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| Sunday, 1 September 2002 |
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Training the vocational trainers by Deepal Warnakulasuriya The Sri Lankan - German CEFE Program, a vocational training, self employment and career guidance counsellors institute, completed another training programme for 32 vocational training instructors from governmental, non-governmental and private sector organisations recently. The 21-day 'Training of Trainers Workshop on Entrepreneur Development' was held at the Kabool International Training Centre, Thulhiriya and focused on the staff of vocational training institutes. The project is aimed at raising the living standards and improving the future prospects of low income women and youth in the Central, North Western and Southern provinces. It also targeted increasing the access to self and wage employment opportunities among its target groups by strengthening partner organisations to provide them with innovative vocational training. The areas covered at the workshop included integrating Entrepreneur Development into vocational training programmes, conducting sensitisation programmes on Entrepreneur Development for all vocational trainees, guiding and advising selected trainees on setting up their own enterprises and preparing their own business plans and establishing training and production units. Trainers for the workshop had been selected from vocational training institutions in Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Kandy and Kurunegala districts attached to the Vocational Training Authority, National Apprentice and Industrial Training Authority, National Youth Services Council, Don Bosco Training Institute, Kandy and Sri Dharmaratne Vocational Training Centre, Matara. CEFE (Competency-based Economics through Formation of Enterprise) is a bilateral cooperation project under the Ministry of Policy Development and Plan Implementation. It commenced in 1995 under the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The workshop had been organised for the instructors and other officers of vocational training organisations to make an effective contribution towards the integration of entrepreneur development into the vocational training system in Sri Lanka. |
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