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Award of training contract

Posted: 17 September 2007 | Source: FCU

The Thina Sinako Provincial Local Economic Development (LED) Support Programme is proud to announce the appointment of a team from Mbumba Development Services cc to roll out an LED training programme in the Province. The Mbumba appointment has been made following a competitive negotiated procedure run in terms of the Practical guide to contract procedures for European Commission External Actions (PRAG).

The overall objective of the training programme is “to improve the capabilities of key institutions partaking in, as well as local beneficiaries of the Provincial LED Support Programme to realise the aims of the programme”. In particular, the contract makes provision for training of the following categories of institutions and individuals:

Ultimate beneficiary communities, local entrepreneurs and municipalities.
Local development-facilitation agents and institutions, mainly municipalities and their institutional partners, developed to facilitate the creation of an enabling and supportive environment for LED.
Core Provincial Departments driving LED Strategy & Programming; principally the Department of Housing, Local Government and Traditional Affairs (DHLGTA) and the Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs (DEDEA) in collaboration with other Departments.

The details of the programme are being finalised at present – this includes finalising participant lists, venues and associated logistics, and the structuring of modules. The training programme will build on an earlier review of LED training material and an LED curriculum development framework developed by the Thina Sinako Programme.

It will also take further LED training undertaken to date in the Province, including the training of over 900 individuals in LED and/or project development in 2006, and the training of 72 LED facilitators earlier this year. As with previous training interventions, this new intervention will target people from all 6 district municipal areas and the Metro, as well as people operating on a province-wide basis.

It is anticipated that this training programme will be followed by further training initiatives in future years, and that it will complement the other institutional and capacity development, as well as learning, activities supported by the Thina Sinako Programme.