Vietnam

Empowerment of the Vocational Training Centre for Disabled People in Hô Chi Minh - Phase II

• Funding: Rhône-Alpes Region
• Global budget : €140,700
• Duration: 9 Months (September 2007 to April 2009)

Beneficiaries:

• The center’s students: 300 to 400 people per year (depending on the duration and type of course)
• The center’s staff: 64 people

Presentation of Implementation Action

For this second year of funding, the project continues the activities initiated in 2006-2007 in the Vocational Training Center for Disabled People. Extra efforts will be dedicated to developing the Vocational Training Consultancy Service and the Job Center.

During Phase II, the general objectives of this project’s first phase will be maintained, (e.g. improve the quality of training provided by the centre and facilitate disabled people’s access to employment). In addition, Phase II’s new general objective is to Contribute to improving the occupational integration of disabled people in Ho Chi Minh.

This will operate via 5 specific objectives:

• Ensure that more disabled people benefit from academic and vocational training.
• Ensure that more disabled people benefit from vocational integration and having a job.
• Empower the skills of the center’s staff and raise their awareness about the particular situation of disabled people.
• Improve the quality of training spaces for disabled people.
• Evaluate the possibility of creating, in the centre, a practical workshop designed for severely disabled students who cannot enter the work market on a regular basis.