New Tools and Approaches for Implementing Training in Post-conflict Countries

The potential need and demand for education and training across developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including in post-conflict countries, is vast. In addition to the need for resources to support the many millions of primary, secondary, and postsecondary students currently in full-time education, there is a great need to support many other types of education and training as well -- to strengthen life-long learning programs, ¹ to provide in-service up-grading courses of all kinds for mid-career employees, to support government extension programs, and so on.

This paper suggests that the needs are so great that unless traditional face-to-face training methods can be greatly augmented with new ICT (information and communication technology) training techniques, it will be many decades before an adequate response to growing needs can be provided across the region. The efficient mechanization of as much training as possible is urgently called for.²

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