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Implementation of policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in August 2008 and the information supplied in reply to its previous request for detailed information on the progress being made. It notes the continuation of the initiatives taken by the Government to strengthen the system of vocational guidance and to improve the system of vocational education in the rural areas through the establishment of a specialist post for vocational development in the labour offices countrywide. It also notes the measures taken which are aimed at further improving the quality of education and its adjustment to the labour market needs based on the programmes developed by the ILO and funded partly by the European Union and the World Bank. Finally, it notes the current amendment process of the 2004 Act on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions. The Committee looks forward to examining in the Government’s next report information on the effective implementation of the reform of the vocational education and training system so as to ensure that: (i) vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes take due account of employment needs, opportunities and problems, both regional and national, thereby improving the integration between work and learning; and (ii) there is coordination between vocational guidance, vocational training policies and programmes and the initiatives taken to promote employment (Article 1(1–4) of the Convention).