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INTERIM NARRATIVE REPORT FROM EOH

AUGUST 2014

LINK TO THE EOH WORK READINESS INITIATIVE

THE INITIATIVE

When EOH first approached the Rockefeller Foundation
to discuss a partnership in South Africa, the basis for
working together was the EOH Youth Job Creation
Initiative, in so far as it supported the objectives of Digital
Jobs Africa.

This section of the report describes the EOH Work
Readiness Initiative which was the recipient of a
Rockefeller Foundation grant under its Digital Jobs Africa
initiative.

However the Foundation elected to support a smaller
component of the YJCI, the work readiness component,
in order to be able to measure impact over a shorter
time-period with a view to re-evaluating and possibly
expanding the partnership with EOH after this initial
“pilot”.

WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES?
The initiative aims to (1) train, mentor and place
disadvantaged youth in permanent jobs and (2) develop a
web-based workforce readiness training programme21 to
scale up the EOH Youth Job Creation Initiative.
These two purposes are realised in separate but
related components of the programme: (1) the EOH
Work Readiness Programme, and (2) the EOH Learner
Communication Platform, collectively referred to in this
document as “the initiative”.

THE GRANT
▲▲ Grant number
−− 2014 DJA 305
▲▲ Budget
−− Up to $1,009,308 funded out of a total budget
of $1,654,358 the balance of $645,050 was
contributed by EOH
▲▲ Purpose
−− Toward the cost of training, mentoring and
placing disadvantaged youth in permanent
jobs and developing a web-based workforce
readiness training programme to scale up its
Youth Job Creation Initiative
▲▲ Duration
−− 12 months from 1 March 2014 to 28 February
2015
▲▲ For more details please see the Grant
Agreement

21 Also called the “virtual learning platform” in the Rockefeller Foundation Grant
Agreement

The initiative

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