A 3-day experts’ meeting from 3-5 August 2011 was chaired by the ILO RO-Beirut Enterprise Development Specialist, Ms. Rania Bikhazi.

The meeting took place at the Kempinski hotel in Amman, Jordan and was attended by KAB Regional and National Key Facilitators and KAB coordinators from the Arab Region.  Its aim was to review and finalize the KAB 2012 edition through the mainstreaming of gender, green and disability concepts as well as the integration of the decent work topic in the package.

The ILO Regional Office for Arab states organized a 3-day training workshop from 31 July till 2 August 2011at the Kempinski hotel in Amman, Jordan.

Under the supervision of the Enterprise Development Specialist, Ms. Rania Bikhazi, the workshop was delivered by Mr. Marek Harsdorff (Green Jobs Programme, ILO)who presented the green concepts that have been integrated in the SIYB package and the new KAB module “Know About Green Business” (Optional Module Green Business, a 3x4 hours training comprising 50 pages). Participants included SIYB Master Trainers, KAB Regional and National Key facilitators and KAB coordinators from the Arab Region.

 

High levels of enterprise creation and entrepreneurship are associated with the creation of more and better jobs for women and men. This is why the ILO seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship as part of employment initiatives. The ILO has an extensive set of entrepreneurship training packages designed to suit the needs of different target groups. Youth is one such target, and another is women. People with disabilities can also benefit from ILO entrepreneurship training.

To be effective and to have an impact, these training packages need to be delivered by well prepared and suitably qualified trainers. The ILO has a trainer certification system in place for many of its training packages, such as SIYB and KAB. The 11 day Entrepreneurship Training of Trainers Academy is designed to be one of the steps that a trainer may decide to take on the path to certification. It will be taken into account by the ITC ILO as the training of trainers’ component of a trainer certification process.

The Entrepreneurship Training of Trainers Academy is designed to:

• Enhance training and learning facilitation skills;

• Familiarize entrepreneurship trainers with the content and delivery methods of ILO training packages in the areas of either entrepreneurship education (KAB) or women’s entrepreneurship development or business skills for artists

For more information, click on "Read more" here below to access the Academy brochure in English and Spanish. Also, if you are interested in more and other training courses offered by the ILO Training Center in Turin please visit their site at:

http://emld.itcilo.org/en

“Know About Business” (KAB) develop by the International Labour Organization has been included in the curriculum of secondary schools, approved by the National workshop on curriculum Reform for upper secondary Education on July 7-9, 2011 supported by ADB, attended with 140 persons under the chairperson of vice Minister Ministry of Education and Sports.

The Refresher Training of Teachers workshop on “Know About Business” for the upper secondary schools of Module 6-9 in 5 provinces launched on September - October 2010 which resulted in positive outcomes

On 24-30 November 2010, the workshop of committee approval of curriculum and instructional material  (CACIM) was choose the KAB in two categories namely

First category: • For 12 hours to share with the vocational and technical curriculum for

Module 1-5 in  the ten class year of academic year. and

• For 12 hours to share for Module 6-9 in the eleven class year of

Academic  year.

Second Category:

The KAB was selected in the choosing subject:

• For 68 hours for Module 1-5 implemented in the ten class year of

academic year and

• For 68 hours for Module 6-9 implement in the eleven class year of

academic year .

At the present, Subject on “Know About Business” (KAB) was included in the educational system of the upper secondary schools which will start implementation from 2010 academic year.

On October 25, at DoLISA meeting room, a KAB introduction meeting has been held with the participation of the Vice Director of DoLISA, the ILO LED QN CTA, the head of Vocational Training Office/DoLISA, LED officers from DoLISA and ILO, headmasters/mistresses and management staffs from 10 vocational training institutes (VTIs) in Quang Nam.

After the opening and introduction of the DoLISA vice director and ILO-LED CTA, Mr. Hoang Van Duong has briefly introduced the ITC-ILO KAB program to participants. The main content of the presentation is[1]: Rationale of entrepreneurship education, what is the ILO KAB training package, what differences in the ILO-KAB training package, milestones of the ILO-KAB in Vietnam, results and learned lessons after three pilots of KAB in Vietnam, main requirements for the introduction of KAB into VTIs in QN and next steps.

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[1] See the power point presentation in annex for details

Varios photos from Viet-Nam TOT and Classrooms from the pilot project  which was rolled out in 2010.