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The project's objectives are to address key sector issues by contributing to expanding vocational training capacity consistent with future needs for skilled manpower, improving coordination of vocational training, assessing policy options to assure the financial viability of such training, and helping to develop appropriate future training strategies and programs. The project would also help improve project selection and preparation in the public sector. To achieve these objectives, the project would comprise: a) construction, furnishing, and equipping of 22 new industrial vocational training centers throughout the country; b) equipping, furnishing and providing technical assistance for a new vocational Instructor Training Center; and c) providing five new mobile training units. It would further include: d) studies on sector policy issues; the development of new training programs; and e) technical assistance for development of a national training program in project selection and preparation.