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Article 1(1)–(4) of the Convention. Close link with employment. The Committee notes the succinct information provided in the Government’s report received in July 2010. The Government indicates that, in order to enable workers to acquire skills reflecting the needs of the labour market, in 2008 the State Agency for Social Protection, Employment and Migration within the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection established the Tajikistan Adult Training Centre. In this centre, adults, migrant workers, women without a profession and others are trained in specific fields. In 2009, 2,308 unemployed citizens were trained in the centre. The Government further indicates that the State Scientific Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection within the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection carried out a survey on vocational training. The survey formulated recommendations aimed at: improving vocational training and guidance; integrating primary and vocational education in the structure of existing economic relations and actual practice of enterprises; establishing a single vocational training and guidance space; developing quality indicators of vocational education and establishing monitoring systems; actively involving employers and senior management in training staff; establishing conditions to improve skill levels in vocational education; promoting cooperation and exchanges between teachers, including at international level. The Committee requests the Government to provide in its next report information on any progress made as a consequence of the recommendations of the State Scientific Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection to ensure that the skills of workers match actual labour market demands.

Extension and development of the system of vocational training. The Committee notes that one of the priorities of the Decent Work Country Programme signed with the ILO for the years 2007–09 was further developing the national vocational training system, also through the ILO’s modular employable skills methodology. The Committee invites the Government to include in its next report information on any progress made as the result of the assistance received from the ILO and other international organizations to develop the vocational and technical education systems and the steps taken with a view to extending the systems of vocational training to cover fields of economic activity not previously within their scope and to ensure that they are adapted to the changing requirements of individuals throughout their lives, as well as those of the economy and of the different branches of economic activity.

Article 5. Cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations. The Committee notes that, in its report under Convention No. 122, the Government provided information on the participation of the social partners in the preparation and monitoring of the General Agreement 2009–11, which aims, inter alia, to promote employment. The Committee invites the Government to describe the measures adopted to ensure the cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations and, where applicable, other interested bodies in the formulation and implementation of vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes at national and local level so as to fully take into account their experiences and views.