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The Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) in collaboration with the Economic Development Board (EDB) has established the Skills Development Support Scheme for Foreign Direct Investment (SDSS for FDI) to support foreign investors in the training of their employees. The availability of necessary skills is one of the determining factors in the foreign investment decision-making process. 

The SDSS aims at creating a more agile and targeted skills development response to foreign investment. This scheme adopts a co-funding philosophy. The HRDC will provide funding for the eligible applicant for up to 80% of the total amount disbursed on training and the remaining 20% will be incurred by the applicant (in cash or in kind).

The objectives of this scheme are to:

• support citizens of Mauritius or spouse of a citizen of Mauritius for workforce development to attract direct foreign investments.
• assist in mounting skills development programmes with foreign investors.
• encourage development of higher levels of technical expertise and specialisation to help boost our skills base.

 Criteria and Conditions

1. The scheme is applicable for projects with skills development component falling under economic and industry sectors being promoted by the EDB;
2. To qualify for this scheme, the investment project should be registered with the EDB;
3. The course needs to be approved/accredited by MQA/HEC;
4. This scheme adopts a co-funding philosophy (in cash or in kind). All costs have to be directly related to training. The HRDC will provide funding for the eligible applicant up to 80% of the total amount disbursed on the training;
5. This scheme is limited to enterprises who wish to train their employees who are citizens of Mauritius or spouse of a citizen of Mauritius;
6. Training can be conducted locally or abroad, by local or foreign resource persons;
7. The scheme is not within the levy ceiling of the enterprise;
8. The applicant shall benefit from the scheme within the first two years as from the date of payment of trade fees;
9. There is no limit to the number of employees to be trained;
10. An enterprise can benefit from a maximum of Rs2m during the two years;
11. The training project needs be approved by the SDSS for FDI Technical Committee prior to start of training; and
12. Signature of Project Collaborative Agreement between HRDC and the participating enterprise after approval of project.

Click here to Download the Career Guidance Toolkit for Senior Educators

In order to empower Senior Educators to better deliver career guidance information to their students, the HRDC in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Careers Guidance Service had conducted a series of training for Senior Educators from both public and private secondary schools.

This highly interactive workshop-style training programme was launched in 2017 and training was conducted in groups of 80 educators from all zones. At the end of the training programme, the Senior Educators were required to work out a customised career education plan for their respective school.

An innovative element was added for the third training session held in 2019 whereby a Career Guidance Toolkit was developed by the HRDC in collaboration with the Careers Guidance Service and a resource person from Curtin University, Mauritius. The toolkit comprises different exercises and activities related to skills development and information sharing to support Senior Educators in the development of their career guidance plan. The toolkit was validated by the Senior Educators during the training session.

Awareness sessions were organised in September 2020 with rectors from public and private secondary schools where the Career Guidance Toolkit was disseminated and launched.

The HRDC also collaborated with the Rodrigues Regional Assembly and Careers Guidance Service of the Ministry of Labour, Human Resource Development and Training to organise a two-day training on Careers Education, Information, Advice, Management and Guidance for 45 Senior Educators/Educators from secondary schools and TVET institutions in Rodrigues. The training was held from 23 - 24 November 2022 at Cotton Bay Hotel, Rodrigues.

Rectors were invited on the first day of the workshop to gain an overview of the career guidance toolkit. The toolkit was distributed to all schools in Rodrigues.

The objectives of the Career Guidance Toolkit are to:

• empower the Senior Educators to provide career education and career information to their students;
• plan and devise a customised career education plan for their schools using the toolkit as a guide; and
• provide different exercises and activities related to skill development and information sharing to support Senior Educators.

The Careers Guidance Service will ensure the implementation of the Career Guidance toolkit during their visits to schools throughout the year.

Background

Skills development being one of the pillars to improve our readiness to embrace AI, the HRDC has established the AI skills development support programme with a view to build a strong pool of in-country talent.

Under this programme collaborative projects between local and/or international institutions can be mounted for effective transfer of knowledge and build local capabilities.  

This umbrella programme includes a wide spectrum of instruments supporting skills development initiatives, including but not restricted to, the following components:

• Projects to expose university students to the new technologies to smoothen their entrance in the place of work, through linkage with foreign universities and /or appropriate technology providers;
• Fresh graduates and mid-level professionals to acquire specialist, expert or mastery-level competencies through selected courses;
• Professionals to have the opportunities to deepen their specialist-level competencies, through selected courses;
• Selected building blocks of AI skills development as continuous process in ongoing university programmes;
• Scholarships to follow university AI undergraduate and post-graduate degrees;
• Needs-driven projects by industry associations to start building human capital in AI;
• Train-the-trainer programmes to build capacity at local universities as a basis to promote mainstreaming AI;
• Train professionals at industries who can in turn act as mentors to university students.

Students, fresh graduates, existing professionals, lecturers/trainers, researchers are targeted beneficiaries. Proposals can emanate from groups of enterprises, industry associations, public and private universities amongst others.  An indicative template for submission of proposals can be downloaded here.

Objectives of the programme

The broad objectives of the programme are to:

• proactively train a critical number of people on smart technologies;
• expand and develop new AI programmes to create a pipeline of talents;
• enable and empower youth to develop their skills in smart technologies; and
• support enterprises through skills development to adopt AI applications.

Download template for submission of project proposals