US $30m ADB project for skill development
The project, which is estimated to cost US $30 million is expected to provide skills necessary for foreign employment to youths, in ten target districts.
The government with the support from the ADB has proposed the Skills for Employment Project to achieve the goal of poverty reduction through the improvement of the earning potential of the youth, Minister of Education and Sports Hari Bahadur Basnet said.
Speaking at the inaugural of the workshop, Minister Basnet said that the government is giving high priority on developing and strengthening the technical education and vocational training to reduce poverty.
"On government’s request, the ADB has fielded its technical team to design the project," he said.
Leahc Gutierrez, a human development economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, who was in Kathmandu to attend the workshop told The Sunday Post that the project would be finalised by 2004 and implemented in 2005.
The skill development training that range from one-week training to three-year training, would be provided by the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT).
UNESCO representative to Nepal Koto Kanno said that youth and employment are interrelated and the unemployment situation has the real chance of adding to the social instability.
Skill development effort in Nepal is fragmented. There are several donor agencies and NGOs working for the skill development but are not contributing for the common purpose, said Dr T N Sharma, acting member secretary at the (CTEVT).
"Opportunities for employment in future are scarce. The country has very limited provisions for skill development," Sharma added.
Dr Suresh Raj Sharma, vice chancellor at the Kathmandu University said degree holders, mostly from the privileged community had the opportunity to grab major jobs in the employment market so far but said there would be a major shift in this traditional approach now onwards.
Presenting paper on ‘sub-sector analysis of the technical education and vocational training’, Paul Brady, a technical expert at the workshop said best learning takes place in jobs and not in the institutions.
He informed that almost 300,000 young people enter the labour market every year of which barely 50,000 get jobs.Posted on: 2003-11-22 09:55
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