WomantoWoman

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Woman-to-Woman

• Mentoring and Capacity Building Leading to Job
  Creation for Orphaned Female Youth in Jordan

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YIF

• Main objectives are to create an opportunity for
  young Bank Staff to
• Channel the ideas, knowledge and energy of youth
  in the Bank as stakeholders in development
• Build, empower and catalyze youth in WBs client
  countries through partnerships in implementing
  projects.
• Key criteria met by winning applications include
  sustainable activities that build on on-going
  Bank operations and programs or link into CAS.
• Projects were given priority for using innovative
  approaches to project preparation, involving
  country participation, embracing cross-sectoral
  and cross-country activities and/or partnerships
  with local institutions.
• Awards for each winning project are limited to
  10,000. Selection of successful proposals is
  made by a senior Selection Committee comprising
  the Development Marketplace, the Children Youth
  Unit, and the Latin America Caribbean VPU.

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The Problem

• In Jordan, at the age of 18, orphan residents of
  care centers are required by law to leave these
  centers. At this very critical age, they find
  themselves without a home, wanting guidance and
  lacking a source of emotional and financial
  support.
• Without higher education, skills, networks, or
  experience, they are usually obliged to accept
  low-income jobs in a strive to cover their
  immediate living expenses. Very often, these
  youth become overrepresented in prison
  populations because of mounting financial
  pressures, shortage of money-management skills,
  absence of suitable jobs and lack of support.
  Females are the most vulnerable of this
  disadvantaged group of youth.

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Description of Activities

• Woman-to-Woman project was designed to help young
  orphaned women receive guidance and mentoring and
  improve their skills, with a long-term goal of
  creating opportunities for them to be employed in
  well-paid jobs upon graduation.
• Orphaned females aged between 19 and 25 were
  placed in internship programs at
  organizations/units managed by female executives.
  They spent 2 or 3 half-days weekly for 3months
  being coached on life and work skills.

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Deliverables

• Receive guidance and mentoring
• Improve their employability and life skills
  (capacity building)
• Create productive jobs opportunities
• Provide income support to the interns throughout
  the duration of the project.
• Introduce them to successful female role models
• Network with business owners, up- and- coming
  professionals and successful professional women.

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Additional Training
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Relationship of Proposal to World Bank
Operational and Policy Work

• This project proposal is aligned with the World
  Banks Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for
  Jordan for the period FY2006-FY2010.
• CAS Cluster 1) Strengthening the Investment
  Environment and Building Human Resources for a
  Value-Added Skill-Intensive and Knowledge-Based
  Economy.
• CAS Cluster 2) Supporting Local Development
  Through Increased Access to Services and Economic
  Opportunities.
• CAS Cluster 3) Reforming Social Protection and
  Expanding Inclusion.
• The proposal is especially relevant to the
  following Country Development Goals
• Create jobs and income opportunities (CAS Cluster
  1).
• An employer-driven training system producing
  skilled workers that employers want (CAS Cluster
  1).
• Promote pro-poor economic opportunities (CAS
  Cluster 2).
• Poverty reduction through better targeted and
  coordinated social services, and income support
  for the poor and disadvantaged (CAS Cluster 3).

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Evidence of impact

• Mashael I lived in care centers almost all my
  childhood, I married at eh age of 17 to a fellow
  orphan, I took the opportunity that Al Aman Fund
  provided and I am currently studying a vocational
  education course at the Sight and Sound
  Institute. My dream is to become an office
  manager or executive secretary. Taking an
  internship with the Municipality of Amman at
  Queen Rania Park, provided me with the
  opportunity to learn from Meriam, my manager,
  how to apply my office skills, and opened my eyes
  to the importance of a child care center in the
  work place, because I was relaxed in an
  environment that cares about employees children,
  I took my child with me to the Queen Rania Parks
  day care center, and we both enjoyed it.
• Razan I took an internship at Siyaha, the
  national USAID funded program, there, I
  discovered my potentials and learned a lot about
  the skills that I still need to master to be able
  to excel in my future career. As soon as I finish
  my studies in business administration at Jordan
  University, I am planning to apply for a job at
  Siyaha, to secure a living and build my
  experience.

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Future dissemination of the project

• Al Aman Fund aims to expend the beneficiary base
  for this program in 2009, to include 100 interns,
  females and males, and to give them the
  opportunity to be trained and to practice what
  they learned in college in a real work situation.
• If adequate funding is made available to allow
  for employment of a dedicated team to manage the
  project, and for subsidizing part of the
  internship financial compensation, this can
  become a countrywide initiative. Internship
  opportunities can be identified for hundreds of
  female and male orphans.
• It can be expanded further to include all
  disadvantaged youth in their final phases of
  study at universities, technical colleges, and
  short courses.

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My personal learning experience with YIF and W2W

• In this project I learned that a small budget,
  real commitment, and building partnerships are
  enough to make a difference in the lives of tens
  of disadvantaged people.
• 10,000 made a positive difference in the lives
  of 110 people- (less than 100 per person) (carry
  over benefits and learning experiences)
• This project has shown that the community is
  eager to support orphaned youth, and all that is
  needed is an entity that would manage the
  process, and a will to motivate stakeholders and
  lead them when the need arises.
• I am grateful to YIF for giving me the chance to
  create and manage this project, and by doing so
  to participate in creating a better tomorrow for
  Jordanian orphaned females and youth.

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Thank you

• Dana S. Shuqom , MSc, CM
• World Bank STC
• Executive Director- Business Professional
  Women-Amman