FROM PROGRAMME TO PATHWAY

Demas Lukoye Kutosi

Program Manager

The most important question for a programme manager is not, “Did we conduct the activity?” It is, “What happens because we conducted it?”That is the lens through which SIYEP’s work should increasingly be understood.

A training session matters when the trainer applies the new knowledge, A scholarship committee matters when it helps a young woman access training, A competition matters when a participant improves her competence, A media story matters when it changes how society sees TVET and women’s skills, A partnership matters when it creates something that one organisation could not have achieved alone. The next stage is therefore about strengthening the pathway.

THE PROGRAMME MANAGER’S AGENDA

1. From enrolment to retention

Getting young women into training is the first step. Keeping them engaged matters just as much.

2. From training to competence

Learners need opportunities to practise, demonstrate and receive feedback.

3. From competence to markets

Skills must connect to employers, customers, entrepreneurship and productive opportunities.

4. From individual activities to institutional systems

TVET institutions must increasingly own and sustain the model.

5. From numbers to evidence

The programme must continue asking what changed and how we know.

The real measure of a skills programme is not how many people entered the classroom. It is what they are able to do afterwards.