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ILO hails Kikwete move on employment studies centre
2008-05-08 10:03:20
By Correspondent Michael Haonga
The international community has hailed President Jakaya Kikwete for his zeal to create employment for Tanzanians by coming up with seed money for the establishment of the first centre in Africa to deal with employment studies.
This was said yesterday in Dar es Salaam by International Labour Organization (ILO) office director Jurgen Schwettmann for the East African Region at a meeting that brought together labour sector stakeholders.
They were drawn from the government, institutions of higher education, civil society and non-governmental organizations.
Closing the one-day meeting convened for the purpose of gathering inputs for the establishment of the first ever centre of its kind, his deputy, Alexio Musindo, told the participants that ILO would avail funds for establishing the centre.
He said details on the establishment of the Tanzania Centre for Employment Studies (TCES), as already proposed in the National Employment Creation Programme, would be thrashed out by a team of experts that would be formed from the meeting participants.
Objectives of the TCES have been stipulated as including undertaking ``... original rigorous research that would deepen understanding and widen awareness of labour and employment problems and challenges.``
Speaking to `The Guardian` in an interview at the meeting, a resource person, Professor Reza Kibria from Griffin University, Australia, said President Jakaya Kikwete had played a pivotal role in matters pertaining to employment creation support.
President Kikwete has vowed to create employment for his people to the tune of 1,000,000 in the first five years of his term in office.
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