The First Secretary of the Canadian High
Commission and Education Sector Team Leader, Alice Birnbaum, said in
Dar es Salaam yesterday that the programme is being implemented through
the Education for Employment (EFE) Programme of College and Institutes
Canada (CICan).
The five-year programme, dubbed
Improving Skills Training for Employment Programme (ISTEP), is funded by
Global Affairs Canada. Binrbaum was speaking during a three-day
workshop of ISTEP focusing on Career Development Gender Equality held in
the city.
The pogramme will see 1,200 Tanzanian
youth with the right skills set to find employment in the extractives
and tourism sectors, including creating their own employment.
“ISTEP intended to bring together two of
our main priority sector. For our international development assistance
we focused on three main sectors, education, health and sustainable
economic growth,” she said. ISTEP is a bridge to the main two sectors of
education and health to contribute in economic development of Tanzania.
Carrier Council services are almost in
all schools in Canada to help coach people to decide and make right
decision to choose their carrier path.
CICan intended to bring now the service
in Tanzania to help the country have better system of coaching people
and train them depending on their strength and weaknesses and to know
need of the market to Tanzania youth,” she noted.
The Principal Officer in the Ministry of
Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Education, Gerald Misana,
said the programme has come at the right time as it would help the
majority of youth come up with better careers for personal and national
development.
“The majority of youth have been failing
due to poor selection of career, a move that has made them fail to
prosper in their trainings…the programme on career will now provide a
better guidance when selecting their education careers,” he said.
The undertaking of the programme will
see three planned intermediate outcomes that include improved
coordination and promotion of relevant gender and environmentally
sensitive skills for employment programmes in Tanzania.
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