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Ensure that Radio Learning Club members and community volunteers observe both life skills and technical training sessions for a better understanding of Rural Entrepreneurship and Leadership.

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Incorporate plays and performances as regular parts of community awareness programs.

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Close cooperation and coordination with chiefs and headmen._x000D_

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Town halls as an excellent launch-pad for hub activities and to enable the project to demonstrate buy-in from chiefs and headmen._x000D_

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An effective process to select facilitators, supported by strong cooperative relationships with Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and District Education Board Secretariat.

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Technical curriculum that emphasizes practical training and entrepreneurship and encourages teamwork.

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Recruitment of experienced facilitators who are familiar with interactive teaching methods and skilled in developing bonds with their low-literacy students, enabling them to understand and meet individual needs.

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Satellite hubs for participants coming from distances of 5 kilometers or more, providing flexibility for participant mothers (girls and women), many of whom bring their children to class, as well as promote more regular attendance and increase completion rates.

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Legal and regulatory framework reforms are usually a protracted process lasting several political cycles. According to several stakeholders interviewed, the Bill of Law for the Regulation of Dual Mode VocationalTechnical Education in Costa Rica has been under discussion for more than ten years. A four-year project needs to be designed and implemented under existing laws and regulations. The dialogue process and the building of trust between stakeholders and decision-makers to support and implement Workplace-Based Training (WBT), a new concept in Costa Rica, is a slow process. It will probably require more than four years, the life of the Project, to consolidate these alliances. In Limón and San José, there have been complications which are inherent to the nature of establishing alliances and a functional link between YPCR and its partners. For example, according to business and labor union stakeholders, establishing alliances between the private sector and labor to facilitate the WBT placement of vulnerable youth is a new experience in Costa Rica and has not been an easy task. Union members believe businesses are only looking out for their own interests, while businesses state that worker demands for higher wages and other benefits might make their business less competitive. The two parties usually see each other as adversaries, not partners. It is a protracted dialogue and there is resistance on both sides. Changes to a more inclusive model of youth insertion into the labor market also requires results and evidence that the WBT model is successful in incorporating vulnerable youth into employment.

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When working in a partnership with the government, it is advisable to align the project with the planning cycle for the government, which is often five years. Integrating project objectives into the main government development blueprints increases the chances of project activities being incorporated into governments’ work plans. The BUSY project commenced after county governments had prepared their county integrated development plans (CIDPs); according to county government staff, this partly slowed the integration of project activities into the county government work plans.