VOCATIONAL TRAINING

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The project supports the Ministry of Labor's (MOL) long-term program to modernize and restructure the National Vocational Training System (NVTS). The project has three major components: (i) modernizing craftsman and apprenticeship training through re-equipping selected Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) and developing related training systems, extending trade coverage of the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme, and increasing women's access to training in modern sector trades by constructing new ITIs for women and adding women's wings to existing ITIs; (ii) expanding the Advanced Training Programs by introducing new trades at the advanced skill level in existing Regional Vocational Training Institutes (RVTIs) and the National Vocational Training Institue (NVTI), establishing new Advanced Vocational Training System Centers and extending existing centers, and developing one new High Technology Training Center; and (iii) improving NVTS management and planning at the Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGET) and corresponding State Directorates of Training through the strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation system, improvement of the testing process, reorientation of management / supervisory training, and strengthening of research on vocational training.