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TVET Reform Project Newsletter – June 2011 1
TVET Reform Project
ILO Dhaka Office
Key Project Facts
Funding: EU/ ILO/ GOB
Project cost: $20 million over 5 years
Line Ministry: Ministry of Education (MOE)
Key counterparts: DTE, BMET and BTEB
Implementing agency: International Labour Organisation
(ILO), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Responsible National Project Director: Director-General, DTE
Phase Ⅰ: 2008-2009
Phase Ⅱ : 2010-2012
NEWS LETTER
Technical & Vocational Education & Training (TVET) Reform Project
Welcome to the first issue of the project newsletter from the project office. The TVET Reform Project is funded by the European Union (EU), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Bangladesh and aims to reduce poverty through reform to the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. These reforms will enable more people to acquire employable skills and thus generate income through wage-earning jobs or self-employment. The focus of this first issue is to remind you about the components of the project and what they do. We highlight the work of the project’s Component 5 with under-privileged groups. Our first story is about changes in the project office.
TVET Reform Project Changes in mid-2011
Personnel changes and launch of programme trials
are highlights in the TVET reform project for mid-2011.
Dr. A.J.A. Pratapsingh will be leaving at the beginning of
July after a year doing excellent work in Component 2
where he collaborated with the Standards and
Curriculum Development Committees (SCDCs) on
completing competency standards and course
accreditation documents. The latter will be presented
to the Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB)
by early July. His replacement is expected to be Dr.
Mark Wall who has previous experience in Vietnam,
Bangladesh and other countries. Ross Hatton will be
leaving Component 5 at the end of July but will be
returning in a supporting role for a few months in the
last quarter of the year. Dr. Srinivas Reddy Baki will be
replacing Ross and will be joining in mid-July. Srinivas comes from another ILO skills project in Indonesia.
The project is hosting an Australian Youth Ambassador (AYAD), Ms. Sarah Saltmarsh, bringing with her energy,
enthusiasm and experience in communications as well as vocational training. She joins in early July with Ms. Miji
Choi, an intern from South Korea, who is supporting component 5 since April this year.
The programme trials will be starting in July with the baking and graphic design courses at the National Hotel and
Tourism Training Institute and the Graphic Arts Institute respectively. Other new courses will be launched from
August to September. Procurement of equipment is in full swing and computers and kitchen equipment for the
above programmes have already been delivered and renovations are underway. Meanwhile the instructors for the
new courses are engaged in preparing teaching, learning and assessment materials as well as taking training to get
themselves ready for the launch at their institutions.
A quality assurance consultant will be working in July with the BTEB and principals of the programme trial
institutions on further explaining and implementing the quality assurance tools drafted earlier this year.
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Program Officer of Component 1, Mr. Haripada
Das introducing the session to participants
The dozens of course accreditation documents
developed will be signed off by the Industry
Skills Councils and handed over to the BTEB
during June/July 2011.
Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, MP, Honorable
Minister of Education listening to TVET
manager and instructor comments during
debriefing seminar
Arrangements will also be made with BTEB to accredit the institutions that will run the programme trials and to
organize training of quality auditors.
An advisory committee of industry and government persons will be meeting in June to advance preparations for
the proposed national skills survey, and development of the TVET database. Committee members come from both
government and private sector circles but share a mutual interest in collecting and using labour market data to
better forecast the need for different types and levels of skills development programmes.
TVET Reform Project – Five Components
Component 1 focuses on the national TVET policies, legal and regulatory environment and organisational and management structure of the system with the purpose to strengthen governance, management and operational capacity; improve coordination and promote decentralization in the TVET system and institutions.
Recent Activity In cooperation with the UNESCO, the TVET Project is
conducting a series of capacity building workshops for senior government
and non-government stakeholders in TVET. This programme will give the
participants the skills to collect data, analyse it, and write policy that
addresses the identified skills demands and supply situation in Bangladesh.
Shown here is a technical session during workshop #2, held at Comilla
BARD 19-23 April 2011.
Component 2 focuses on
responsiveness of TVET institutions to enable those to flexibly meet the market needs and the needs of the
poorer and disadvantaged groups. The following results are part of this component: New National Qualifications Framework; revised skills standards for occupations in selected economic sectors; new courses and curricula based on the skills standards for selected economic sectors; enhanced
quality-assurance mechanism in TVET.
Component 3’s major focus is capacity building for managers and instructors in TVET institutions.
Recent Activity TVET Project organized a fellowship for instructors to the Philippines where among other activities, they observed local instructors delivering competency based training and learned about external assessment practices. During the 2nd fellowship, a group of TVET managers as well as senior officials from BTEB, BMET and MOED also visited the Philippines and were treated to briefings at TESDA, the ILO country office, the Colombo Plan Staff College and visits to TVET institutions. Many lessons were learned during these fellowships and to draw out and share these lessons, the project organized a debriefing seminar on June 9, 2011. The occasion was graced by the presence of the Minister and Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Labour, and the Director of the ILO Country Office. The welcome statement was made by the Director-General, Directorate of Technical Education. After the morning debriefing programme, the fellowship participants stayed back and
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COEL Launch June, 2011- Chie guests, Prof.Md.Abul Kashem, National Project
Director, TVET Reform Project, and Chairman, BTEB and acting DG, DTE
Key Activities of Component 5
Community-Based Training (CBT) mainstreamed into
TVET
Increased access of working children to TVET
Informal apprenticeships improved and supported
System for recognition of prior learning (RPL)
developed
TVET extended to people with low education levels
Enhanced capacity of key agencies (DTE, BTEB, BMET)
to support skills development for under-privileged
groups
Access of females to TVET and employment increased
Access of people with disabilities (PWD’s) to TVET and
employment improved
developed recommendations based on their learning from the fellowship. These recommendations will be collated and shared with the relevant authorities so that the TVET reform agenda can be advanced.
Component 4 is responsible for “Workplace Learning & Productivity” aiming at improved skills development resulting in enhanced productivity and competitiveness in key growth and export-oriented industries in the formal industrial sectors.
Recent Activity Centre of Excellence for Leather
(COEL) has launched an Apprenticeship Programme on
Tuesday, 7th June, 2011 at 10:00am at Palli Biddut,
Shafipur, Kaliakoir Gazipur. COEL registered as a non-
profit organisation in January 2010, and operates as a
one stop shop for the leather industry offering a variety
of services with core focus on skills development of the workforce, while building its own capacity through
international accreditation. The aforementioned apprenticeship programme is supported by TVET Reform Project,
ILO (funded by EC-GOB-ILO) and Poverty Reduction by Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprises (PRICE) is
supported by USAID.
Component 5 focuses on working to integrate
those who do not have access to the training so as to
generate income and enhance their living standard. To
reduce poverty and mitigate the limitations of inadequate
school education, Bangladesh Government recognizes
that more citizens need to have access to formal skills
training & improved informal on the job training to
develop skills to increase their employability.
Who are the Under-Privileged?
The group includes the working children, the rural population (less developed areas), and youth with low literacy levels, women, and PWDs. Most do not have access to the publicly-funded TVET.
TVET Access to PWD’s for RMG
This pilot apprenticeship will be the first initiative for integrating PWD’s into mainstream training with newly updated competency based training developed from industry input. The pilot apprenticeships for other groups are also planned in the near future.
TVET Access to Working Children
Component 5 is working with UIE (Urban Informal
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Economy) project and UNICEF to improve the working condition for children who are exposed to work in hazardous working environments. Both projects are involved with removing the children from the worst forms of child labour, training them in a life skills and education programmes followed by trade skills training at specially developed Vocational Training Centres (VTC) throughout Dhaka & Chittagong.
Recent Activities
1. CRP & Interfab Pilot Apprenticeship Agreement with ILO
The ILO entered into contract with Centre for the
Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) and Interfab
Shirt Manufacturing Ltd.(Interfab) to implement the
apprentice pilot training programme with newly
developed competency based course for Ready-Made
Garment (RMG) Sewing Machine Operators, which will
integrate young women with disabilities into mainstream
training. The apprenticeship pilot has been developed by
component 5 with contribution of the CRP, Interfab Shirt
Manufacturing Limited of Viyellatex group.
CRP is a specialist agency with many years experience
in the treatment, care and training for PWDs, currently
running courses in conjunction with Marks & Spencer
(M&S). CRP will conduct the new training to prepare the
young women with disabilities for employment. Dr. Valerie
Taylor, the founder of CRP said “there is high demand for
the graduates with disabilities from this course as industry
say PWD’s are usually more productive, more reliable and
less likely to migrate.
TVET Project is happy to be associated with Interfab as
it is one of the leading RMG industries in Bangladesh and
promotes employment of PWD’s. Under this pilot training
apprenticeship, 12 young women (6 with disabilities) will
be accommodated and trained at CRP at Ganakbari over a
4 month period and will then be employed in the factory of
the Interfab at Tongi. There they will undergo on-the-job
training for an additional 8 months with guidance of the factory supervisors. This training will follow a Competency
Skills Log Book to document skills and acquired competencies resulting multi skilled workers trained in all facets of
shirt manufacturing and meeting demands of modern RMG export industry. This training also includes training on
specialist attachments & guides that are used in modern RMG factories.
CRP signing the agreement at ILO Office, April 2011
From Left: Mr. Harunur Rashid (PO, TVET(5), ILO), Dr.Valerie A. Taylor
(CRP Founder), Mr. Gagan Rajbhandari (Deputy Director, ILO), Mr. Ross
Hatton (Int’l advisor, TVET (5), ILO)
Ab
Interfab signing the agreement at Tongi, May 2011
Mr. Andre Bogui(Director, ILO office) & Mr. Ahasan Kabir Khan(Managing Director, Interfab)
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At Mirhazirbag VTC
2. Visits to VTC’s for Children
Component 5 team visited two VTCs
during April and May run by DAM & UIE
project as well as Technical School &
College (TSC) at Gazipur run by
Directorate of Technical Education (DTE).
Component 5 provides technical
assistance to the ILO UIE project in
conducting training at DAM VTCs. This
training provides opportunities for the
working children to obtain the skills to get
decent jobs that really improve their
standard of living. Without this
opportunity, they are destined to a life of
poverty.
3. CHT Trip for Indigenous Women
Component 5 team visited Chittagong Hill
Tracks (CHT), during 9-13 May, including
visits to Technical Training Centre (TTC) in
Rangamati, the Maonoghar (a local NGO)
Training centre, Rangamati. The team also
visited women from remote villages that
have small weaving businesses.
During the visit, Component 5 team
advisor identified that these women are very
skilful in weaving for making traditional
fabrics, but required additional skills like
sewing, pattern making and marketing
strategies. This would enable them to
produce a wider range of products and to a
wider market and increase their income.
This new scoping mission is part of the upcoming pilot for the Pre Voc 2 course to increase the skills and
livelihoods through self or group employment at their villages.
Student of Maonoghar VTC in Rangamati Hill District,
learning pit loom weaving skills
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Conservative estimation of Disability rate in
Bangladesh is about 10% among total population,
which approximates to over 16 million people!
Disability and poverty are closely linked. In developing countries, disabled persons are accounted for 15-20% of
the poor according to the World Bank estimation and ADB recognized the approximately 800 million people (25%)
of the Asia-Pacific region’s population are impacted by disability in their families. Poverty likely to cause more
people to become the disabled because of the possibility of exposure to poor nutrition, dangerous working and
living conditions, limited access to healthcare, poor hygiene and sanitation, inadequate information about causes of
impairment, war, conflict, and natural disasters,
of which the most cases could be preventable.
The environment in Bangladesh is difficult to
support the wellbeing, growth and development
of PWDs. The exclusion towards disabilities in
Bangladesh costs approximately as high at 18%
compared other countries. It is literally costing
the country billions.
The Bangladesh Disabled Welfare Act-2001,
called for action to improve opportunities for
PWDs through increasing their access and
participation in skills development programmes
at ILO Dhaka office, recognizing and concerning
the lack of implementation of domestic laws and
polices despite the fact their regime of
commitment.
The main goal of ILO is to achieve full and
productive employment and decent work for all,
including PWD’s. As a part of the ILO mandate, the
ILO’s Disability Programme promotes equality of
opportunity and treatment for PWD’s in vocational
rehabilitation, training and employment, under the ILO Convention No. 159 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation of
Employment of Disabled persons, 1983, and the ILO Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace adopted in
2001. Also it has been given renewed impetus following the entry into force of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in May 2008.
With growing recent disability movement and strengthened rights-based approach, the ILO has begun a transition
toward the gradual inclusion of disability into its knowledge development, advocacy, and technical cooperation activities.
Realized by employers’ needs, the ILO has developed ‘ILO Global business and Disability Network’, a global network of
multinational companies, existing employers and business networks on disability, along with representatives of disabled
persons’ organisations by having companies integrate disability into the workplace and their strategic business plans.
The network is a joint activity of the Employers’ Bureau and the Disability Team in the Skills and Employability
Department, operating out of the ILO headquarters office in Geneva.
If you have further information on ILO & Disabilities, Please contact to ILO Disability Hotline +41 022 -799 6192 or
Prime Minister urged private sectors to create
more jobs to PWDs
Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has called upon private
entrepreneurs to be committed and helpful towards all physically and
mentally challenged people and children. She emphasized to employ them and
create jobs for them, giving more opportunities on the 4th International
Autism Awareness Day and the 13th National Day of Persons with Disability at
Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
“Please don’t neglect the persons with disabilities
and autistic children. It is the responsibility of the
state and every person of the society to ensure all
facilities for the physically challenged and autistic
people and children.”By Sheikh Hasina, PM of
Bangladesh
Source:
http://www.daily-
sun.com/?view=details&type=daily_sun_news&pub_no=176&cat_id=1&me
nu_id=10&news_type_id=1&news_id=36534&archiev=yes&arch_date=03-
04-2011
http://bdnews24.com
Disabilities and Bangladesh
ILO and PWD’s
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Kamol Chandra was born in a small village of Norshindi district. His father is a farmer and mother is a housewife. He has two brothers and a sister. He could study in a school with his brothers. Kamol was in class seven. While his father being a farmer has a very limited income, he could not afford to continue to bear the cost of the education. This forced Kamol to stop study.
Because of the pressure of poverty, his father sent him to his Uncle’s house in Dhaka, where he started to work in a shoe factory. The working condition was really bad. Kamol worked 12 to 14 hours every day, six and half days a week. He got Tk1500 per month only. The working environment was
unhealthy and unhygienic with dusts. There were no safety devices even without masks. However, there was no option to him but working.
Nonetheless, Kamol kept on dreaming that he would be a successful man in life so that he can reduce the poverty for his family, although he had no idea how to do. Meanwhile, the skill development training programme of UIE project identified young workers in a hazardous workplace. The Employment Support Officer provided this information to Kamol and encouraged him to enrol in VTC. He enrolled in Khilgaon VTC and completed his course on motorcycle service mechanics in due time.
Kamol is now 19 years old, working with Walton motorcycle service workshop at Khilgoan branch. He gets Tk
5000 as remuneration, plus Tk 85 per day more for breakfast, lunch and conveyance purpose. The working hours
are 8 hours a day with 30 minutes lunch break and six days in a week.
Kamol dreams of running a business for his own of motorcycle service mechanics workshop with showroom in his
area (Norsghindi) or in Dhaka city.
‘’I am very happy to work in this service centre within a team, and now at least I am able to buy a good quality T-shirt for
me and help much better my family members.”
By Kamol Chandra Moni
Kamol Chandra Moni working in a very informal small shoe factory but he is currently in
Walton motorcycle servicing workshop
A Successful Story …
…A Graduate Student from VTC under ILO UIE Project,
Technical Assistance with Component 5, TVET Reform
Project
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Copyright © International Labour Organization 2011
The responsibility for opinions expressed in signed articles, studies and other contributions rests solely with their authors, and publication does not constitute an endorsement by the International Labour
Office of the opinions expressed in them.
The government of Bangladesh is
promoting a more responsive TVET system through
the following three major projects:
the TVET Reform Project (2008-2012)
utilising European Union (EU) grant funds
and involving contributions from the ILO
and Government of Bangladesh (GOB);
the Skills Development Project (2009-
2013) utilising a loan from the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) and grant funds
from SDC; and
the Skills Training Enhancement
Project(2010-2014) utilising a loan from
the World Bank.
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jointly shape policies and programmes
promoting Decent Work for all. This unique
arrangement gives the ILO an edge in
incorporating 'real world' knowledge about
employment and work.
TVET Reform Project
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