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Innovative Approaches to Workforce Training: ILO Prepares a Group of Trainers in Pakistan

Islamabad: The ILO, together with the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) is initiating for the first Competency Based Training and Assessment in Sindh.

Press release | 04 June 2012

ILO and STEVTA have organized training workshop where this latest techniques of Competency Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) will be taught to thirty skills trainers who come from technical-vocational education and training institutions across Pakistan. The workshop, which started on June 4 runs until 8 in Karachi.

According to Ms Frida Khan, National Project Coordinator, Gender Equality for Decent Employment (GE4DE)-ILO, the training aims to develop the capacity of technical trainers to design, deliver and asses CBTA training programmes. Following this workshop a series of pilot training programmes will be implanted to test and validate the methodology.

The five days training is focused on developing skills, knowledge and tools to prepare for the implementation on CBTA including learning and training methods and assessment tools. The competency based approach focuses on the learning outcome or the demonstration of skill, rather than the time spent in training, the trainer or the mode of delivery. This training workshop is the third in a series and discusses the methods to implement the new CBTA courses and curricula which were developed last year in a training workshop organized by the ILO’s GE4DE project. These industry-based courses have been developed by inviting leading industry experts from four economic sectors including Mussarat Misbah from Beauty and personal care, Shaiyanne Malik from High end Fashion Design, Babar Sheikh from Hospitality and Kamran Sandhu from Industrial garment manufacturing.

This ground-breaking series of training workshops, the first of their kind in Pakistan, was designed and delivered by the ILO’s Senior Training Policy Specialist from Geneva, Mr Trevor Riordan. “If training is to be truly effective in assisting the women and men of Pakistan to get decent jobs, then the training itself has to be based on the actual work performed in the workplace.” commented Mr Riordan while opening the training on the first day. Mr Riordan stressed that the ILO has introduced the competency based approach to training as part of an integrated strategy to help people get skills and jobs, and improve the economic and social development in Pakistan.

For further information please contact

Mr. M.Saifullah Chaudhry
Senior Programme Officer and Media Focal Person
ILO Islamabad Office Pakistan
Email

Tel.: +92 51 2276456-8

Tags: vocational training, capacity building, gender and development

Regions and countries covered: Pakistan

Unit responsible: ILO Country Office for Pakistan

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