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As a major contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014, InWEnt Capacity Building International, in partnership with UNESCO-UNEVOC and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Vocational and Technical Education and Training (SEAMEO VOCTECH), hosted an international conference in Bali, Indonesia from 24 to 26 November 2008. The purpose of the conference was to share the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) models with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries in order to enhance skills recognition arrangements across ASEAN, and to examine international tendencies in human resource development (HRD) at the workplace. Specific conference aims were to: highlight and provide information on regional arrangements to serve as a context for discussing and potentially developing new measures for ASEAN; outline the aims, objectives, and activities of InWEnt’s current project, ‘Innovation Network South East Asia for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Sustainable Development’; provide an overview of possible options for HRD in companies, to make the workforce and TVET graduates more employable by gearing vocational training more effectively towards the demand side, and to the needs of trade and industry; and compare strategies and tools on HRD provided by the participating countries and donor agencies.

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