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Title:
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Pre-Training Assessment of Boat Building and Engine Maintenance in Malawi |
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Author:
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Kamdima, Harry Gerson; Banda, Lloyd Saidi; Makwinja, Franscico Daniel
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Abstract:
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Malawi despite having good fresh water lakes has over the years not ventured into boat building and engine maintenance training, a skill that is threatened to be lost on the labor market. At the mean time only seven people out of the fifty eight people who are in the industry have had professional training representing 13%. This then indicates 87% learnt how to build boats and maintain the engines on the job and informally. However looking at dangers associated with navigation and after subsequet calls from stake holders, Salima Technical College thought of getting people getting trained in the threatened field. Therefore TEVETA Research Office conducted a pre-training assessment on the viability of the training on the market and an assessment of the college to validate if it is well equipped to start the training. However the assessment indicates that there is no sustainable market for the trade in Malawi and therefore recommended the incorporation of boat building into carpentry and joinery and similarly engine maintenance into automobile mechanics and the training of the already existing labor force |
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Description:
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Despite Malawi being classified as one of the least developed countries in the world, the country is heavily endowed with the natural resources that are so unique.The largest of these resources is Lake Malawi which covers a third of the country.The lake 360 miles long and 52 miles wide, hence sometimes known as "Calendar Lake," (Ziljma 2012). The lake is known of being, third African's largest lake, huge fresh water lake, with good beaches, lies along the great lift valley, and shared by three countries.Besides Lake Malwi the country has three other lakes namely: Lake Kazuni located in Vwaza marsh, Lake Chiuta, a shalow lake located between Lake Chirwa and Lake Amaramba and Lake Chirwa located between Zomba Plateau and Mount Mulanje, only protected wetland and and inland drainage lake with numerous migrant birds; and lastly Lake Malombe, an ox-bow lake on Shire River |
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URI:
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http://www.ndr.mw:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/553
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Date:
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2012-02 |