Touching Lives in Asia

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Mongolia
Skills Upgrading
for Civil Servants

Best-practice management and productivity training of 90 civil servants and the development of training manuals for the various branches of the Mongolian civil service.

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China
Enhancing Vocational
Education Framework

186 Liaoning educators trained in education management and teaching pedagogies to create a core group of model vocational colleges for other institutions in the province.

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Bangladesh
Skills Upgrading for
Eye Care Professionals

Training for 345 eye care professionals in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in specialist surgical techniques and frontline identification of refractive error, a leading cause of avoidable blindness amongst children and young adults.

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Thailand
Training Master
Teachers of English

50 teachers trained as master teachers through a Postgraduate Diploma programme in Applied Linguistics; they will transfer their skills to 3,000 primary school teachers. A similar programme for secondary school teachers is underway.

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Philippines & Vietnam
Water Filtering Kits

One thousand portable water-filtering kits to provide clean water for families affected by Typhoon Ketsana in September 2009.

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Indonesia
Bank Indonesia
Learning Centre

This programme supports 29 participants to become effective trainers in banking supervision and monetary policy. They will impart their knowledge to a further 60 trainers.

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Singapore
Temasek Foundation Centre
for Trade & Negotiations

Over 140 participants from ASEAN, Bangladesh, China, Maldives, Nepal and the rest of Asia, attended programmes at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, on international trade negotiation, intellectual property rights, anti-dumping issues and countervailing duty laws.