Center of Excellence For Leather Skill Bangladesh Ltd.

Driven by the needs of enormous skilled labor force and increased growth of the leather industry, a group of key industry stakeholders formed a formal committee as Industry Skill Council (ISC) with the facilitation of EC funded TVET Reform Project of ILO, an initiative of Government. Then the members of the ISC participated in a sector strategy formulation workshop to discuss and identify the ways to develop a skills development system for the leather sector. Centre of Excellence for Leather Skills Bangladesh, known as CoEL is one of the major outcomes of that workshop in an attempt to work for the improvement of labor skills of the workforce in leather sector.

CoEL is registered under section 29 of the companies act, 1994 as a not for profit organization in January 2010, which operates as a one stop solution for the leather industry offering a variety of services with core focus on skills development of the workforce, while building its own capacity through international accreditation and such. This is an industry led public private partnership (PPP) facilitated by EC Funded TVET Reform Project in order to enhance work place learning and productivity through improved skills of the employees.

It’s expected that COEL being the being the first private led skills development body it would be more market responsive and quick delivering the short term courses for priority occupation. Train the Trainer (TOT) is very much need for the sector. But creating trainers is no the job of private companies and not all companies can afford that. As a result, from the core of real need COEL is evolved which is set by a consortium of industrialists vis-à-vis Industry Skills Council (ISC) which is the platform of both public and private representatives.

Objectives of CoEL

• To operate as one stop solution for industry driven training, research, course curriculum development and other skills development events while building its own capacity through international accreditation, certification, public private partnership (PPP).
• To look after the policy & procedures, advocacy, and monitor industry skill development practices