Eenhana Vocational Training Centre (EVTC) Brief History
In October 1996, the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, through then Ministry of Higher Education, Vocational Training, Science and Technology, conducted a feasibility study to explore the possibility of financing the construction of the Eenhana Vocational Training Centre.
The completion of the study was followed by political instability alongside the Namibia/Angola border that forced many international non-governmental organisations and agencies, including the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, to withdraw technical and financial support to development ptojects in the region.
The Ministry of Education took over the project to construct the Eenhana Vocational Training Centre (EVTC). EVTC officially opened its doors in May 2011. The centre conducts its operations under the realm of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) Act, No. 1 of 2008, which makes provision for the management and control of all state-owned vocational training centres to be devolved upon the Namibia Training Authority, until such time that these centres, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the NTA, are transformed into self-reliant vocational education and training providers.
With generous assistance from the EU and the German Government through a GIZ administered project titled the training hub EVTC was identified in 2013 to serve alongside Valombola and Nakayale VTCs as part of a Training HUB centre to pilot the development and advancement of TVET in the country with an enhanced specialty and levels of training. As part of this engagement Eenhana was identified as a center of specialization in Plumbing and Civil services.
Timeline
May 2011
Officially opening
The Ministry of Education took over the project to construct the Eenhana Vocational Training Centre (EVTC). EVTC officially opened its doors in May 2011.
May 2011
Jul 16, 2014
1st Graduation Ceremony
The Eenhana Vocational Training Centre (EVTC) has conferred 214 trainees with certificates in five trades. The Centre’s first ever graduation ceremony saw the conferment of Level 1, 2 and 3 certificates from five trades.
November 20, 2015
2015 – 2nd Graduation Ceremony
The Eenhana Vocational Training Centre-EVTC held its second graduation
November 20, 2015
2016
Inauguration of Administration block
The Eenhana Vocational Training Centre Inauguration of Administration block, bulk store and 2 blocks of classes
Oct 3, 2016
3rd Graduation Ceremony
Oct 3, 2016
5 October 2017
Inauguration of the Production Unit
Eenhana VTC Production Unit was officially inaugurated by the Minister of High Education Training and Innovation Honourable Dr. Iitah Kandji Murangi.
Oct 9, 2017
Hostel Ground Breaking Ceremony
A ground-breaking ceremony of the hostel was held at the centre. The groundbreaking ceremony was preceded by the inauguration of the N$3.2 million trainee production centre by Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation Itah Kandjii-Murangi.
Oct 9, 2017
25 September 2019
4th Graduation Ceremony
Our Core Business
As one of seven formerly state-owned vocational training centres now under the supervision of the Namibia Training Authority, Eenhana VTC has as its core business the training of young technically inclined Namibians in key vocational and technical areas. To this end, it focuses on offering:- Newly- designed unit standards and qualifications under the COMPETENCY-BASED Education and Training (CBET) curricula;
- A variety of training and UP-SKILLING courses aimed at enhancing the technical and entrepreneurial skills of members of the community in which it operates;
- Namibia Qualifications Authority-accredited formal courses that are listed on the National Qualifications Framework, based on identified demands and resulting in an increase of highly qualified artisans and professional in various trade- or professional areas for the labour market; and
- A variety of informal skills- and entrepreneurial training based on requested and established demands, ultimately leading to improved local and regional entrepreneurial development;
The purpose of the Production Unit:
- To take in trainees for job attachment during community project engagements.
- Serve as incubator for activating graduate academic skills.
- Take charge of project of community projects and answer to the needs of the local industry.
- SELF- SUSTAINING initiative to fund infant/minor centre development project.