StanChart, UCEP reintegrating pandemic unemployed

Standard Chartered and UCEP Bangladesh have jointly launched a reskilling and employment reintegration programme for economically vulnerable individuals losing livelihoods due to the pandemic's second wave. 

The programme will work with 500 beneficiaries from Rajshahi and Khulna, building on a previous one through which around 300 people from Rajshahi and Rangpur found employment, says a press release.

Beneficiaries will improve competencies through apprenticeship training on technical and vocational areas. The demand-driven training will ensure participants are able to meet current and future job market demands.

The beneficiaries can also appear for recognition by Bangladesh Technical Education Board on the National Technical & Vocational Qualification Framework level. They will then go through a job placement programme.

"This is in addition to the recently launched similar initiative that supports returnee migrant workers," said Naser Ezaz Bijoy, CEO of Standard Chartered Bangladesh.