Jamaica project 532-0083 · 1983

Project to improve basic skills training in Jamaica. The project will promote the institutional development of the Human Employment and Resources Training (HEART) Trust, the implementing entity, and upgrade nonformal and formal skills training in, respectively, the Ministries of Youth and Community Development (MYCD) and of Education (MOE). To help develop the still nascent HEART Trust, A.I.D. will provide long- and short-term TA; long-, short-term, and inservice training to 12, 60, and 66 HEART staff members, respectively; and office equipment and vehicles. In the nonformal skill training component, A.I.D. will provide new equipment, curricula, and training materials to 4 of the 15 HEART vocational training academies for 17-20 year olds which will replace the MYCD's current network of Industrial Training Centers. A.I.D. will also develop for MYCD's Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) a Curricula and Training Materials Resource Center to serve the HEART Academies, private firms, and public and private training institutions, primarily by adapting existing (rather than developing wholly new) educational materials. In cooperation with the formal skill training component,

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAQ-447 (1983). The source's own text.