Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) (No. 159)

Convention concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Persons (No. 159)

Currently there are 2 occupational rehabilitation centres in Latvia the Republican Rehabilitation Centre (RRC) and the Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Centre (VTRC) Alsviķi.

75. ILO Convention No. 159, 1983, concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons).

Trade, vocational and general secondary schools, as well as vocational training courses for people in vocational rehabilitation centres for the disabled, by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

a) Working with the disabled to facilitate rehabilitation, shelter modification, mainstreaming into the education system, learning support centres in schools, vocational training reskilling and access to credit

The following levels of vocational education have been established in the Latvian educational system primary vocational education secondary vocational education higher professional education.

Rehabilitation work of a comprehensive nature educational, psychological (trauma counselling), vocational for children affected by war.

(k) Promote vocational and professional rehabilitation, job retention and return to work programmes for persons with disabilities.

For school drop outs, non formal education programmes were mentioned, as were vocational rehabilitation and counsel ling.

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at ARCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, home outreach services and recreational activities.

(d) A mobile rehabilitation team, also established at the provincial level, which is available to provide additional rehabilitation and vocational services at the village and subdistrict levels, as required

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection's vocational technical education system has 73 vocational technical schools that train specialists in 160 specialties.

And improved access to education and vocational training would serve to ameliorate their opportunities for rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

Vocational Training Institutes (V.T.I. ) are not graded within the official educational system.

In the field of rehabilitation, similar Rehabilitation Centres (Public Law institutions) operate all over the country, aiming at the physical, functional, and social rehabilitation, as well as education, vocational training, planning and implementing programmes in the field of disability.

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at the RCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, a home outreach service and recreational activities.

beginning vocational, secondary vocational, higher vocational education

The Committee is also concerned at the lack of vocational training or rehabilitation programmes for those below 18 who have been detained.

As to the occupational integration of the disabled, Tunisia has ratified ILO Convention No. 159 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons).

A main characteristic of the youth custody system is both schooling and vocational training.

Balance at 1 January 1996 rehabilitation of water supply system

Vocational training for graduates of special education institutions is based on a list of vocational training areas and specialties that correspond to those categories of students, and is performed in special schools or in conventional schools of the system of beginning vocational and secondary vocational education.

With regard to the system of prisoner rehabilitation, the Constitution states

518. As far as vocational education is concerned, the Act concerning the educational system has maintained the types of vocational schools that have existed since the 1960s, i.e.

Two projects in Hungary are helping to reform higher and vocational education, and Bank sector work is analysing policy options for reforming the Russian Federation s vocational educational system.

Vocational training centres Vocational training placesa

The Israeli secondary education system is composed of both technological vocational and general public high schools.

521. The numerical data for the vocational education system in the years 1992 1994 are as follows

Vocational education Until the restoration of independence in 1990 1991 the system of establishments and programmes of vocational education developed according to the much centralised policy followed in the Soviet Union.

In partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs, ILO supported the establishment in Hebron of a vocational and rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities and special needs.

157. The compensatory allowance is a special entitlement granted to workers with decreased capacity for work if their remuneration decreases on account of their undergoing vocational rehabilitation.

The rehabilitation of the Centre for Adult Vocational Training in Dekwaneh, financed by UNDP and the Government of Lebanon and executed by ILO, was completed in 1997.

Vocational

Funds are urgently needed for the rehabilitation of corrections infrastructure and for system development.

In the area of technical cooperation, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) worked to develop human resources and create vocational training schemes at rehabilitation centres in recipient countries.

The system of vocational training has yet to reach maturity in Pakistan though its importance is being appreciated increasingly.

72. Vocational and technical training constitute an important part of the country apos s system of human resources development.

Vocational education establishments of vocational education (information of the CSD)

Higher vocational education in the country is performed on the basis of general secondary, beginning vocational and secondary vocational education, and colleges of higher vocational schools and in State institutions of higher vocational education, including private institutions.

Vocational workshops

Furthermore, with effect from 1 January 1995 a new financial management system has been introduced for the vocational training programmes.

Career and vocational guidance is not yet a regular feature of the education system in Pakistan for both boys and girls.

44. The vocational training system offers a broad variety of courses for both persons in employment as well as unemployed persons.

In this context, the programme took steps to explore avenues by which UNRWA and the community based rehabilitation centres could further enhance the vocational training and employment of persons with disabilities.