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THE GENDER ISSUE The Vocation Education and Training Authority is alive to the gender question. Although there has never been any official policy in favour of or against women and men, or boys and girls among the teaching staff or in the enrolment of trainees, VETA has joined in the public drive to deliberately get more women and girls on board. Some skills have traditionally been the domain of female trainees- the so called soft trades, a trend which is also common in academic institutions. Parents and the public generally are encouraged to send the girls for vocational education and training and the girls are also encouraged to join for a wider selection of trades.
Statistical data can be obtained from individual centres which are published in the VET catalogue issued annually. However the general picture is to the effect that while in 2004 girls made up 20% of the total enrolment, the figure rose to 24% in the year 2005. This is in respect of the long and short courses for both VETA owned and non-VETA owned training centres.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP For many years now, VETA owned training centres and many owned by private firms and individuals routinely offer entrepreneurial skills by using INTEP system to which men and women and also the youth aimed at empowering them for businesses and income generating activities generally. The courses are normally short and are often tailor-made. There are courses also on business management and financing. Courses available at the Dar es Salaam Region Vocational Training and service centre include:- House keeping, Basic clearing, Gardening, Food Production, Decoration, Catering (for Waiters and Waitresses), maintenance, Secretarial Services and Salesmanship.
Steps are being taken to introduce at the Morogoro Vocational Instructors College, the course in entrepreneurship for the trainee teachers so that with many of them trained, the subject may be taught at more centres and eventually throughout the country.
CHILD LABOUR. In the international programme to combat the Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) spearheaded by the International Labour Organisations. VETA in Tanzania is among organs which have been assigned with the task of rehabilitating those children who have been removed from worst forms of child labour. The IPEC programme has introduced in the year 2000. Children, removed from work in mines, commercial agriculture, domestic services and commercial sex have been and continue to be taken in for training in skills that are intended to give them the ability to earn an income. VETA has also turned to poor parents, 15 teach them entrepreneurial skills so that they may also earn an income. Many of the children who have gone into child labour have done that because of poverty at home.
This programme has produced some good results. By the year 2004 a total of 2111 children who had been withdrawn from the WFCL were enrolled for training. They were from the following specially selected districts: Ilala, Kinondoni, Temeke, Iramba, Kondoa, Iringa, Simanjiro, Arusha, Mufindi, Urambo and Arumeru. The target figure was 3000 children.
The children were given training in the following skills: Art Music, Auto Electric, Battery charging, Candle making, Cloth Designing, Cookery, Decoration, Masonry and Brick/block laying, Refrigeration and Air conditioning, Lapidary, Hair dressing, Embroidery, Tailoring, Auto body repair, Screen printing, Batik, Carpentry and joinery, Painting and sign-writing, Welding and fabrication, Business Skills, Motor cycle Mechanics, Auto mechanics, Horticulture, basics in Modern Agriculture and livestock keeping Mirror Vehicle Mechanics, Plumbing and Electrical Installations.
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