The PROSPECTS partnership is a collaboration of the ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR, IFC and the World Bank, with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Netherlands, which aims to complement humanitarian assistance with a development approach focusing on the nexuses between education (including skills development and training), protection and employment. This is significant given the displacement trends with UNHCR projecting that Kenya is likely to continue to be amongst the top refugee hosting countries in Africa. Under the partnership, the ILO intends to increase the number of refugees and host communities with quality education and skills training and help transform the way governments and other stakeholders including the private sector, respond to forced displacement. The ILO interventions serve to make refugees and members of the host communities more attractive in the labour market, by ensuring that they have skills that are in demand, and that these skills are recognised and certified. By so doing, the project mitigates their plight during years of exile and best prepare them for their return through socio-economic inclusion and strengthen the resilience of host communities through inclusive socio-economic development.
Increased number of refugees and host community people with quality education and skills training
The ILO interventions under this pillar will serve to make refugees and members of the host communities more attractive in the labour market, by ensuring that they have skills that are in demand, and that these skills are certified- including market oriented digital skills. PROSPECTS partners have jointly formulated three short-term outcomes (marked as MACP STO in the ToC graph) that constitute preconditions to the achievement of the pillar outcome, and to which the ILO will contribute.
(i) MACP STO 1.1 Increased quality of education and vocational training for refugees and host communities
(ii) MACP STO 1.2 More refugees and host community children enrolled in formal and non-formal education, learning and skills programmes (outputs to achieve this outcome will be delivered only by UNICEF)
(ii) MACP STO 1.3 More people acquire additional occupational-relevant skills and skills recognition for transition to work petrified

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