STORY: Tanzania validates occupational standards for industrial growth
SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 23, 2024
DATELINE: Feb. 24, 2024
LENGTH: 00:04:00
LOCATION: MOROGORO, Tanzania
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZHANG YUJIA, Acting country director for Sunmaker Tanzania
2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Swahili): ADOLF RUTAYUGA, NACTVET Executive Director
3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): SIMON BAREGU, Curriculum developer for TVETs
4. various of the meeting in Morogoro, Tanzania

STORYLINE:

More than 100 experts and delegates from Tanzanian government institutions, institutions of technical and vocational education and training (TVET), and delegates from the industry had a two-day meeting in the Morogoro Region, eastern Tanzania, on Thursday and Friday to validate occupational standards in important sectors for the growth of the industrial economy.

The occupational standards have been prepared by the National Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NACTVET) in collaboration with local and foreign stakeholders, including Sunmaker, a Chinese company focused on skills development for African youth and the secretariat organization of the China-Africa TVET Alliance.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZHANG YUJIA, Acting country director for Sunmaker Tanzania
"We have started to work with NACTVET since 2022. We started with the review and development of the National Occupational Standards and program development standards. And next, we moved to the development of curriculum standards for Tanzania, and, in parallel, we also did the digitization of the teaching and training materials, this is at the national level. At the institutional level, together with NACTVET we helped to partner with the Chinese institutions, together with the Tanzania institutions to the one-to-one partnership. And through the one-to-one partnership between the institutions, they can also have like staff exchanges and also the joint diploma program to cultivate students."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Swahili): ADOLF RUTAYUGA, NACTVET Executive Director
"Our country is currently building an industrial economy that requires many qualified and skilled workers. So, as a country, we can not avoid investing in the production of competent and skilled workers to meet demand of the labor market. Recognizing this important role, NACTVET, in collaboration with local and foreign stakeholders. As I have mentioned on the concept our colleagues from Sunmaker and Chinese institutions in China. We teamed up to prepare Occupational Standards in important sectors for the growth of the industrial economy."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): SIMON BAREGU, Curriculum developer for TVETs
"Once everything is done, it means we will have set up standards which our training institutions and working people will use to develop their either training curriculums or jobs specifications and personnel recruitment standards."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Morogoro, Tanzania.
(XHTV)