<ul><li>Lead the planning, design, and rollout of inclusion, youth engagement and skills development interventions within the cluster in alignment with annual and quarter work plan and national program strategy.</li><li>Implement inclusive community outreach and mobilization strategies that ensure effective targeting, registration, and enrolment of RYW, Persons with Disabilities, returnees, and other marginalized youth into the program, and support their progression into enterprise formation and skill training.</li><li>Play lead role in identification of social, cultural, and systemic barriers for inclusion and develop context-specific strategies to access skill and other services.</li><li>Support the implementation of a comprehensive strategy of YSLA approach including targeting, group formation processes, and guidance on group lifecycle and sustainability.</li><li>Support woreda facilitators to Identify, recruit, and provide orientation to YSLA facilitators based on clear selection criteria, ensuring their active engagement and readiness to support group formation and facilitation activities.</li><li>Implement targeted inclusion interventions, including but not limited to facilitating access to assistive devices, reasonable accommodations, adapting training venues for accessibility, and coordinating tailored support services, to ensure full and meaningful participation of Persons with Disabilities in all program activities.</li><li>Oversee the implementation of tailored training packages (entrepreneurship, agribusiness, digital &amp; financial literacy, value chain trainings) adapted for RYW and persons with disabilities as per the approved cluster plan.</li><li>Ensuring the quality of trainings and training materials to be organized to various groups of project participants, service providers and other TOTs.</li><li>Identify, assess, engage and strengthen local skill service providers such as A/TVETs, youth centres, OSSCs, universities, private training providers, etc to co-develop contextualized manuals, integrate inclusive mechanisms (e.g. reasonable accommodation and facilities, mobility aids) and deliver gender-responsive, digital-integrated training.</li><li>Support flexible and innovative training delivery models (e.g., mobile training, community-based learning, digital advisory services) to increase accessibility.</li><li>Facilitate youth voice platforms (YAG, youth associations) to ensure active participation of youth in general and RYW and marginalized youth in particular in program planning, decision-making, and feedback processes at local and cluster levels.</li><li>Lead efforts to ensure youth are consulted and represented in local decision-making such as MSP platforms, planning, strategy designing, monitoring and evaluation process.</li><li>Lead efforts to embed inclusion mechanisms (e.g., assistive devices, childcare services, safe space) within training institutions to enhance participation for young mothers and persons with disabilities.</li><li>Work to embed digital literacy, digital advisory and learning tools, entrepreneurship, financial literacy trainings and mentorship into existing systems of woreda-level government offices, training centres (A/TVETs, youth centres, OSSCs), and community institutions to improve access for youth, especially RYW and Persons with Disabilities.</li><li>Strengthen and maintain productive relationship with local government offices, TVETs, private service providers, OSSCs, CBOs, and organizations working with persons with disabilities.</li><li>Collaborate with the MEAL team to develop tools and indicators to track participation, completion, and outcome of skills/ training interventions.</li><li>Conduct regular field visits and coaching sessions with zonal coordinator, woreda facilitators and skill service providers to monitor quality and inclusiveness of service delivery and provide timely feedback.</li><li>Capture lessons learned, document success stories, and contribute technical input to cluster-level progress reports, learning briefs, and annual work plans,</li><li>Engage in multi-stakeholder dialogues and represent the program in cluster-level forums, skills networks, and coordination platforms to align training services with market needs and youth aspirations.</li></ul>

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