The cooperation between DVV International and Vocational Development Department started in 2014. To continue the collaboration to promote the development of vocational education for young people in Laos DVV International has provided a grant to the department to launch a training programme titles “Providing Soft Skills to Lao Youth” with the goal of further improving the skills of young people and providing them with better job prospects.
An agreement on the cooperation was signed in Vientiane. Between the Regional Director of DVV International Mr. Uwe Gartenschlaeger and the Deputy Director General of the Vocational Development Department of Lao Youth Union, Mr. Khampoune Keoviphakone. The agreement covers the period from May 2018 to April 2019 and will provide various soft skills for young people in targeted center of Lao Youth Union.
The programme aims to develop the soft skills of young people so they can have more job opportunities or alternatively work in local industrial. Soft Skills are now highly appreciated in the education debate globally and especially around Asia. The concept includes the training of several key skills which are crucial for young people to make their way in the 21st century: leadership, decision making, self-esteem, communication, and time management. Youth should also be able to manage conflicts in a productive way and find creative solutions for various challenges.
Under agreement, the DVV International and Vocational Development Department will provide deliverables 6 trainings on soft skills including a training facilitator and facilitator manual on soft skills and produce videos with the keys element of soft skills. The target groups are youth mainly 16-25 age groups, with priority to be given young people from marginalized groups.
The two partners believe the programme will be successful in providing a more highly skills workforce to meet demands of economic growth and enable the country to accelerate the pace of development.
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