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3.2 The private sector: Training priorities, resources and reorientation

Written by: International Labour Organization

Article Overview: Little is known about the extent to which private sector training provision benefits the poor and even less is known about recent trends.

3.2 The private sector: Training priorities, resources and reorientation

Little is known about the extent to which private sector training provision benefits the poor and even less is known about recent trends. In the past, NGOs have focused heavily on providing conventional training for the poor, but this may be changing for two main reasons. First, there is now a greater focus on income generating and advocacy projects that, invariably, have more limited formal training inputs. And secondly, in some countries (e.g. Zimbabwe and South Africa), large cuts in donor support to training NGOs are forcing them to commercialise a significant proportion of their training activities in order to survive. Given the inability of poor clienteles to pay for training services, they are, therefore, being increasingly excluded. Detailed research is needed in order to establish just how widespread this reorientation of NGO training is.

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
PAPERS
43
Learning to change: Skills
development among the
economically vulnerable and
socially excluded in
developing countries
Paul Bennell
Employment and Training Department
International Labour Office Geneva
First published 1999

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