Narrative Description of the Project:
Centre of Excellence Bangladesh Apparel Industry (CEBAI) project of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) funded by ILO offered a market-responsive and demand-driven skills development programmes that meet nationally recognized standards. The initiative is driven by the RMG industry to address the challenges it faces in responding to changing market demands. Since its inception the Centre of Excellence project has supported CEBAI in number of key areas including curriculum development, the establishment of Enterprise Based Training centres, and the training of garment workers, for many of whom new skills translate into higher salaries and a better life. The main objective of the assignment was to develop competency standard for 03 new occupations in the RMG sector. Under this assignment IPTM was conducted a validation workshop in Dhaka during June to September 2017 where the total of 120 participants in 06 (six) batches attended the workshop.
Key Activities:
- Developed technical workshops of 1-day duration each was organized for the 3 occupations respectively with the experts to develop draft sets of CS’s
- Prepared the draft CS documents
- Organized three 01-day valid action workshops for each of the 03 occupations with the participation of ISCs/industry/sector representatives to validate the draft CSs and finalize the documents
- Finalized the CS documents
- Developed 02 sets of (Bengali and English) CS documents for each occupation