A platform that connects government, skills development, service providers, industries, and youth.
32 Government departments under 23 Ministries, ICT Division & Cabinet Division (Host Ministries), National Skill Development Authority, Prime Ministers Office (National Coordination Agency), UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, UNDP Somalia, Ministry of Communication & Technology, Somalia, UNDP Jordan, Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Jordan
There is a mismatch between the demand and supply of relevant skills is considered to be the key reason behind unemployment and inefficiencies of the labor market. According to ILO, in Bangladesh alone, each year almost 2 million youths are joining the countryâs 82 million labor force. These youths often face hassles of going to multiple offices to collect the right information regarding skills, education, employment and entrepreneurship that leads to spending huge costs and time. A significant portion of these youths live in the disadvantaged areas (i.e., hill tracts, river islands) where youth unemployment is on the rise because of social, economic, political and geographical seclusion. Furthermore, the stakeholders of skills, education, employment and entrepreneurship - youth, skills providers and industries and employers usually operate in silo approach, without any linkages among them, which ultimately leads to widening supply-demand gap.
âNational Intelligence for Skills, Education, Employment & Entrepreneurship (NISE)â is a one-stop data platform that is matchmaking among its broad range of stakeholders - government departments under ministries relevant to skills development, public and private skills service providers, industries, and youth. The core mission of this platform is to bridge the gap between the demand and supply sides to create employment opportunities for the youth. All the stakeholders are brought under one umbrella to make sure that quality and demand driven skills development trainings are accessible by the youth while adequate and appropriate job placement announcements can be reached to the right target audience. This platform is helping the country to accomplish SDG 4- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (Target 4.3- Equal access to affordable technical, vocational and higher education, Target 4.4- Increase the number of people with relevant skills for financial success and Target 4.5- Ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations) and SDG 8- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (Target 8.5- Full employment and decent work with equal pay, Target 8.6- Promote youth employment, education and training) by 2030 successfully and become a developed country by 2041.
ï Increased access to informationo The registered employable youths especially the youths in hard-to-reach hill tracts and riverside island areas are able to access information on AI based career guidance, skills trainings, job forecast, apprenticeship opportunities, business and entrepreneurship guidance, migration suggestions, etc. o Platformâs real-time data can be accessed by the public and private skills providers for analyzing and identifying current skills in demand and forecasting future jobs.o Information on employment opportunities can be reached by all youth as industries to advertise job vacancies targeting the right audience.o Linkage between skills providers and industries facilitates information sharing amongst them on emerging job opportunities, skilled manpower, and market driven skills. o Policy Makers can monitor and evaluate the youth database, entrepreneur database, access employment tracker feedback and other real-time data in an analytical framework that ultimately helps in evidence-based decision making.ï Social inclusivity o NISE follows âleaving no one behindâ approach in ensuring information accessibility for all and minimizing digital divide. o While designing the platformâs architecture, priority has been given to the people with disabilities to make this system socially comprehensive. For their swift accessibility, the platform offers specialized services- i.e., voice command, reading guide, font customization, cursor customization etc.o Online registration in everything, from skills training to job search, directly benefits the people with disabilities and the people in socially secluded areas. o The platform is also available exclusively for the minor ethnic groups of the hilly areas to support in strengthening inclusive development who are the most lagged behind community in the country because of the geographical disparity. ï Meaningful employmento NISE also facilitates job fair arrangements throughout the country. Whenever a job fair is arranged on district level, the registered youths on that district are notified through NISE and they can submit their resumes beforehand. o The interested industries of that district participate in the fair by setting up their organization stalls and after taking walk-in interviews they can hire skilled youth instantly if their skills are matched with the demands of the industries.o These job fairs are specifically impactful for the youths from the deprived communities.
â 0.4 M unemployed youth registered in NISEâ Piloting started by SME Foundation to reach 7.8 M CMSMEs in Bangladesh to ensure Access to Skills â Government of Somalia has replicated NISE in the name of âShaqo Abuurâ for the skills development & decent employment of 5.32 M Youthâ Government of Jordan has replicated NISE in the name of âDigi Maharatâ to provide skills development & employment and entrepreneurship support to 2.8 M Youth
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