Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2013, publiée 103ème session CIT (2014)

Convention (n° 142) sur la mise en valeur des ressources humaines, 1975 - Kirghizistan (Ratification: 1992)

The Committee notes the Government’s report received in September 2013, which briefly indicates that there have been no new developments with regard to the implementation of the Convention. The Committee hopes that a report will be supplied in 2014 and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its 2008 direct request.

Repetition

Formulation and implementation of education and training policies. The Government previously referred to the provisions of Part V of the 2004 Labour Code. It also indicated that a State agency for vocational and technical training had been established with a view to implementing a national policy in this area. The Committee requests the Government to provide a report containing detailed information on the policies and programmes on vocational guidance and vocational training implemented by the State agency for vocational and technical training, and to indicate the extent to which these policies and programmes are linked to employment and employment services (Article 1(1)–(4) of the Convention). It also requests the Government to indicate the measures effectively implemented, including under the poverty reduction strategy, to encourage and enable all persons on an equal basis and without any discrimination whatsoever to develop and use their vocational skills in their own best interests and in accordance with their own aspirations (Article 1(5)).

Article 2. The Committee requests the Government to indicate how the measures taken as part of the national policy of vocational guidance and vocational training have contributed to the establishment and development of open, flexible and complementary systems of general, technical and vocational education, educational and vocational guidance and vocational training.

Information for vocational guidance. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on specific measures that have been taken to ensure that comprehensive information and the broadest possible guidance are available to all children, young persons and adults (Article 3(1)). Please also describe the type of information made available for vocational guidance and the manner in which such information is kept up to date and supply specimens of the documentation made available (Article 3(2) and (3)).

Article 4. Lifelong training. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on any measures taken to establish, maintain and constantly improve a coordinated system of lifelong education and training within the meaning of this provision of Convention No. 142 and the guidance given in the Human Resources Development Recommendation, 2004 (No. 195).

Article 5. Cooperation with employers’ and workers’ organizations. The Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report the measures taken to ensure the collaboration of employers and workers and, as appropriate, other interested bodies, in formulating and implementing policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training.

Application in practice. The Committee invites the Government to provide in its next report extracts of reports, studies and enquiries, statistical data, etc. on vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes currently being implemented (Part VI of the report form).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]