OSCE summer school guides Tajik young people on business management
(OSCE)Participants in a youth economic camp in Kulyab, Tajikistan, engage in role-playing to improve product marketing skills, 1 July 2004. (OSCE) Photo details
KULYAB, 13 July 2004 - More than 30 boys and girls attended a pioneering summer camp in the southern Tajik city of Kulyab, focusing on economic development and business management.
"Start and improve your business" was the motto of the 10-day youth camp, organized for students from southern Tajikistan by the Kulyab Field Office of the OSCE Center in Dushanbe, which ended last Saturday.
"The complex economic conditions in Tajikistan, the hard situation of labour migration and low level of wages prompted us to organize the summer school," said Bojidar Dimitrov, Head of the OSCE Centre's Kulyab Field Office.
Trainers from the International Labour Organization and professors from the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University developed a special interactive training programme during which students learned the basic legal norms of modern business, management, NGO establishment and co-operation with government and non-government institutions.
The OSCE Field Office in Kulyab has long been working on motivating students to participate in the political and economic development of the country. The fact that the idea for such an economy school came from participants of an earlier OSCE summer camp suggests that efforts have not been in vain.
About 80,000 boys and girls complete secondary education in Tajikistan every year but only 10,000 of them continue to high schools or technical institutions. The rest move on to the manufacturing or agricultural sector, or to the army.
"But almost all have this question in mind: How to start up a business?" added Mr Dimitrov.
"Start and improve your business" was the motto of the 10-day youth camp, organized for students from southern Tajikistan by the Kulyab Field Office of the OSCE Center in Dushanbe, which ended last Saturday.
"The complex economic conditions in Tajikistan, the hard situation of labour migration and low level of wages prompted us to organize the summer school," said Bojidar Dimitrov, Head of the OSCE Centre's Kulyab Field Office.
Trainers from the International Labour Organization and professors from the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University developed a special interactive training programme during which students learned the basic legal norms of modern business, management, NGO establishment and co-operation with government and non-government institutions.
The OSCE Field Office in Kulyab has long been working on motivating students to participate in the political and economic development of the country. The fact that the idea for such an economy school came from participants of an earlier OSCE summer camp suggests that efforts have not been in vain.
About 80,000 boys and girls complete secondary education in Tajikistan every year but only 10,000 of them continue to high schools or technical institutions. The rest move on to the manufacturing or agricultural sector, or to the army.
"But almost all have this question in mind: How to start up a business?" added Mr Dimitrov.