Asharqia Chamber organizes a meeting to introduce the model of Strategic Partnerships Institutes

Asharqia Chamber, represented by the Training and Education Committee, organized a meeting aimed at introducing the model of Strategic Partnerships Institutes, in which the officials of the Saudi Center for International Strategic Partnerships explained that this model is centered on the private sector's participation in developing and monitoring the training process in the institutes and academies of Strategic Partnerships.

The meeting, which was held on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 and in which Eng. Nayef Al-Matrafi, Head of Strategic Partnership Development at the Center; and Muhammad Al-Shuaibi, Head of the Follow-up Department at the Center spoke; and Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, Vice Chairman of the Committee, moderated, explained that this type of training centers on the participation of the private sector through identifying the required skills, developing training curricula and quality methods, and participating in choosing the training services provider. The Technical and Vocational Training Corporation provides the training infrastructure, while the Human Resources Development Fund (HADAF) contributes to covering the costs of the training process, where all trainees in the institutes are employed by the partners from private sector and registered in the General Organization for Social Insurance from the first day of training and hired to work immediately after graduation from the institute. 

The meeting outlined the Center's goals which are supporting technology transfer programs in general and modern training techniques in particular; working on the localization of technical and vocational jobs in the private sector; working on increasing the contribution of the private sector through training Saudi cadres in qualitative and multiple disciplines; and enhancing the quality of technical and vocational training in the labor market through participation in attracting and deploying international expertise in technical training, where the Partnerships institutes provide Saudi youth with junior training in qualitative disciplines to meet the needs of strategic partners in different sectors.

The meeting cited the targeted sectors: food industries, tourism, hospitality, entertainment, mining, oil and gas, defense, military industries, industrial security, social services and many others.

The meeting discussed the strategic approaches of the Saudi Center for International Strategic Partnerships, the most important of which were: increasing the proportion of qualifying Saudi females in technical and vocational disciplines, contributing more in reducing unemployment in the Kingdom by consolidating the principle of junior employment in the training, aligning to the demand in the Saudi labor market through providing qualified Saudi cadres that contribute in nation building, increasing the private sector participation in the training and education process, ensuring the training quality and hence the outputs quality, attracting the private sector, and ensuring the continuity and sustainability of the Strategic Partnerships Institutes.