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Monitoring and Evaluation
Related to country: Philippines

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Project monitoring and evaluation needs to go hand in hand. This is where the scheduling and action plans comes in handy.

Evaluations gives as feedback on how the project is perceived or experienced by the rest as well as provide us with some notes on improvements. This will give us an idea if our intended results were meet and how to improve in the future.

- Have you ever had to conduct an evaluation of a project before?

Working for an NGO, requires us to constantly evaluate our project at scheduled intervals. since we our mostly funder dependent as well as constantly seeking future funding.

- How can a project evaluation help you? your project team? and your stakeholders?

The evaluation tells you if your are on you way to meeting your project goals.

This helps the stakeholder by giving them an avenue to influence the way the project is being implemented as well as provides suggestions for improvements.

- How will you monitor and gather, analyze and report your findings to your stakeholders?

The use of a Gaants chart fot monitoring, and distribution of evaluation forms. An open line of communication also helps. A regular meeting is also advised.

August 11, 2009 | 11:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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Funding Ecosystem Youth Entrepreneurship
Related to country: Philippines

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When I was in High School I on several occasions successfully raised funds for school activities. But instead of the projects being adhoc I plan to encourage students to create one that would last. And contrary to traditional methods I would like for the students to earn some money for their work.

The ultimate goal being that they can continue this business outside of school.

Also during the Course we would encourage them to create business with low startup capital but good margin of return as a training for for their ideas.

A possible funder and partner for the event are the PTA's and the community itself. As well as my friends.

There are also several organizations that has a similar program. I could possibly partner with them.

August 11, 2009 | 10:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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Problem Statement: Youth Entrepreneurship Project
Related to country: Philippines

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According to a report made by the Philippine National Youth Commission (NYC) on its website out of 100 Pilipino school aged kids only 90 will be enrolled in Grade 1. 40 will finish High School and only 12 will eventually finish college.
NYC Education slide

The Data tells us that by the time youth gets to Secondary Education 60% will be considered Out of School Youth (OSY) and by Tertiary Education jumps to near 80%.
For every 100 unemployed Filipinos, 52 belonged to the age group 15 to 24 years.
By observations most common reasons for stopping school is the lack of financial resources. Most Pilipino youth are forced by circumstances to work at an early age to supplement the family income. Being “uneducated” they settle for low paying jobs which barely keeps them alive.

Some steps are being made by the government to address the issues but they are not enough. One such action is the passing of the Republic Act 9547, which expands the government subsidized student job plan.

Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas said Republic Act 9547, which takes effect April 23, enables a greater number of private and public entities to engage more youngsters 15 years of age but not more than 25 years old under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES).(http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=457979&publicationSubCategoryId=442)

“Congress decided to quickly build up the SPES in view of the growing number of youths desperately looking for productive work, so that they may have extra income not just to help finance their schooling, but also to support their families,” Gullas said. “This reinforced program will surely go a long way in addressing mounting youth joblessness,” he added. (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=457979&publicationSubCategoryId=442)

Teaching the youth to be entrepreneurs would help them finish their schooling as well as help provide future jobs for other people. This would lessen competition for jobs at the same time increase job availability.

July 1, 2009 | 10:26 AM Comments  1 comments

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