The Ajira Kwa Vijana project has today launched an online recruitment platform called Ajira, Taarifa na Mafunzo (ATM) to assist young people in the blue sector with employment services in Tanzania. Apart from sharing employment adverts to potential employees, ATM offers various soft skills training to equip young people with skills needed in the labour market, assisting them with CV preparation and connecting them to employers. In addition, ATM supports linkage offices in Technical Education and Vocation Training in connecting their students to potential employers through direct access to the platform.
The Ajira, Taarifa na Mafunzo (ATM) was launched during a Career fair which was hosted by the Forum for International Cooperation (FIC) which is a one of the key activities of the Ajira Kwa Vijana project under the Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D). The program is supported by the Prime Minister Office of Labour, Youth, Employment and Persons with Disability (PMO-LYED). It is implemented in Tanzania by GIZ and jointly financed by BMZ, the European Union (EU), Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
Speaking in Dar es Salaam over the weekend after launching the Ajira, Taarifa na Mafunzo (ATM) platform, Forum for International Cooperation (FIC) Program Manager Erustus Oukoo said, ‘Establishing Job matching platforms and linkages to private sectors is one of the significant objectives that the project focuses on achieving. That is why the Forum for International Cooperation (FIC), through the Ajira Kwa Vijana project, organizes a career fair to link young people from the hospitality and manufacturing sectors with employers’.
Oukoo said that for the last 18 months, many young people under the project from the blue sector have received technical and career development support through scholarships and soft skills training. The project has also given them an infrequent opportunity to meet and learn from employers directly through career fairs that bring stakeholders from the hospitality sector together.
He said that as for now, the ATM platform has partners who have been taking part throughout the program. He named such partners as Masiwani Training and Rehabilitation Centre, Yombo Training and Rehabilitation Centre, National College of Tourism and VETA- Kipawa, are connected to the platform. We have potential employers who have so far enrolled on the platform making it more interesting for the candidates as they get to apply for opportunities from large-scale employers.
Commenting on the Ajira kwa Vijana program, Awadh Milasi- Project Manager GIZ and who are funding the project said that the project was launched in April last year and will come to end June this year.
‘The Ajira kwa Vijana Project aim was to strength the institutional and technical capacities of Tanzanian TVET institutions in Dar Es Salaam, Tanga and Dodoma through training of instructors, curriculum development and review, establishing job matching platforms and linkages to the private sector, resource mobilization, branding and marketing of institutions to attract more students’ said Milasi.
Milasi added that the project has also been providing training courses, employment services and enterprise development support to 1000 socially and economically disadvantaged youth or forced to drop out of formal education.
A facilitator addressing youth during a Career fair which was hosted by the Forum for International Cooperation (FIC) through the Ajira Kwa Vijana project under the Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D). The Ajira Kwa Vijana project has launched an online recruitment platform called Ajira, Taarifa na Mafunzo (ATM) to assist young people in the blue sector with employment services in Tanzania.
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