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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