A major seminar on social partnership in TVET took place in Almaty on 9 and 10 September 2002, organised jointly by the European Training Foundation (ETF), the UNESCO Office Almaty, the UNEVOC Centre in Kazakhstan and the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for TVET. Representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan were invited on behalf of the ETF, while the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre extended invitations to both Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, although only Tajikistan was able to send representatives to the meeting.

This seminar was then followed up by a workshop, organised by the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre, on 11 to 14 September 2002, which was attended by representatives of these countries. Participants at the workshop identified strengths and weaknesses that are common to their TVET systems. A presentation on the scope of activities of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre led to the extraction of three topics – in order of priority for the region – which could be addressed by the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre:

• Social Partnerships;
• Quality Assurance;
• Teacher Training and the Development of Teaching Materials.

Following the identification of these three priorities, Ms Shaizada Tasbulatova, team leader of the UNEVOC Centre and National Observatory of Kazakhstan, was invited to come to Bonn for further consultations with the Project Co-ordinator at the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre. During her stay in Bonn from 24 to 27 September 2002 there was an extensive exchange of views on these topics. Project proposals for each of the three priority topics were developed jointly. The European Training Foundation (ETF) subsequently implemented one of these projects.

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