Innovate youth program

...innovate focus on reduce the vulnerability of conflict affected youth through increased livelihood outcomes, and restore psychosocial well-being and build opportunities for youth to access employability skills (technical and transferable), internships, and support to start their own businesses. KEDO center is established with the main objective of serving as safe and public places where women, men, boys and girls of diverse background can meet for social events, recreation, information exchange and other purposes. The services provided by the center include the internet, computer and language courses, in addition to vocational training and life skill courses focusing on PSS activities for reintegration and rehabilitation between IDPs, refugee and host community.

-By 17th December 2017, 1st cycle of program activities has been launched and Activities
Implemented in KEDO center:
Regular intensive sessions (twice a week and 8 weeks in total) Life skills and Entalik
Sessions Irregular sessions: including info sessions for parents and youth and drop in sessions for youth (weekly and bi-weekly).

-Total number of beneficiaries 638 until end of February  had engaged in the activities from different target groups refugee, IDP and host community for psychosocial support, catch up training, languages, sports activities for social cohesion and, improving their skills, reintegration.
-Students participated in catch up and study support (English -Math - Physics chemistry- Kurdish and Science) in KEDO. The aim of these activities is to improve the skills and performance of the children in schools.
Livelihood:
-26/12/2017 Baseline Survey Training: livelihood coaches participated in Baseline survey  training, witch is an important part of any M&E process. It is a starting point for a project: One important, and recommended, way of starting a project is to carry out a baseline study. Through its results, a baseline serves as a benchmark for all future activities, where we can refer to for the purposes of making project management decision.
•          Youth Led Market Assessment: livelihood coaches participated in YLMA in order to more knowledge about market analysis and quantitative and qualitative assessment of a market. It looks into the size of the market both in volume and in value, the various customer segments and buying patterns, the competition, and the economic environment in terms of barriers to entry and regulation. Innovate’s approach originates in the conviction that employment programming for youth and adolescents is most effective when interventions are market-driven, and vocational training is layered with interventions such as promoting entrepreneurship, providing mentoring and fostering transferable skills.   21/1/2019

-during the FGDs we are trying to generate the maximum amount of discussion and opinions within a given time period. Focus Group Discussions important to determining and addressing needs, or "gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or "wants", and how they get benefit from our activates 
-  every  FGD the coaches start by  inform the participant  that there are no right or wrong answers in this discussion. We are interested in knowing what each of you think, so please feel free to be frank and to share your point of view, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with what you hear. It is very important that we hear all your opinions.
-  24/1/2018 more than 120 youths participated in the FGDs form deferent communities (Ref, IDP and HC)

·  16/1/2018 Youth Led Market Assessment  / LLH Coaches – Volunteer

·   29/1/2018  Business Management and Life Skills

·   14/2/2018 Protection Training PSS - LLH Coaches