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BACKGROUND 2:
Corporate HRD: Scope and Strategies
Supporting Sustainable Economic Development through Labour Market-Oriented
Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) and Corporate Human Resource
Development (HRD)
Dr. Reinhard Klose, InWEnt
As an organization of international cooperation, InWEnt seeks to contribute to a secure and
sustainable future. We are convinced that – with the joint efforts of all participants – a sustainable
global development can be achieved. Our capacity-building activities through human resource
development represents our commitment to this endeavour.
We have learned in the past decades of InWEnt’s (and its predecessor organizations) mission, that:
– sustainable economic development and global growth requires well-trained people,
competent institutions, and mutual learning processes between industrialized countries
and developing countries, and secondly,
– that access to knowledge has become the key to development, growth, and the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Therefore, InWEnt has kept a strong focus on cooperation with the private sector worldwide.
The strategic importance of business partners – not only in TVET programmes – is reflected in
the fact that almost 60% of InWEnt activities are business-oriented and directed towards small-
and medium-sized enterprises, business associations, and chambers of commerce. Additionally,
we cooperate with the productive sector in the framework of Public-Private Partnerships.
We also believe that the growing importance and global power of the productive sector
assigns them a growing responsibility for socially and ecologically responsible behaviour. In the
last few years, corporations have assumed a key role in shaping the globalization process. But
they also have gained a strong self-interest in assuming responsibility due to their need for:
– well educated, skilled, internationally trained and flexible employees,
– stable market conditions,
– a fair, transparent, and secure investment climate,
– a positive image for their customers, and
– the long-term availability of non-substitutable resources.
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