The High Impact Tourism Training (HITT) was a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme implemented by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV). It targeted informal workers from the tourism sector, notably women and youth, unskilled and semi-skilled workers in seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia: among them, Nepal. Through innovative solutions, the programme aimed to provide vocational training in tourism related activities to workers from the informal sector, women and youths - who usually had limited access to formal education - in order to increase their employability and income. After drawing the contours of the TVET sector and listing the main challenges to education in Nepal, the article shows how the HITT initiative chose to address them. Based on quantitative and qualitative evidence, we show that the strategy of intervention rests principally on two pillars: the introduction of active learning methods, and close collaboration with the private sector at every stage of the process, from the analysis of the sector and needs, to the design of the training, to the implementation. The article further dwells on the potentialities, limits and replicability of the HITT programme in Nepal.

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尼泊尔高影响力旅游培训（HITT）计划

高影响力旅游培训（HITT）是由荷兰发展组织（SNV）实施的技术和职业教育与培训（TVET）计划。它针对撒哈拉以南非洲和亚洲七个国家（其中包括尼泊尔）旅游业的非正式工人，特别是妇女和青年，非技术和半技术工人。该方案旨在通过创新的解决方案，向非正规部门的工人，妇女和青年（通常受正规教育机会有限）提供与旅游有关的职业培训，以增加其就业能力和收入。在勾勒出TVET部门的轮廓并列出了尼泊尔教育的主要挑战之后，本文说明了HITT倡议如何选择应对这些挑战。根据定量和定性证据，我们表明，干预策略主要基于两个支柱：引入主动学习方法，以及在过程的每个阶段（从对部门和需求的分析到培训的设计）与私营部门的紧密合作，实施。本文进一步探讨了HITT计划在尼泊尔的潜力，局限性和可复制性。