KSA 9: Business Development and Innovation.
Thrust 3: Business Development.
Programme 2: Capacity building and training programmes.
Title : Developing and piloting a model that shifts water graduates from bridging programmes and academia into employment.
ToR ID :1009881
Contact Person: Dr Chantal Ramcharan-Kotze– chantalrk@wrc.org.za
Closing Date : 29 October 2021
Brief description of ToR
This initiative will form part of the broader Water Graduate Employment Programme (Water GEP) Phase 2 which falls under the Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES) and will run for 9-12 months between November 2021 and September 2022. The Water GEP provides for graduate stipends and training (budgets). The overarching objective of the programme is to catalyse job creation in three inter-linked areas (work exposure placements, business incubation, and shifting graduates into employment) that supports sustainable economic development. This TOR specifically refers to Leg 3 that shifts graduates into employment. Water GEP Phase 1 has created a number of pathways for recently graduated youth including access to host institutions and potential employers. Current monitoring and evaluation suggests that 20-25% of supported graduates were performing within the expectations of the host organisations and have shown contributions in their place of work.
Scope: Overarching project management of the programme and to develop and pilot a model that shifts 100 top performing Water GEP phase 1 graduates into employment whilst building new knowledge on the transition of a post-COVID youth workforce for water security.
