EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (ABSTRACT)
Several factors were determined to influence Grenada’s ability to attract investments, successfully promote entrepreneurship and thereby create jobs.These factors included but was not limited to:
labour force skills, the level of crime and violence in the country and the overall competitiveness of the country in the doing business ranking. It must be mentioned that in the past Grenada was able to boast about having a low crime rate unfortunately however, over the past ten years there has been significant increases in crime with many crimes being committed by youths who have since dropped out of school.
This increased crime rate has deterred many investors and thereby negatively affects investments in the country. An analysis of the youth population in Grenada revealed that an increasing number of high school youths are dropping out of school. It was also observed that more boys than girls are dropping out of school.
This trend has negatively impacted the quality and skills set of the work force since youths who have dropped out of school to join the work force are less likely to possess the basic skills required by many investors. These youths are also not in a position to start their own business and become entrepreneurs. Consequently, these youths who have dropped out of school prematurely, increases the unemployment rate and very often they become involved in crime related activities.
The Grenada Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), the organization in Grenada responsible for employment generation through investment promotion and facilitation has joined forces with other youth related organizations such as the
Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture and the Ministry of Education and came up with a mentoring project to resolve the problems of youths dropping out of school and youth crime.
The general objective of the project was to create a project management plan for the creation of a mentoring program for high school youths in Grenada.
The specific objectives were to develop: a scope management plan which clearly captures and outline all the work to be completed by the project, a requirements management plan which will identify and document stakeholders’ main requirements for the program and that the project will have to keep in scope, a schedule management plan so as to ensure the timely completion of the project, a cost management plan which will help to control project cost, a human resource management plan to effectively manage the project team.
The methodologies used for this project were the descriptive as well as the analytical and historical research methods. Interviews and discussions were held with relevant stakeholders inorder to gain understanding and to develop a description of the problem. High school records, police records as well as other
records were then carefully studied and analyzed so as to properly evaluate the problem. Finally, historical records of how other countries/institutions dealt with similar problems, levels of success experienced and lessons learnt were examined.
This enabled the project team to come with group mentoring as the most viable solution to the problem. In the state of New York for example group mentoring was used to mentor high school students who were at risk of dropping out of school and engaging in illegal activities.
As a result of the mentoring many of the youths were able to regain focus, complete their schooling and go on to college or find jobs. In regards to recommendations, It was recommended that the project manger thoroughly research the problem so as to fully understand the problem and to beable to provide evidence in the defense of the solution selected.
The project manager should also develop the project management plan which should include subsidary plans such as the reqirements, schedule, cost and human resource management plans.
This plans will enable the project team to complete the project on time, within budget while at the same time meeting all other stakeholder requirements.
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Estudiante : KENT E. VICTOR
Fecha de Aprobaciòn : Mayo 2019
