Canadian NGO to provide skills training to improve businesses
The Canada Sri Lanka Business Council represents a significant group of businesses that link with Canada for business and investment and these businesses employ thousands of workers and they need thousands in the future. Therefore, it is significant to build a partnership between an education and training organization and a business council, according to Richard Bonokoski, Country Director – World University Service of Canada (WUSC).
He was speaking at the occasion in Colombo last week of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between WUSC and the Canada Sri Lanka Business Council to provide training in needed skills in Sri Lanka.
Official development cooperation between Canada and Sri Lanka commenced in 1950. In 2004 Canada provided US$50 million for tsunami repair work and $ 84.4 million for longer term tsunami reconstruction.
He said that the WUSC has a long history of collaboration with the government of Sri Lanka, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development, and its agencies to address training needs in the country. Training would be provided to build the capacity of women and youth in Sri Lanka and train individuals to find gainful employment to be productive. When training providers plan and schedule their programmes together with businesses, they make sure they are training young people for real jobs in a real job market, Mr Bonokoski said.
The collaboration between businesses and training providers produce a shared understanding of market requirements; provides a realistic forecast of the jobs needed; a competence profile for each job; an effective training programme to build the competence to do the job; instructions geared to developing attitude, knowledge and skill that employees need and employers want; opportunities for training on the job to practice those skills; jobs for young people who complete programmes and performance on the job that makes business more efficient, effective and productive.
Pierre Heroux, Head of Aid, Canadian High Commission in Sri Lanka; Rajendra Theagarajah, Managing Director Hatton National Bank and member of the Board of Directors, WUSC; Sampath Liyanage, President, Sri Lanka Canada Business Council and Ms Megan Foster, Counselor, Canadian High Commission also participated in MoU signing ceremony
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