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Education and training for the informal sector - Education Research Paper No. 11, 1994, 332 p. [Previous Page] [Table of Contents] [Next Page] Acknowledgements and a note on sourcesThe authors of this report would like to acknowledge the assistance provided to them by staff from a number of donor agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations. In particular, our thanks go to the International Labour Office for allowing most members of the project team to attend the Expert Meeting on Training for Self-Employment through Vocational Training Institutes in Turin, in December 1993. This provided an opportunity to discuss the first full draft of this report with experts on this topic from every region of the world. We are particularly grateful to Iain Mckenzie of the Turin Centre and to Ayse Mitchell, F/PROF, ILO, who were the principal organisers of that seminar. Earlier in the year, at the International Conference on 'Out of school education, work and sustainability in the South' in Berlin, we had received assistance from Manfred Wallenborn of DSE, and Cornelia Lohmar-Kuhnle, both of whom have been closely associated with the shift of German aid policy to include an acknowledgement of the informal sector. We would also want to thank the editor of the DSE bulletin, Development and Cooperation, Reinold Thiel, for carrying an article on our ODA project in May 1993. Partly as a result of this article, the ODA project came to the attention of other agencies and interested parties, and was the principal reason that a member of the team was invited by SIDA to attend the International Workshop in Turin on Community Based Training for Self-Employment and Income Generation. We are particularly grateful to Ola Hallgren of SIDA for this opportunity. Also during 1993 a member of the team was invited to the Royal Tropical Institute expert symposium on 'Beyond subcontracting: assessing linkages between large and small enterprises'. This afforded the opportunity to discuss the project with David Wright, small enterprise adviser of ODA, and among others with John Grierson of SKAT, Switzerland and Donald Mead of Michigan State University. All three have made significant contributions to our thinking about the informal sector. By good fortune also, right at the beginning of 1993, the Institute for Development Research in Copenhagen and the Institute for Development Studies in Nairobi University put on a joint workshop in Nairobi on 'Networks of Enterprise: small and intermediate size enterprise in African industrialisation'. This workshop, organised by Dorothy McCormick and Poul Ove Pedersen, made it possible for a member of our team to meet many of the scholars in East and West Africa who are currently working on the micro-enterprise sector. In particular, it assisted us in identifying one of our four colleagues who were to work on country case studies of education and the informal sector. This was Osei Boeh-Ocansey from Ghana. For assistance in identifying our other contributors, we are grateful to Chris Aleke-Dondo of K-REP in Kenya for suggesting a colleague, Henry Oketch, and to Ernesto Schiefelbein, Director of OREALC, for identifying Graciela Messina, also of OREALC in Chile. For India, we are grateful to Steve Packer, then of the Commonwealth Secretariat, and T. V. Rao of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad for suggesting Keith D'Souza. In all cases, we had excellent collaboration from these additional members of our team, and through the good offices of the ODA we were able to bring them to London and to Edinburgh for detailed discussions on an early draft of our text and of their case studies; and we were also able to bring them to the Turin meeting on self-employment through vocational training institutes. By good fortune, the ILO had commissioned papers from the same four countries, Chile, Kenya, India and Ghana (amongst others) and hence there was a real opportunity for discussion about country-specific developments. As an additional research strategy we had targetted colleagues in many of the aid agencies for assistance with bibliographical references and also for identification of projects and programme developments within their agencies. We received very full support from Ron Hughes in CIDA, and very considerable assistance from Nadia Ebel in ILO, as well as valuable support from Van Adams in the World Bank, and from Heikki Kokkala in FINNIDA The director of CINTERFOR also provided valuable documentary assistance. Likewise, IIEP in Paris kindly gave us access to their documentation centre. As valuable as any of our research strategies was a brief tour made by one of our team to several of the key centres for research and documentation on aspects of vocational education and the informal sector. On this occasion, it was possible in Geneva to meet with many of the researchers who have worked on the informal sector, including Michel Carton of IUED, and Fred Fluitman, S.V. Sethuraman, Maria Ducci, Gretchen Goodale, Derek Bowland and Wilfred Dürr in the ILO. In Germany, we were similarly helped by Ewald Gold in GTZ and Manfred Wallenborn in DSE, Mannheim, while in Holland it was possible to meet with Bert Wasselink in FACET BV. The NGOs have been closely associated with the informal sector, and we received much help from Jim Tanburn and his colleagues in ApT, from Anthony Price of CAFOD, Judy el Bushra and Maureen Makki of ACORD and several others who provided important project insights for our work on women and the informal sector. We owe a special debt of gratitude, however, to Gren Jones and his colleagues in ODA's Education Division, who discussed the project at the outset, encouraged us to involve colleagues from other countries, and supported us in getting the volume into its present shape. We would want to mention here also Pat Scutt, M.T. Norman, Jim Butler, and Graham Larkbey, all of who helped us in ODA at key stages in the development and completion of this task. For correspondence Edinburgh Prof. Kenneth King/Mr. Simon McGrath London Prof. Roy Carr-Hill Dr. Fiona Leach ABBREVIATIONS
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