PEIE launches ‘Azeemati’ strategy for Omani skills development in industry

FROM P13 motivated industry-ready Omani workforce. It is quite a pleasant coincidence that both PDO and NTF are adopting significant strategies to develop Omani workforce in various sectors and we, PEIE, could gel with their ambitions.”

“There are many stakeholders giving the manufacturing sector a great opportunity,” Al Hasani said, adding: “I urge the industrialists not to undermine this great opportunity to get highly trained people. They should simply grab this opportunity and benefit from it.”

The Azeemati initiative was then launched at the seminar in line with social responsibility framework and PEIE’s keenness to actively contribute to solve the challenges faced by jobseekers. PEIE has made great efforts in order to develop a mechanism and create job opportunities for young job seekers in the various industrial estates pertaining to PEIE. Azeemati programme comprises foundation period to provide the trainees with initial skills, for instance in English language, work ethics, health and safety, and information technology.

In this regard, PEIE signed a threeyear Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to fund a training programme for jobseekers registered in the Public Authority of Manpower Register. The programme will continue for a period of 12 months in a specialised institute. A Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between PEIE and the National Training Fund (NTF) to facilitate full time employment of trainees. The MoU aims at facilitating employment of trainees on full-time basis following successful completion of their training programme.

The National Training Fund shall finance the training programme following allocation of the trainees to the companies operating in the various fields of manufacturing and other fields in the industrial estates pertaining to PEIE in the various governorates of the Sultanate.