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Morocco hosts workshop on private-public partnerships and vocational training

Morocco hosts workshop on private-public partnerships and vocational training


Source : UNIDO Website

16-Dec-2016

More than 70 representatives of the private and public sectors, donor agencies and vocational training centres met in Casablanca, Morocco, this week for the fourth edition of the Learning and Knowledge Development Facility’s (LKDF) Annual Partners Learning Workshop.
Organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the four-day event aimed to promote the role of sustainable public-private partnerships for industrial skills development, and to share best practices and lessons learnt from these partnerships across the globe, especially in developing countries.
“Events like this are always an eye-opener for me”, said R.V. Padmanabhan, Chief Technical Advisor of ZAMITA and JHEOS, two public-private development partnership projects based in Zambia and Liberia respectively. “This is the best platform to discover new ideas and practices, adapt them to our contexts, and better face our challenges.”
The participant engaged in a variety of activities and met counterparts from the public, private and development sectors interested in enhancing such partnerships. To view a concrete example of what these partnerships can accomplish, the programme included a visit to AGEVEC, a training academy specializing in heavy machinery maintenance and targeting youth in Morocco, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire.
The LKDF is a joint initiative between UNIDO and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) seeking to promote industrial skills development among young people in emerging economies. In particular, the Facility supports the establishment and upgrading of local industrial training academies to help meet the labour market’s increasing demand for skilled employees.
“The LKDF makes the impossible possible,” said Teppo Kettula, CEO of Aika Group, a partner of the SADC Forest project, a training programme in sustainable forest management being implemented in South Africa.
Under the LKDF initiative, partnerships have been notably formed with public bodies and private sector companies for the creation of vocational training centres specialized in heavy machinery maintenance in Ethiopia, Iraq, Liberia, Morocco, and Zambia.