Plan International will link up with Accenture to provide vocational training for about 3,500 underprivileged young people in Vietnam and India.
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The two-year project will bridge the gap between job supply and demand by matching disadvantaged young people with local opportunities through networks of employers, Plan International said on the sidelines of the ongoing 44th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Hanoi on May 3.
Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, is providing USD1.9 million in financial support and commercial expertise for the pioneering scheme, which will also reach out to young people in remote areas through virtual training modules.
Free skills and training programmes will target industries such as information technology, customer relations and business process outsourcing where local demand for jobs is high.
The partnership will build on Plan International’s ongoing educational project, REACH in Vietnam. Over 80 percent of the 5,400 disadvantaged young people trained through the programme are now in stable employment.
Accenture will assist the international charity to develop a business model to expand REACH to other developing countries.
The new partnership was launched in India this year and will roll out internationally, with Haiti and Tanzania among the next countries being considered.
