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Bahrain's iGA trains ~80 unemployed young Bahrainis a year on live e-government projects; its first two cohorts produced 143 graduates, 295 professional certifications and about 100 hires into technical roles, with a third batch opened in 2025.
The Technical Development Programme (TTDP) is run by Bahrain's Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) with the Ministry of Labour, targeting Bahrainis aged 21-30 with technical degrees who are registered in the country's Unemployment Insurance System.
Rather than classroom-only instruction, participants are embedded at iGA for hands-on work on live digital government projects — including the MyGov citizen portal and the eKey 2.0 digital-identity service — with mentorship, task delegation, applied assessments and industry-recognised certifications, taking in roughly 80 Bahrainis per year.
Across its first two cohorts, 143 graduates contributed to more than 10 digital projects, collectively obtaining 295 professional certifications, and nearly 100 graduates went on to secure technical roles across public and private-sector employers. The programme won an HR Innovation Award.
iGA opened registration for a third batch in 2025, but the reported figures are self-published and corroborated only by independent media coverage of cohort launches, not by an external evaluation of longer-term employment or wage outcomes.
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