Technology Up-gradation and Skill Development Company (Tusdec) organised a one-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on "Entrepreneurship Development" in pursuant to the project "Supporting TVET Sector in Pakistan". The workshop was orchestrated for the instructors of TVET institutes functional in Haripur, Mansehra, Battagram and Haveliyan. A pool of 15 instructors has been graduated as master trainers for the capacity building of project trainees screened by Tusdec.
Faisal Mehmood, TVET Advisor at TUSDEC edified the participants on various facets of "Entrepreneurship" succeeded by the development of business plans to pragmatically articulate the expected gains from entrepreneurship for the socio-economic uplift of the society.
Entrepreneurship and economic development are interrelated in a domino effect and to actualise the socio-economic development goal of sustained livelihood for All, TUSDEC will extend full support to the students in their entrepreneurial ventures, said a spokesperson of the Company here on Friday.
Under the EU sponsored KP/FATA project of supporting TVET sector in Pakistan through involving private sector, TUSDEC consociated with 30 TVET institutes who have conducted market driven training courses in 20 districts of KP and FATA region during the pilot phase.
In cognisant to the objective of the project, TUSDEC aims at increment of the number of training programmes in the next phase to train a pool of 12,000 men and women of the rock-strewn province in different demand-driven trades. The graduates of three to six months training programmes will be assisted in their paid employment and entrepreneurial ventures to improve their livelihood chancels for a brighter and better future.
The spokesperson shared that the ToT sessions at Peshawar and now at Abbottabad on Entrepreneurship Development endeavoured to realise the career aspirations of the trainees and anticipates that the adopted project methodology will positively yield towards the downright achievement of project objectives within the stipulated timeframe of four years.
The session was solicitously organized and highly acknowledged by the Guest of Honour Amina Sardar, MPA and a member of the standing committee of Technical Education, KP. She presented the certificates to the participants at the conclusion of the workshop and appreciated TUSDEC's effort in promoting TVET sector in KP and FATA. Participants affirmatively declared that the pedagogy is comprehensively formulated and objectively delivered accentuating their subject knowledge for the promotion of entrepreneurship. This is the second workshop of the series and further workshops are contrived for the instructors hailing from Swat, Malakand, Dir, Buneer and Chitral.