Vocational Training Program

AYODA members funded and established the Vocational training program in June, 2004, which provides different skills training to youth.

The main objectives of this program are to empower the youth with skills to get employment opportunities and to improve the socio-economic status of low in-come returnee and IDPs families in Awdal region.

VTP consists three pillars those are literacy and numeracy, Life skills & Marketable skills. Such as office management/Computer, Ectricity, Electronic, Masonry with Cable stone, Audio-video,Plumping, Carpentry, Alluminium metal work, Comercial painting, Tailoring & Ty-Die, Coefecianery, Hospitality and Fishing.

Since the establishment of this program over 1750 male and females have been trained in above different marketable skills who most of them benefited provided skills opportunity, got jobs and become self relient and improved socio-economic status of their families.

Since the establishment of AYODA’s vocational skills training centre in 2006, AYODA received valuable assistances from the following partners. NRC, Care international, UN-HABITAT, UNIDO and United States African Development Foundation (USADF) under AYODA’s startegy plan is going to extend this progarm into other districts of Awdal region to respond hingh demand of drought and cylcone affected poor agro-pastoralist youth in the region as well as other regions of the country.

Mission

To promote sustainable development through community-based socio-economic empowerment targeting vulnerable youth, women, children, pastoralists, and people with disabilities while responding to environmental and climate change challenges in Somaliland.

Vision

A country where the youth, women, children, pastoralists, and people with disabilities respond to the causes and effects of vulnerable and poverty.

AYODA Values

Transparency and accountability: AYODA believes in upholding transparency and accountability to all stakeholders (Donors, Beneficiaries, communities and Government).
Gender Equity: AYODA believes that all human beings have the right to basic needs. Therefore in its execution of its tasks it will ensure impartiality, fairness and equitable (justified) need-based resource allocation.
Integrity and respect: AYODA believes in upholding integrity and respect for local cultural diversity and norms during implementation of its tasks.
Community empowerment: AYODA believes in the empowerment of the community to ensure sustainability of the initiatives being promoted.
Participation; Participation is very important to share ideas and ways during the planning, implementation and M&E. It means all stakeholder participate the project activity, and mainly participation of beneficiaries.