained in operation at the time of fieldwork.
• Somewhat disjointed support of the CAFE among some leaders at SCC• There remains a significant amount of effort to be expended in order
to foreground the CAFE as the center of activity for UPLOAD JOBS once USAID funding has ceased, in large part due to the need to embed the place as a valuable and worthwhile extension of the UPLOAD JOBS project in the minds of all stakeholders
• The planning for sustainability of CAFE as a project outcome needed to begin earlier in the project
• But after a few years, we can walk away from that apple tree and it will bear fruit for 100 years. I think CAFE is like that seedling. In very early stages and still needs attention
What worked and what did not?7. Use current faculty +OSYs to build the next
generation Strong commitment by faculty
8. Income generation mechanismStrong business plans, selected businesses as model for
incubation and equity sharing
9. CAFÉ not grounded and institutionalized at SCCNeed a couple of years of mentoring – minimal costs. Words no actions.Director only working part-time supported by other
project
11. Stronger community and family supportSocial capital building
12.
Quotes• It has improved their livelihood and income• OSY are not idle anymore and with the skills gained, they will most
likely less vulnerable to be recruited to do unproductive activities (crimes, terrorism, etc.) in their communities.
• I don’t think they will ever forget their experience. You have to believe this is a good thing
• Positive psychological effects for the OSY, opening their minds, building confidence, and exposing them to new places and different people
• One of the larger retail business in Midsayap said that they could place their products there
• People from UH are still willing to support us in our extension services. I think that is one of the best outcomes that money cannot buy.
• Sense of accomplishment and pride in these achievements was expressed and observed
Data (18 OSYs surveyed in May, 2015)
Before training income in Phpaverage: 15,918 median: 6,500mode: 0
After training:average: 36,412median: 24,000mode: 20,000
What they were doing before?8 employed10 unemployed
What they are doing now?12 have businesses2 employed1 unemployed3 didn't answer
CAFÉ’s Core Businesses & Services1. Small-scale business incubator: Start-to-finish business incubator to support daily consultation with burgeoning agri-entrepreneurs, including providing production facilities and equipment, marketing and sales expertise, and financial guidance.2. Agri-business consulting: One-on-one consultations in marketing, financial management, sales, new ventures, and production3. Agri-entrepreneurship Training (Certificate): 10-day training opportunities on the basics of agri-entrepreneurship4.Community kitchen for food processing: Provide a key food production facility and rental equipment following Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to enhance food business production efficiency and scale-up
CAFE is the first academe-based agri-entrepreneurship incubator in Central Mindanao that strives to be financially self sustainable and income generating
AcknowledgementsThe author would like to acknowledge the UPLOAD JOBS for Mindanao project implementation team (Mary Pleasant, Rusyan Mamiit, Emilie Bayona, Dawn Hope Sulit, Jovelyn Bantilan Cynthia Lai, Jean Fantle-Lepcyzk, Michael Caligbayan, Angela Barrato, Dr. Elma Neyra, and Tins Lee) for making this presentation possible. Thank you also to all the SCC faculty trainers and U.S. based trainers who are the brains behind our agri-entrepreneurship training programs. Acknowledgement goes to Higher Education for Development and USAID Philippines for their support in the administration and funding of UPLOAD JOBS for Mindanao.
This presentation was adapted from the work of many people including Pleasant, Lee and Mamiit.
Thanks
People, Passion, Program and Pride
Salamat for a fun project!!
Financial Plan for CAFE
Request for Extension and Funding
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