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Workshop on Institution Capacity Building

UNESCO-UNEVOC participates in Friends of Democratic Pakistan workshop in Ankara, Turkey, 8-9 September 2011

Mr. Teeluck Bhuwanee, Head of UNEVOC Networks, participated in the Friends of Democratic Pakistan Workshop on Institution Capacity Building which was held on 8 and 9 September in Ankara, Turkey.

The Group of Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) is an open forum of donors which have expressed interest to extend assistance to Pakistan, in the context of various crises faced by the country. FoDP was initiated by the Government of Pakistan on 26 September 2008 in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly session, and invites and confirms states and institutions for membership.

The FoDP Institutional Capacity Building Workshop, with 7 working group meetings, was seen as an opportunity for the Government of Pakistan and the international community to review the ongoing programmes, to better strategise institutional linkages and partners, and to identify models of success, flagship institutions and institutions for future partnering. Seven key areas of engagement for Pakistan were proposed and each working group made presentations on the needs, challenges and opportunities for the following thematic areas: governance, education, security/law enforcement, skill development/vocational training, energy, and agriculture.

In the case of TVET, it was believed that the FoDP can assist Pakistan in its endeavours to meet the requirements of skilled human resource both nationally and internationally. It was hoped that FoDP missions can help identify partner institutions to link with Pakistani institutions in order to develop their capacity, enabling them to train the required number of people in the requisite vocations.

Additionally to the FoDP workshop, Mr. Teeluck Bhuwanee held a technical meeting with the executive director of the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC) on Pakistani institution and overseas institutional linkage building, and on Pakistan UNEVOC centres. Both NAVTEC and the Provincial Technical Education & Vocational Training Authorities (TEVTAs) are in need of strengthening their capacity in order to develop a standardized, dynamic and integrated technical education and vocational training system.

NAVTEC expressed the following interests:

  • To be assisted in developing its accreditation ability so that it could deliver internationally accepted credentials.
  • To have a certain number of trainers trained in different areas (curriculum development, competency based teaching, accreditation and certification etc) in order to create a national mass of trainers.
  • To develop linkages with international partners for Pakistan to gain credibility at international levels, especially with regards to training skilled labour required for Pakistanis to work in other countries.
Finally, in a meeting with Senator Sayeda Sughra Imam (Advisor, Policy Research Wing Prime Minister’s Secretariat) who is currently chairing the pre-Ankara workshop sub-group meetings, Mr. Bhuwanee explored the possibility to strengthen UNESCO-UNEVOC’s interventions in TVET in Pakistan.

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