The workshop titled ‘Training Needs Assessment’ was organised by the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (BBSYDP), in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation.
Representatives of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI), Kotri Site Association, Mirpurkhas Chamber of Commerce and Industry and project directors of BBSYDP participated in the event.
In his speech, former president Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Majid Aziz affirmed that BBSYDP was a globally recognised initiative for skill training of the youth. “Because of its viability, the World Bank, apart from some other international financial institutions, is financing the project,” he said, adding that some developing countries were also reviewing the programme.
Aziz advocated that the programme should be turned into a commission under the same title so that any attempts to change it in the future could be pre-empted because no such human resource development programme was coined in the past in Pakistan. He emphasised that skilled manpower was a pre-requisite for industrial development.
Highlighting the achievements of the programme, Provincial Coordinator BBSYDP, Karim Bakhsh Siddiqui, informed that 61,735 youth had so far been trained in 182 trades. He stated that the programme was a mega initiative of the Government of Sindh, oriented towards elimination of poverty and unemployment in the province through human resource development.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2010.
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