000 04697nam a22004575i 4500
001 978-1-4020-3828-0
003 DE-He213
005 20161121230625.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 100301s2006 ne | s |||| 0|eng d
020 _a9781402038280
_9978-1-4020-3828-0
024 7 _a10.1007/1-4020-3828-3
_2doi
050 4 _aLC1051-1072
050 4 _aLC1041-1048
072 7 _aJNRV
_2bicssc
072 7 _aEDU031000
_2bisacsh
072 7 _aEDU046000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a370.113
_223
100 1 _aHaan, Hans Christiaan.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTraining for Work in the Informal Micro-Enterprise Sector:
_h[electronic resource] :
_bFresh Evidence from Sub-Sahara Africa /
_cby Hans Christiaan Haan.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2006.
300 _aXXXIV, 280 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 1 _aTechnical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ;
_v3
505 0 _aInformal Micro-enterprises in Sub-Sahara Africa -- Brief Overview of Education and Training in Sub-Sahara Africa -- Public Training Providers and the IME Sector -- Private Training Providers and the IME Sector -- NGOs and ISAs and Training for the IME Sector -- Informal Apprenticeship Training -- Summary and Conclusions.
520 _aIn Sub-Sahara Africa, the sector of informal micro-enterprises (IMEs) is already employing a large share of the labour force in both urban and rural areas. There are even indications that in the past decade it has been a source of employment and incomes for nine out of every 10 new entrants to the labour market. This study reviews the ways in which the owners and workers of IMEs have acquired the vocational and management skills that they are using in the operation of these ventures. It reviews the contributions of all the different training providers, including public sector training institutes, private sector training providers, and training centres run by NGOs and other non-profit organizations. Its findings confirm the notion that the training efforts of these formal training providers are only to a limited extent relevant for the IME operators, and that many of the poor and other vulnerable groups do not have ready access to these programmes. The study finds that informal apprenticeship training is by far the most common source of various skills - in some countries it is likely to be responsible for 80-90% of all ongoing training efforts. Informal apprenticeship training presents a number of important advantages: it is practical, hands-on training at an appropriate level of technology, takes place in the real world of work, offers good prospects for post-training employment and is essentially self-financing. At the same time it has a number of limitations: the training quality is often modest, there is a risk of ‘incomplete’ transfer of skills and knowledge, limited infusion of technological progress, and uncertainties with regard to the duration of the apprenticeship period, the training programme and the skills acquired at the end of the training. The study concludes that there is a major challenge to improve the transfer of relevant skills to IME operators, through both pre-employment training and skills upgrading. In view of the scope of the challenge to provide hundreds of thousands IME owners and workers, as well as large numbers of out of school youths, with relevant practical and management skills, it suggests to build upon the strengths of the existing practices of informal apprenticeship training and to remedy its weaknesses by involving professional training providers in upgrading its training organization and delivery, quality and efficiency, and final training outcomes. It reviews the results of a number of innovative interventions in different African countries that are working in this direction. Finally, the study suggests that there is an interesting potential in‘business-embedded training’ provided by private companies as part of their regular business operations.
650 0 _aEducation.
650 1 4 _aEducation.
650 2 4 _aProfessional & Vocational Education.
650 2 4 _aLearning & Instruction.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781402038273
830 0 _aTechnical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ;
_v3
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3828-3
912 _aZDB-2-SHU
950 _aHumanities, Social Sciences and Law (Springer-11648)
999 _c501518
_d501518