On Tuesday, December 5, 2017. 9:30 AM ET, Making Cents International's Youth Economic Opportunities Network hosted an ApplyIt Webinar with the Youth Employment Funders Group (YEFG), Educate!, and the Rwanda Education Board to explore YEFG’s What Works in Soft Skills Development for Youth Employment report.

 

Discussant

  • Nancy Taggart, Senior Youth & Workforce Advisor, USAID

Speakers

  • Boris Bulayev, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Educate!
  • Antoine Mutsinzi, Acting Director of the Teacher Development and Training Unit of the Rwanda Education Board, Rwanda Ministry of Education
  • Donnalee Donaldson, Rwanda Country Director, Educate!

Topics covered during the webinar

  • How soft skills learning can be effectively integrated within formal education systems as a way to achieve larger-scale shifts in youth soft skills acquisition.
  • Challenges, ways to co-create skills development processes with teachers and key stakeholders, and best practices for bringing soft skills development into formal education.
  • Insights through two country-level case studies from Uganda and Rwanda that draw from Educate!’s experience in supporting the integration of soft skills training into Uganda and Rwanda’s national curriculum, with special emphasis on how to promote both the will and skills necessary to have reforms take root in an everyday classroom.

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