Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) (No. 159)

Convention concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Persons (No. 159)

Currently there are 2 occupational rehabilitation centres in Latvia the Republican Rehabilitation Centre (RRC) and the Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Centre (VTRC) Alsviķi.

75. ILO Convention No. 159, 1983, concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons).

Trade, vocational and general secondary schools, as well as vocational training courses for people in vocational rehabilitation centres for the disabled, by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

Rehabilitation work of a comprehensive nature educational, psychological (trauma counselling), vocational for children affected by war.

(k) Promote vocational and professional rehabilitation, job retention and return to work programmes for persons with disabilities.

For school drop outs, non formal education programmes were mentioned, as were vocational rehabilitation and counsel ling.

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at ARCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, home outreach services and recreational activities.

(d) A mobile rehabilitation team, also established at the provincial level, which is available to provide additional rehabilitation and vocational services at the village and subdistrict levels, as required

And improved access to education and vocational training would serve to ameliorate their opportunities for rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

In the field of rehabilitation, similar Rehabilitation Centres (Public Law institutions) operate all over the country, aiming at the physical, functional, and social rehabilitation, as well as education, vocational training, planning and implementing programmes in the field of disability.

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at the RCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, a home outreach service and recreational activities.

beginning vocational, secondary vocational, higher vocational education

The Committee is also concerned at the lack of vocational training or rehabilitation programmes for those below 18 who have been detained.

As to the occupational integration of the disabled, Tunisia has ratified ILO Convention No. 159 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons).

Vocational training centres Vocational training placesa

a) Working with the disabled to facilitate rehabilitation, shelter modification, mainstreaming into the education system, learning support centres in schools, vocational training reskilling and access to credit

In partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs, ILO supported the establishment in Hebron of a vocational and rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities and special needs.

157. The compensatory allowance is a special entitlement granted to workers with decreased capacity for work if their remuneration decreases on account of their undergoing vocational rehabilitation.

The rehabilitation of the Centre for Adult Vocational Training in Dekwaneh, financed by UNDP and the Government of Lebanon and executed by ILO, was completed in 1997.

Vocational

In the area of technical cooperation, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) worked to develop human resources and create vocational training schemes at rehabilitation centres in recipient countries.

Vocational education establishments of vocational education (information of the CSD)

Higher vocational education in the country is performed on the basis of general secondary, beginning vocational and secondary vocational education, and colleges of higher vocational schools and in State institutions of higher vocational education, including private institutions.

Vocational workshops

In this context, the programme took steps to explore avenues by which UNRWA and the community based rehabilitation centres could further enhance the vocational training and employment of persons with disabilities.

postgraduate vocational training

Secondary vocational education.

Vocational modules IIa

Vocational modules IIIa

Intermediate vocational technical

117. Vocational guidance.

Vocational Secondary Education

Vocational technical schools

Vocational and technical

Post graduate Vocational

Vocational training courses

Vocational schools a

The following levels of vocational education have been established in the Latvian educational system primary vocational education secondary vocational education higher professional education.

It recommends that measures be taken to ensure that as few jobs as possible are sacrificed and that social protection and vocational rehabilitation programmes are guaranteed for persons who lose their jobs.

29. During the period under review, ILO technical cooperation projects assisted institution building in labour administration, employment services and occupational safety and health vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and small enterprise development.

Vocational and Technical Education

Vocational orientation and training

Secondary vocational technical schools