Pakistan: Support to the Prime Minister’s Programme for Vocational and Skills Training Using the TREE Methodology

Description

The proposed UNDP funded project, of support to the Prime Minister’s Programme, will be developed as a preparatory assistance phase to the Prime Minister’s skills development programme which is designed to provide employable skills and self-employment opportunities to 300,000 young women and men in Pakistan. It will provide technical advice and support to the government programmes and assist in developing the capacity to conduct rapid assessments of the capacity of training institutions to plan, design and implement short-cycle skills training programmes linked to identified economic opportunities (within the overall context of the TREE methodology). Following the assessments, technical support will be provided by the ILO to develop the capacity of project partner to plan, design and deliver short-course curricula, and develop quality measures for training provided including skills and training standards. The project will work closely with NRSP and other RSPs to assist in developing their capacity to implement the TREE methodology.

In the preparatory assistance phase, it is expected to focus on around 80 selected training institutions (approximately 40 public and 40 private). Under the PM’s programme, it is planned that these institutions will train around 25,000 students in the first batch. One output of the preparatory phase would be to develop a full project document to provide technical assistance for the longer-term output of 300,000 trained young people. This project is expected to contribute the UN’s overall assistance to Pakistan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, with particular focus on Goals 1, 2, 3 and 8. This strategy has been developed in the context of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda and Human Resources Development Recommendation (2004).