Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

11873_2002 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
“It [vocational training] attracts mainly those who cannot afford the
academic line or those seeking quick skills to get to work and generate
income for the family.”
To ensure sustainable development, the strategy stresses the necessity of
enhancing the capacities of fresh graduates by initiating specific training
programs to meet the competitive needs of the global market through closer
cooperation with the private sector.
In the same way, the strategy also suggests the use of school premises after
hours, to give graduates of vocational training an opportunity to train and
get more experience in the practical aspects of their work for better
employment opportunities in the future.
It suggests that the Higher Council for Vocational Training set criteria for
ranking vocational training graduates and provide advisory services to
companies as well as training centers as to what skills and professions are
needed for the influx of new graduates and young Jordanians seeking
employment every year in a tight private and public sector job market.
This, as envisaged by the strategy, would in the long run minimize the need
to bring in foreign workers.
The strategy’s objective is “to serve the poor, alleviate destitution and make
them productive individuals dependent only on themselves at the end of the
day.”
The government poverty alleviation policy
The main foci of the national poverty alleviation are:
- To understand, measure and evaluate poverty phenomena in order to
direct policies and services in a better way. This can be done via drawing
the poverty maps.
- To increase the assistant level to the beneficiaries of National Aid Fund
(NAF) and to expand the beneficiaries base through the restructuring of
NAF and establishing a database to connect all aid funds in Jordan.
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