Crown Prince launches Human Capability Development Program

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched the Human Capability Development Program (HCDP) in line with Vision 2030. 

These initiatives include the following:  

- Enhancing expansion in kindergartens that will contribute to developing children’s capacities in an early age, and to developing their personal skills. 

- Providing the career guidance and counseling initiative for students to join the labor market. This initiative aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to map out their personal development plan, which will help prepare them to join the labor market locally and globally. 

- Other initiatives aim at upskilling and reskilling citizens through providing lifelong learning opportunities to increase employment rates for citizens and enable entrepreneurs and innovators for the future labor market locally and globally. 

- The program will aim to achieve several goals, including increasing kindergarten enrollment from 23% to 90% and placing two Saudi universities among the top 100 universities in the world by 2030. 

Through its initiatives, the program will enhance the skills necessary to compete in the 21st century. These will include creative thinking, data analysis and technical skills. It will also enhance emotional and social skills. HCDP seeks to enhance national capabilities competitiveness to grasp the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 

The HCDP initiatives will provide vast opportunities that will pave the way for building globally competitive generations.