Outcome CHL_D_5.1

Marginalized women and young women have access to, participate in and achieve quality learning, entrepreneurship and employment outcomes through second chance education.

Programme has reached out of migrant/refugee women, indigenous women and women from vulnerable backgrounds, by the alliances with Government, civil society and other UN agencies. Due to the economic effects of COVID-19, women with higher educational profiles were enrolled, as it came from a necessity derived from a particular crisis. In the context with strategic alliances with partners, such as ESO, Finning, CLARO, MPTF project and t hrough IP Fundación Emplea, to provide training in advanced skills and support with soft skills required for sucsessful employment. For year 2021, 4.216 women have enrolled in SCE Chile, against the pilot target of 4.000, with 3.445 women who have participate d in the Programme , and out of these 2.128 have successfully graduated . In terms of result, as per follow up survey: 15% have obtained an employment due to the Programme ; 37% are currently employed ; 25% have started a business due to the Programme; and 44% report to have continued their education.

Marginalized women and young women have access to, participate in and achieve quality learning, entrepreneurship and employment outcomes through second chance education.

SCE Chile kicked-off a new methodology based on evidence from the pilot phase, which considers two learning pathways in entrepreneurship and employability, accordingly to women profile (beginner/advanced). This methodology is carried forward at the national level by partner AIEP, a a well-recognized technical academic institution, whit the objective of developing a sustainable model for technical educations role in addressing womens economic empowerment for women in crisis, with socioeconomic vulnerability, migrants, and from indigenous backgrounds. Additionally, this institution is leveraging on its vast network of private and public actors to increase SCE participants opportunities through derivations to the entrepreneurship and employment environments and engaging its community of students and graduates as volunteers, which is part of the sustainability model of the programme. Moreover, SCE Chile has strengthened its humanitarian response initiative focused on Afghan refugee women, engaging new actors to provide comprehensive support and participating in an intersectoral roundtable for the socioeconomic inclusion of migrants. 16 Afghan women finished the Spanish course offered in collaboration with ECLAC and already started a job placement process with Fundacion Emplea. Additionally , SCE in collaboration with UNHCR, and support of the Afghan community, the legal clinic of the Diego Portales university and Fundacion Emplea, provided assistance to 22 Afghan women in their legal and labor issues. SCE is working with the Department of Social Action at the Ministry of Interior to coordinate referrals to socioeconomic support and the expansion of the model to other groups, starting with the inclusion of refugee women from Ukraine and Belarus in the employability initiative. Furthermore, SCE has become a member of the national level Social and Economic Inclusion Roundtable for Migrants, led by UNHCR, which comprises institutions from Government, Academia and Civil Society that support migrant population in Chile, which has led to reinforce SCE network for migrant women, as well as positioning the programme as a relevant stakeholder in migrant oriented national level plans. Following on the projects developed in SCE framework through partnerships, in the context of the digital skills training offered by SCE through an alliance with CLARO, 192 women from vulnerable background graduated in August . SCE is already organizing the call for 150 new participants with a focus on migrants and indigenous women for the next quarter courses. At the national level, implementing partner Fundacion Emplea started its intervention providing job placement support in masculinized sectors to a first group of 16 young women. Partner Veomas have already graduated the first group of women from Leadership School. In the context of strengthening partnership and advocacy for sustainability and scaling up, UN Women in Chile renewed the MOU with PRODEMU (Foundation for the Promotion and Development of Women) for a 4-year period. The program has also built up its partnerships at national and regional level, identifying spaces for collaboration and establishing referrals protocols with the Ministry of Interior, local governments, and civil society organisations. Specifically in the norther region of the country, alliances have been reinforced for programme implementation and linkages (SERNAMEG -National Service for women-, SECREDUC -Regional Agency of Education). More importantly, SCE has had an active participation in the migration roundtable led by IOM and UNHCR. In the southern region, alliances have been developed in Magallanes Region (SERNAMEG, INDAP- National Institute for Agricultural Development, Venezuelans in Patagonia and other civil society) to include more women from the most remote area of the country, while also advancing on the bond with current institutions and agencies for this new period of implementation (Ministry of Social Development, INJUV, La Frontera University, and civil society). In addition, SCE Chile led the public- private round table for “More Women in STEM education” co-developed with Pais Digital Foundation (funded and supported by TELCOs and Technology companies in Chile) facilitating the discussion between actors from civil society, universities and government to provide critical inputs and a gender approach for the public policies in STEM education. SCE Chile also presented in a national level Summit on Education in the context of 21 st century learning skills, positioning the relevance of gender in education within the new technologies. In addition, SCE Chile developed and disseminated a policy brief on Second Chance Education with Gender Perspective with good practices and recommendations, contributing and promoting further discussion of e-learning education and training for adult women in Chile.