REALIZATION OF TECHNICAL AND
VOCATIONAL SKILLS IN SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudan had for long period been expecting development
of its infrastructures, but because of being dominated by the northern elite;
nothing had been achieved. The management of the resources was in the hands of
the northern Sudanese and the southerners had been streamlined to the military,
local labor market and other positions of the academic education.
There were no decision-makers from the south who would plan
for the development of south Sudan; the hand-picked politician had no say to
any decision negatively made by the government. With the secession of the south
Sudan, emerging as a new nation; considerable developmental strategies has been
enforced. Although as a young nation with little human resources in terms of
professional engineers, doctors, agriculturists and technicians in all fields;
basic realization of development in infrastructures are on-going.
South Sudan has managed to include in its strategies of
creating the ministries, the Directorate of Technical Vocational Education
Training [TVET] which shall be engaged in skill training programs that creates
a competitive infrastructures and development.
In the innovative thinking, construction skills are among
those focused and when youths are engaged in this training of “learning by
doing” to acquire excellent skill levels for the re-construction and
development of the young nation. Now when south Sudan as nation is compared
with the period when it was one Sudan; there is a considerable improvement in
all fields of works and this indicates that, there is a responsible government managed
by the southerners themselves and attention of technical and vocational
education training has been put as top priority.
Numerous indicators assumed that, learning by doing in the
vocational training constitutes greater role in the production of the human
resource, yet there is need to have enough vocational training centers for
training the manpower.
Innovative thinking is to be encouraged to build up the entrepreneur’s
skills capacity for the development of south Sudan in all technical fields.
The package of IGAD Capacity Building Initiative for
building up the skill capacity in South Sudan is one of active wing that will contribute
to skill capacity build up in all the government vocational training
institutions. The two-year contract will build up the capacity of instructors
and create reliable corridors that will bring a change and create a sustainable
life.
| Figure 2: Lecturing to students: |
The RSS and IGAD initiative has to improve skill training
through the technical and vocational center that is being established by the
government.
| Figure 3: Improvement of skills
through RSS and IGAD initiative |
The RSS and IGAD initiative has come up with tentative plans
for developing intensive training of skills in all technical areas and this
will improve the skills for sustainable life in South Sudan.
| igure 4: RSS/IGAD partnership in
MTC |
The RSS/IGAD Capacity Building Initiative partnership has
come at the right time when the young nation was devastated by war during the
north/south conflict that resulted to the creation of the new nation. Infrastructures
were at state of collapse with no skill worker to maintain.
Figure 5: South Sudan infrastructure
before becoming a nation
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| Figure 6: Skill Conference or
seminars |
