SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

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The Skills Development Project has three objectives: a) to develop and implement innovative industrial skills training schemes within private enterprises in three provinces (West Java, East Java, and North Sumatra); b) to support a special training program for unemployed university graduates; c) to strengthen policy making, research, planning and management capabilities of the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). The project will comprise two components: the Provincial Component and the Ministry of Manpower Component. Under the Provincial Component, the three provinces will establish a Provincial Training Fund (PTF) to implement four sub-components: a) establish 75 company group training units; b) develop individual company training services; c) support the training of job-seekers for identified vacancies; d) establish pilot programs to provide training and consultant services to small-scale manufacturing firms. MOM will: a) establish demonstration programs to develop young professional entrepreneurs for self-employment ; b) develop the local labor market information system; c) support staff development of the MOM to upgrade its capacity for management, research and policy development; d) assist South Sulawesi Province to prepare a PTF scheme for a possible follow-up, province-based skills development project.