As many as 900,000 rural labourers across the country will have the chance to access vocational training in 2015.

The figure is expected to hit 5.5 million from 2016 to 2020, around 60 percent of which will have benefited from a vocational training project for rural labourers known as Project 1956.

The project, to be carried out from 2010 to 2020, intends to enhance the quality of the work force, ultimately serving industrialisation, modernisation, and agricultural and rural development of Vietnam.

After five years of implementation, nearly 2.2 million rural people across the country have already accessed the vocational training services, representing 30.5 percent of the project’s 11-year target.

More than 70,000 households with members who secured jobs after training have since escaped poverty, accounting for 33.7 percent of the targeted households.

Some of the trained have established their own businesses, creating jobs for other local workers, while others have increased their efficiency and productivity in their current position, though the majority simply changed jobs to better-paid positions.

Surveys conducted in six communes in the capital city Hanoi and Dien Bien, Quang Binh, Lam Dong, Dong Nai and Dong Thap provinces revealed that awareness of vocational trainings has been enhanced among rural labourers.

A close link connecting local authorities, enterprises, vocational training institutions, and trainees, has also been established.

Many workers have become role models for business and production, ultimately contributing to improving the local living conditions.

During 2014 alone, nearly 267,000 of 338,000 rural labourers found jobs after receiving vocational training, exceeding the project’s target by 8.87 percent.

Nearly 8,000 targeted households escaped from poverty and more than 11,000 others exceeded the local income average.

The Central Steering Committee for the project has asked localities to review potential occupations for training rural labourers to ensure market-relevant training services.

Ministries, sectors and localities have also been requested to examine the training services, especially for three-month courses, in terms of curriculum, duration, institutions, and trainers, as well as strengthen their monitoring and inspection of the implementation.

VNA