HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

• Why support skills development in Bangladesh? If you are an employer who needs skilled workers, a non-government organisation or a business who cares about corporate social responsibility, this practical how-to leaflet is for you. Why you should care and what you can do about it.
• Why become a Registered Training Organisation? The benefits of your company or institution becoming a nationally-recognised training organisation, and how to do it.
• How to implement the new National Qualifications Framework: The National Training and Vocational Qualifications Framework Implementation Manual explains how and why your company or institution should start delivering nationally-recognised skills today.
• Why and how to include people with disabilities in training and jobs in Bangladesh: Positive experiences of hiring and training persons with disabilities in Bangladesh, and how you can get involved.
• Why and how to include women in mainstream training in Bangladesh: Barriers to female participation, guidance and practical tools and information on available technical resources.

• Pilot 1: Benefits for all: Designing an inclusive skills development programme: Develop a model which shows how underprivileged women and persons with disabilities can become skilled workers.
• Pilot 1: Replication Guide: How you can replicate the model in your training institution, non-government organisation or company.
• Pilot 1: (Case Study): Gazipur Technical School & College recruit underprivileged people through CARE, financially support them through Far East Knitting and IDLC, train them on the job through Far East and employ them through Far East and a selected group of local employers
• Pilot 2: Learning and Earning: Overcoming low education levels through skills development: The challenge: Develop a model which shows that working children, disadvantaged and low educated youth can become skilled workers in the motorcycle servicing industry.
• Pilot 2: Replication Guide: How you can replicate the model in your training institution, non-government organisation or company.
• Pilot 3: Formalising informal skills: Structuring informal apprenticeships: Develop a model which shows that informal apprenticeships can be structured and effective in creating skilled workers in a range of industries.
• Pilot 4: Sewing the seeds of success: Meeting industry needs through formal apprenticeships: Develop a model which shows that formal apprenticeships can create skilled workers which meet industry needs in the leather sector.
• Pilot 5: Apprentices build futures: Develop a model which shows that people with low levels of education can become skilled workers in the shipbuilding sector through an improved apprenticeship system.