Mshikamano Youth Centre is the community based organization established in 2008 and registered in 2009. The group has 30 members among of them 14 are males and 16 are females aged 18- 32. The group since then has grown to become one of the most successful learning centres for youth to skill training. In February 2011 the group sent project proposal for the youth skilled training through your Institution and in March 2012 was one among the group successfully for the grant.

Mshikamano Youth Centre has been in a position of implementing the project titled “improving young men and women in skill training as stated in the term of the reference and memorandum of understanding between the Mshikamano team and Unhabitat Youth Fund. For the first phase the group managed to run four (4) activities in accordance with financial means accessed, planned work and budget outlined: The activities that planned and realized during the implementation period was to finished the skill training for the 25 youth and this was realized as follows:-

The first training was about entrepreneurship (Business skills) which was conducted in March 2012 for the 5 days and cost about four million, eight hundred and seventy-six thousand, six hundred and twenty-five (4, 876, 625 equivalent with USD 3251.08). Several topics related with business and entrepreneurship development was covered.

 The second activity was about Carpentry which was conducted in April 2012

for the 5 days and had the similar cost of the first activities which is four million, eight hundred and seventy-six thousand, six hundred and twenty-five (4, 876, 625 equivalent with USD 3251.08 ). The participants equipped and copied carpentry skills work. The areas covered were introduction part, how to make measurement, how to joint and fix the woods, demonstration of carpentry tools, denotations of tools major functions and how to utilize them. Both trainings were facilitated by Mr. Abdi Hamza Maalim and Mr. Ali Suleiman Faki. Mr. Abdi is Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Department here in Pemba and has specialized Cooperative Business Management, alternatively to Mr. Ali who is full learning technical teacher at Kengeja Technical Collage and specialist with key interest in Civil Engineering.

The methodologies used for the both training were highly participative ones that involve a wide variety of methods including: Case studies; live issues; demonstration and practice of techniques; group discussion; self- perception questionnaires; and personal review and action planning enabled the participants to be able to share skills and experience from both facilitators.

 The third activity was about procurement of carpentry materials (Raw materials). Here the group purchased several raw materials including timber woods, glass mirrors, nails and hardboards for practical works for the trained youth. This activity cost was about Two millions, one hundred and ninety two thousands, six hundred and forty (2, 192, 640 Equivalent with USD 1461.76)

 The final activity in this phase was about to support all Administrative Services for the office project Coordinators and organizers. In this activity the office had to provide all necessary Administrative matters for the Office including salary for project Coordinators, stationary, electricity bills, refreshments, telephones and Monitoring and evaluation services. The activity cost was about Two million and fifty four thousands, one hundred and ten (2,054, 110 Equivalent with USD 1369.4)

About fourteen million, two hundred and seventy four thousands, (14, 274,000) was deposited at Mshikamano Bank account from Unhabitat Youth Fund and out of this, fourteen million was spent (14,000,000) for this first installment and balance in Bank is about Two hundred seventy four thousands only (274, 000).

 For this short progressive summary for the project planned and realized activities, Mshikamano team during doing Monitoring and Evaluation notified that the project of improving young women and men in skill training has direct outcomes as most youth acquired knowledge, skills and better attitude change, through seminars and practical works. Some of the trained youth has designed several income generating activities to benefit themselves and their families and also have to able to mobilized other youth who had not received the training and who are social-economically affected to join for the project so that to draw the success story for entrepreneurship and business development and Carpentry skills.

Either, the project has shown the satisfaction in terms of positive impact and improvement as all 25 youth trained for the project have engaged with Mshikamano group doing practical in tailoring and carpentry works. Individual youth trained in this program has started to outset entrepreneurship activities including pottery making and selling to mobile traders, fruit juice canning, vegetable production, street corners small business etc. Nevertheless, Similar group interventions for the trained youth is well doing gradually as all youth imparted with practical skills and have started to make simple produce of furniture like chairs, stood, tables, fixing beds, and dressing tables, cutting curves, measuring and cutting clothes, designing and weaving etc.

During the implementation of this project, the group facing no critical challenges to undermine the program development in terms of technicality and resources, this is because some group members are qualified in skills work thus were able to supervise the practical training extra well. Also there was close relationship with project facilitators as in many time were close to group members for execution of the practical works making sure going on track. However, there was minor challenge of commodities inflation and this did not bring trouble the project implementation as the members were doing every possible to contributes and fill the gaps so that to make project action plan and budget happen.