By Lincoln DePradine
A number one Ontario-based analysis and consultancy agency – Dunn, Pierre, Barnett & Firm Canada Ltd. – is ready to start a serious Labour Market Mission in Guyana in early 2024, commissioned by the nation’s ministry of training. The examine goals to investigate the nationwide workforce, determine abilities gaps, and put together for rising financial sectors, together with oil and fuel, low-carbon know-how, digital growth, climate-resilient agriculture and ICT.
Dr. Justine C. Pierre, a director of the corporate and an ILO-trained labour statistician and researcher, expressed enthusiasm in main the challenge, highlighting the importance of such research as foundational for a rustic’s socio-economic planning and growth.
He additional emphasised that enterprise the analysis right now is essential to help Guyana’s transformation agenda as one of many fastest-growing world economies.
“These sorts of surveys are the formation of planning and creating a rustic,’’ Pierre informed The Caribbean Digital camera. “These surveys have to be carried out as a way to develop your nation.’’
The “Nationwide Expertise Audit Consultancy on Guyana Strengthening Human Capital By way of Schooling Mission’’ will help the training ministry and the Council for TVET – technical and vocational training and coaching – in creating a method for efficient nationwide labour market administration.
The challenge aligns with Guyana’s aim of understanding the abilities panorama, enhancing workforce capabilities, and making ready for investments in training and TVET.
The anticipated outcomes will profit the federal government, employers, and each nationwide and overseas employees. This initiative is pushed by the continued financial transformation in Guyana and the crucial to develop the required human capital for sustainable, inexperienced and inclusive development.
The challenge will contain a fast evaluation of Guyana’s present workforce, with the objectives of gaining a greater understanding of abilities calls for and extra provide, equipping the labour power with the required abilities, together with digital and socioemotional abilities; and, facilitating deliberate investments in secondary training and technical and vocational training and coaching.
The Canadian firm might be accountable for gathering and analyzing related statistical and labour market knowledge, in addition to conducting surveys amongst employers and nationwide establishments to determine labour shortages and out there abilities within the nation.
Moreover, the survey will help the introduction of a brand new curriculum for Grades 7 to 9, the supply of textbooks for Grades 7-11, coaching for educators on instructing college students with numerous wants, and the implementation of an educational management and managerial program for principals.
Dunn, Pierre, Barnett & Firm Ltd., in a information launch, mentioned it’s “dedicated to delivering a complete remaining report on the survey outcomes, offering insights on labour shortages, out there abilities, and concrete suggestions to reinforce the longer term abilities wants of Guyana’’.
The corporate’s staff for the Guyana project is led by Dr. Pierre and supported by esteemed professionals resembling Dr. Philomenia Harrison, retired Head of Statistics at CARICOM; Dr. Paulette Dunnpierre, CANTA and CARICOM, Regional knowledgeable on TVET; and Dr. Mark Bynoe, Economics, and Guyanese nationwide. They are going to undertake the biggest nationwide abilities audit ever carried out within the Caribbean area.
Upwards of 40 international locations, together with a number of Caribbean nations, have utilized the corporate’s providers. The international locations embody Belize, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Grenada, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Pierre expects different Caribbean international locations, and in addition the federal government of Canada, to observe Guyana’s instance by conducting labour market and abilities wants assessments to acquire correct knowledge on their populations.
“In response to the World Financial institution, you can not develop your nation with out doing a nationwide labour market evaluation. You can not do it. That’s the primary basis for growth,’’ mentioned Dr. Pierre. “Each nation which has developed, and any nation that wishes to develop, undertake these surveys.’’
