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Publisher/s: | International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Ministry of Education Department of Vocational Education and Training |
Published: | 2001 in Bonn, Germany |
ULC: | UNEVOC Library Catalogue ID 4205 |
At UNESCO’s Second International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education, which was held in the
Republic of Korea in 1999, participants had adopted a range of recommendations concerning the development and
improvement of technical and vocational education and training in Member States.
While these recommendations received unanimous support, participants expressed the need to make them more
operational and to promote their implementation, particularly in developing countries.
To this end, the Department of Vocational Education and Training of the Ministry of Education of Botswana and
UNESCO’s International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNESCO-UNEVOC) in
Bonn jointly elaborated an initiative entitled “Learning for Life, Work and the Future: Stimulating Reform in
Southern Africa through Subregional Co-operation”. This initiative was launched at a workshop held in
Gaborone, Botswana, in December 2000.
The workshop addressed a number of challenges which are common to the countries in Southern Africa, and
developed them into individual follow-up project proposals. This bottom-up approach, with an intense inclusion
of experts and decision-makers from the region from the outset of the project, ensured that the needs of the
countries are closely met, and that the approach will be instrumental in achieving sustainability of project results.
The immediate presentation of the workshop results to representatives o donor agencies added another dimension
to that approach.
The International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNESCO-UNEVOC) is currently
examining the launching of similar initiatives in other regions.