TY - GEN
T1 - Factors affecting the international training transfer for capacity development of road asset management in lao pdr
AU - Bounnak, A.
AU - Henry, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the financial support and providing information on the Project for Improvement of Road Management Capability in Lao PDR, as well as the kind cooperation of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Laos (MPWT-Laos) for providing information on the training of Road Management in Laos.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Lao PDR is a land-locked country surrounded by neighboring countries including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and China. Due to its geographic location, it has been a vision of Lao Government to develop road infrastructures and become a land-link country. There are obstacles, however, in extending the road network infrastructure development plan, one of which is to ensure sustainable infrastructure development. For many years, the Government of Lao PDR extends national road network to reach this vision. The human resources necessary to realize this development plan, however, are still not met. As such, international training transfer is viewed as one key element to address human resource deficiency to improve infrastructure development in Lao PDR. In this vein, Non-Government Organization (NGO) funding supports were secured and oversea training programs have been engaged. In the case of oversea training program, trainees are expected to transfer their knowledge on road asset management to contribute to the required critical number of human resources. Therefore, it becomes necessary to make clear the effectiveness of these training programs for sustainable development. This research, taking Lao PDR as a case study, aims to identify the influence of factors that affect the training transfer of trainees after they joined the Improvement on Road Management Capability training in Japan and Thailand between 2012 and 2017. An initial qualitative survey by personal interview was conducted by face to face interview with observation during discussion. The interviewees at least joined external training program once and are coming from six departments relevant to the project under Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT). The results from these interviews are beneficial for classifying the affecting factors of the training transfer on the sustainable road infrastructure development plan for Lao PDR.
AB - Lao PDR is a land-locked country surrounded by neighboring countries including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and China. Due to its geographic location, it has been a vision of Lao Government to develop road infrastructures and become a land-link country. There are obstacles, however, in extending the road network infrastructure development plan, one of which is to ensure sustainable infrastructure development. For many years, the Government of Lao PDR extends national road network to reach this vision. The human resources necessary to realize this development plan, however, are still not met. As such, international training transfer is viewed as one key element to address human resource deficiency to improve infrastructure development in Lao PDR. In this vein, Non-Government Organization (NGO) funding supports were secured and oversea training programs have been engaged. In the case of oversea training program, trainees are expected to transfer their knowledge on road asset management to contribute to the required critical number of human resources. Therefore, it becomes necessary to make clear the effectiveness of these training programs for sustainable development. This research, taking Lao PDR as a case study, aims to identify the influence of factors that affect the training transfer of trainees after they joined the Improvement on Road Management Capability training in Japan and Thailand between 2012 and 2017. An initial qualitative survey by personal interview was conducted by face to face interview with observation during discussion. The interviewees at least joined external training program once and are coming from six departments relevant to the project under Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT). The results from these interviews are beneficial for classifying the affecting factors of the training transfer on the sustainable road infrastructure development plan for Lao PDR.
KW - International training program
KW - Road asset management
KW - Training transfer
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-8079-6_198
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-8079-6_198
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85104154204
SN - 9789811580789
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 2159
EP - 2168
BT - EASEC16 - Proceedings of the 16th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 2019
A2 - Wang, Chien Ming
A2 - Kitipornchai, Sritawat
A2 - Dao, Vinh
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 2019
Y2 - 3 December 2019 through 6 December 2019
ER -