Shapla Technical Training Institute

PKSF, over the years, has gained in-depth understanding and valuable experiences on the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and acknowledge the fact that Bangladesh is well-placed to benefit from the demographic dividend up to 2050, and believe that combined with effective policies and markets could trigger faster rates of economic growth and human development. Thereby, accept as true that human resource plays a vital role in the knowledge economy and working population and it is becoming an increasingly important factor for the performance of individuals, organizations and whole economies. However, the upgrading of skill-based labor market due to technological and organizational change is one of the major threats for the low skilled workers in Bangladesh, as they are being unable to adjust their skills according to the market demand. In this context, PKSF has agreed to implement the ‘Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP)’ project and signed the MoU with SDCMU on 7^th May 2015 for Tranche-1 and 26^th May, 2018 for Tranche-2 to ensure training and employment for the poor and marginalized people of the country so that they can develop their living standard sustainably. PKSF has been ensuring demand driven skill-development training among the poor people under the SEIP project with a view to create productive self and wage employment.

The Finance Division of Ministry of Finance, the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) is working as the executive agency to implement this project and has established ‘Skill Development Coordination and Monitoring Unit’ (SDCMU) to execute it. In cooperation with SDCMU, different organizations including PKSF are implementing the aforementioned project. The Asian Development Bank, the Government of Bangladesh and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are jointly financing the project.

The goal of the project is to develop skilled workforce through skills development training and therefore placing them in productive self and wage employment which will improve their sustainable livelihoods.

To Fulfil this goals Shapla Gram Unnayan Sangstha works as a Partner of PKSF. 

The main objectives of the SEIP project that we are following:

• To impart skills training linked to gainful wage or self-employment through our training institutes;
• To increase access for targeted poor (both male and female) people to market responsive skills development training programs; and
• To ensure job placement of the trainees after training.