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Learning for Community Empowerment Program (LCEP-2)

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Program

Education (Youth and Workforce Development)

Dates

January 2008 - January 2013

Partners

Greece (Hellenic Republic)
United Nations Habitat

The LCEP-2 project aims to improve the livelihoods of urban and rural populations through an integrated literacy and productive skills program. Participants (60 percent women) follow a 15-month course to develop literacy and acquire “soft skills” that prepare them for greater economic opportunity. The project promotes a sustainable process of lifelong learning and community economic empowerment. Adult learners begin with general literacy and numeracy education and in later sessions, are provided vocational, financial literacy, and business skill-building courses that tie in with the program’s community savings and investment groups. LCEP-2 works in 20 provinces across Afghanistan and has already enrolled more than 223,100 community members (60 percent female) in literacy and productive skills training. A recent evaluation documented the difficulty of developing viable economic activities without strong local businesses, and the revised project will focus on literacy and livelihood training, while relying more upon networking, apprenticeships with local tradespersons, and other community resources for micro/small-enterprise development.

LCEP-2 Video

LCEP Fact Sheet

Greek Assistance to Education and Water Supply Projects in Afghanistan

Announcements

Community Leaders Discuss Livelihood Opportunities

15 August 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan

From August 3-4, USAID’s Learning for Community Empowerment Program (LCEP-2) organized a two-day stocktaking workshop in Kabul. Sixty-five community leaders and village facilitators from ten...

Communities Bank on New Financial Institution

15 June 2010 | Panjsher Province, Afghanistan

A crowd of more than 80 gathered in Qalat Ruy Deh Village in Panjsher Province on June 9 to witness the grand opening of the...

Communities Rally to Continue Education Program

15 December 2009 | Eastern Afghanistan

USAID’s community-based Learning for Community Empowerment Program (LCEP-2) addresses the root causes of poverty and unemployment by integrating literacy education with economic empowerment training. Recently,...