Hans Christiaan Haan is a development economist with
more than 20 years experience in micro- and small
enterprise development. He started his career with
the ILO in Southern Africa and Central America (1980-85),
working on informal sector surveys and policies. After
some years at the Tropical Institute in Amsterdam,
he became the Chief Technical Advisor of the ILO Training
for Rural Gainful Employment project that introduced
and further developed the community-based training
in the Philippines (1990-93). Subsequently he headed,
on behalf of the Dutch 'appropriate technology' NGO
TOOL, ILO's Farm Implements and Tools (FIT) Program
that developed innovative approaches for support to
small metal workshops and food-processors in Africa
(1993-96). Haan is currently working as an independent
consultant. The ILO Training Center (Turin) has just
published his Training for work in the informal
sector: new evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa,
and he is now working on a similar study for West-Africa
which will explore the scope for linkages between
traditional apprenticeship training and more structured
forms of technical skills training. The ILO IPEC program
in South-East Asia (Bangkok) recently published his
Rural skills training to combat worst forms of
child labor including trafficking.
