Training program for ex-military officers of the CIS armed forces

Location

Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

Duration

1991 - 1996

Donor

KfW Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (German Bank for Reconstruction), German Government

Budget

130.720.000 EUR

Description and Deliverables

Comprehensive TA project for human resource development: Training of Officers laid off from the CIS armed forces and support to their re-integration into civil careers in their home countries (mainly business and public administration).

Elaboration of a comprehensive training strategy for the former military staff and development of related curricula, covering a variety of fields in business, administration and science. Inter alia training programmes and courses were developed in the fields of market economy and technology, company formation/management, insurance, bookkeeping and accounting, marketing, finance and loans, foreign trade and public administration management,
Planning, organisation and procurement of about 800 training and re-training courses for app. 15,000 officers and military staff in garrisons of CIS-troops all over eastern Germany preparing them for re-entering civil life at home
Training of several hundred teachers for adult training and retraining and preparing them for teaching at adult training centres
Establishment of 5 model training centres in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Kiev and Alma-Ata and of 9 further training centres, including institutional strengthening and teaching capacity building, including establishment of practice firms

Services

Development of a training programme strategy for the preparation of the officers for civilian careers in business and public administration,
Course development: Curricula and teaching material design
Training: Assignment of German teaching staff to the initial courses to bridge the gap of expertise on the part of Russian teachers, selection and recruitment of Russian teachers, executing the training of trainers, monitoring fulfilment of international standards by local teaching staff
Establishment of practice firms for simulation of real enterprises’ business cases and training of local training staff including the simulation of relations with other enterprises, authorities and public administrations.
Training centre equipment planning, procurement (public tendering), installation, monitoring