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On 10-12 August 2005, TVET (technical and vocational education and training) experts from around Asia came together for an international conference on 'Integrating sustainable development issues into TVET: poverty alleviation and skills for employability, citizenship and conservation in Asia and the Pacific'. The objectives of the two-day conference were to exchange knowledge, experiences and best practices in integrating sustainable development issues into TVET. Presentations and papers on the CDROM include: Sustainable human resources development in Asia and the Pacific region: its dilemmas and implications / Man-Gon Park; The decade of education for sustainable development: the Asia-Pacific implementation plan / Derek Elias; Orientating TVET for sustainable development: issues, concerns and prospects / Rupert Maclean; TVET for sustainable development in Thailand / Veerasak Wonsombat; TVET for poverty alleviation and rural transformation / David Atchoareana; Environmental education and sustainable development in TVE: the Philippine experience / Nehema K. Misola; Developing entrepreneurship for rural youth and women / Tariq Mahmood; Skills development for income generation through non-formal education: patterns and issues from a five-country regional study / Richard G. Bagnall; Re-orienting TVET for sustainable development: towards systematic approach for its conceptualisation / Margarita Pavlova; International cooperation through integration of sustainable development issues into vocational education and training / Noorhaizamdin bib Haji Mosbi; TVET and EFA experiences in the ASIA-Pacific region / Miki Nozawa; Intercultural education for promoting sustainable development in TVET / Johanna Lasonen; Developing thinking skills programmes for TVET workers in the work place / Bundit Pattawekongka; Skills development for employability, citizenship and competitiveness / Ray Grannall; VET through PET: vocational education training through power tool educational training / K.P. Murthy; Social vitality: examples from Australia and China / Veronica Volkoff; Integrating sustainable development of eco-economic area construction into TVET: approaches to dealing with the migrants' problems in learning vocational skills / Zhao Jiping and Liu Yu; Infusing ESD perspective in technical education: experience with polytechnic curriculum in Karnataka, India / M.J. Ravindranath; Developing sustainability guidelines for TVET / Andrew Rickard; Learning to do: an ESD support resource for TVET / Lourdes Quisumbing and Maria Lourdes Q. Baybay; Private vocational education: directions for the national development / Chakkrapan Pornnimit; Sustainability and TVET: issues arising from working with rural communities in the Central Himalayas / Lalit Pande; E-teaching and learning systems for skill training in rural community information systems / Myong-Hee Kim; Employers' role in human resource development for sustainability / Visuth Jirathiyut; and Empowering TVET towards human-centred sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region: issues and challenges, problems and prospects / Lourdes Quisumbing.