B razil Africa Institute (IBRAF), as facilitator of rapprochement between Brazil and Africa continent - focusing its actions in promoting economic and social development and combating poverty launches the Youth Technical Training Program - YTTP.
Besides unemployment, hunger and poverty are major challenges especially in under developing countries and agricultural and rural communities are highly vulnerable to external shocks. IBRAF recognizes the need to eradicate poverty and famine in our generation, and it points out the importance of having an integrated agricultural and rural development goal in the sustainable development agenda.
The YTTP uses an array of professional development schemes to meet diverse needs of African countries through utilizing Brazil's technology, skills and knowledge. The program focus in the following areas: agriculture and rural development, health, IT, education, information and communication, infrastructure and creative industry.
Objectives
To bridge the gap of skills by developing and transforming the minds of young people for positive change
To combat poverty, and more fundamentally, to ensure the sustainable development of the continent
To train young African professionals in research and technology transfer, contributing to local capacity development
To support young unemployment African graduate to go into business as a well-paying career and in the process, create wealth and subsidiary employment
HOW IT WORKS
1Call
2Curriculum
3Interview
Brazil Africa Institute will be responsible for the following
PARTICIPANTS
- Young Africans between 18 and 35 years old
- Gender equality conditions will be prioritized
- The participants from non-Portuguese-speaking countries may start their language learning at home and benefit from an extra month of conversation classes in Brazil, prior to the beginning of the program
- The program will last up to three months
2019
The third edition of YTTP was held between November 4th and 8th of November, as a result of the partnership between IBRAF and Embrapa Cassava and Fruit, receiving support from the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
A total of 26 young people from Ghana, Malawi, and Nigeria were received at the Embrapa headquarters in Cruz das Almas, Bahia, for theoretical and practical training sessions in the area of agriculture, focusing on the Post-Harvest Processing of Cassava. The five days of activities began with a welcoming remark by the President of IBRAF, which was followed by classes, practices and field visits on the premises of the Brazilian company. The participants had contact with rural development projects, agricultural laboratories and processing houses, learning about the main varieties of cassava seeds, the advances in genetic modifications, the identification and treatment of diseases, and the applications, in post-cultivation, of products for making healthy foods with potential for commercialization.
2018
The second group of the program took place from November 19th to 24th, 2018. At that time, seven young African participated at the Cassava Post-Harvest and Processing Workshop in Brazil. Intensive training was done at the installations of Embrapa Cassava and Fruit Growing Center in Cruz das Almas, Bahia. Four women and four men were selected to abide by gender equality, 1 participant from Nigeria, 3 participants from Cameroon, 3 participants from Ghana, and one from the Ivory Coast.
Funded by the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the group traveled to Salvador the following two days, where they participated at the 6th Brazil Africa Forum. There, they could all share their contacts, get new knowledge and even follow the session organized by FIDA that discussed the Portal of Rural Solutions, a web-based platform for promoting the acceptance of agricultural innovations and solutions and rural development in different contexts and diversified development contexts.
2017
The first class of YTTP was dedicated on agriculture, following the AfDB's strategy "Feeding Africa", which seeks the transformation of agriculture in Africa. For this first step, we selected 28 young people between 18 and 35 years from 16 countries, considering the equalization of gender and geographical distribution of participants.
The participants received training on the production chain of cassava in Cruz das Almas, Bahia, in the premises of Embrapa Cassava & Fruits, partner of Brazil Africa Institute in the first edition of the program. The training was held in 2017, from October 9 to November 21, and aimed to spread the knowledge of the key technologies of culture, allowing an increase in production and income of farmers.
Soil conservation, nutrition, integrated pest and disease management, production systems, pest identification in the field are some of the topics covered in the program of studies, which was have a strong practical component, with several technical visits included in the program.
