Actions – VET Toolbox

We deliver our services through the VET Toolbox partner agencies and their networks. Since 2022, we focus on providing opportunity-driven actions in 11 selected Sub-Saharan African countries. We help improve local benefits of European investments through improved availability of skilled manpower, ensuring maximum employment impact. These actions focus on the following sectors:

Digital

Climate and energy

Climate and energy

Transport and logistics

Construction

Agriculture

Tourism and hospitality

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From 2017 to 2022, we delivered services to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia. They included:

• Technical assistance, building up VET system capacities.
• Funding of innovative projects promoting inclusion in VET and labour markets.
• Knowledge exchange activities aiming to influence changes in VET systems: twinning and mentoring partnerships, knowledge products, events.

The initial phase of implementation has yielded significant achievements, as highlighted below:

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Opportunity-driven actions: from investments to employment opportunities (2022-2024)

Request-based technical support (2017-2022)

Funding of innovative pilot projects (2017-2022)

Twinning and mentoring partnerships (2019-2022)

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Management of training centres (Senegal)

Competence based education and training (Ghana, 2018)

Implementation of apprenticeship laws

Innovative Approach to Inclusion of Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Youth, Particularly Young Women, into Employment Opportunities through VET Outreach Program

Increased employment opportunities for vulnerable and disadvantaged youth groups in Pakistan

Improving access to VET and employability among the marginalized and vulnerable youth in Mandera County

Enhancing vocational education and training service provision for women, youths and vulnerable groups in South Sudan

TVET for all through public-private partnerships in Zimbabwe

Youth with Complex Disabilities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Learn, Work and Earn!

Future Movers Programme: an innovative VET ecosystem promoting increased and certain employability among youth IDPs in post-conflict Marawi

Jobs for Youth: bridging the gap between VET and employment for street children and disadvantaged youth

Identification of new occupational profiles

Development of a comprehensive national qualification framework

E-learning course “gender and disability mainstreaming for TVET Institutions”

Reforming the VET system

In-service TVET teacher training module “Curricula Adaptation for Disadvantaged Individuals”

Strengthen the sectorial roundtables strategy

Digital maturity model for SMEs (Cambodia)

Reforming the structure of TVET

Digital TVET consultation platform

Mobile application for job service officers at TVET institutions

Implementation of TREE methodology (Training for Rural Economic Empowerment)

Organizational development of three Sector Skills Councils

Local employment and labour market analysis

Improve quality of VET for persons with disabilities

Promotion of the employability of vulnerable young people in VET and inclusion of innovative services within the vocational training centres

Vulgarization of the new TVET law

Modern teaching methodology for Industry 4.0

Management of training centres (Burkina Faso)

Institutional maturity model for TVET colleges

Inspiring Somaliland and Central and South Somalia (CSS) Youth through skills training and creation of employment opportunities

Support project to strengthen the employability and professional integration of vulnerable young people in Pointe-Noire

Digital maturity model for SMEs (Ghana)

AGEVEC: Academy for heavy and commercial vehicles

Skills development in the sustainable construction and ICT sector

Rural electrification through solar-powered mini-grids

Skills 4 Riders project

Cashew nut project

Management of training centres (Mali)

Organizational development of the Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Council

Strengthening the ongoing VET and labour market reform programme

Quality evaluation regimes and frameworks used for vocational colleges as benchmarking for advancing countries’ standards

Career Guidance, Curriculum Development & PPP’s

Accreditation of training programmes

Management of training centres (Vietnam)

Competence based education and training (Ghana, 2019)

Gender and disability mainstream for VET institutions

Application of labour market analysis

Gender mainstreaming for TVET Institutions

Organizational development and capacity building on modern pedagogical and didactic skills.

Matching VET and labour market

Gender and disability mainstream for VET institutions

National workshop on public-private partnerships in VET

Analysis of labour market information practice in Nigeria

Development of occupational standards (Togo)

Improve private sector engagement in TVET and outcomes of TVET

Competence based training for instructors

Responding to skills needs in construction, logistics, hotels/catering, and digital technology

Development of occupational standards (Mongolia)

Employment and labour market analysis

Promoting demand-driven skills in e-waste management and recycling

Agricultural skills enhancement programme

Enabling youth empowerment in solar energy

Enhancing commercial farming in the Shire valley

Support for training and professional integration in the wood, maintenance and ecotourism sectors

Digital room for electronics and telecom training

Skills 4 Transport

Tool for the assessment of training needs

Capacity building on labour market analysis

Training for management of training centres

Improve the effectiveness of the Malaysian VET sector’s engagement with the private sector

Diagnostic assessment of the current apprenticeship system and development of a reform roadmap

Capacity development and advice to conduct “sector employment studies”

Creating a TVET Network for synergistic collaboration: strengthening private sector engagement and aligning VET with labor market demands

Development of training materials for domestic work

Development of accreditation standards

Development of a comprehensive National Qualification Framework (NQF)

Compare and align the Vietnam Qualifications Framework with the UK and European ones

Development of in-service training

Improving VET and employment in the CCI sector

Development of guidelines and assessment of methodology for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in TVET provision

Support with public-private dialogue (including international partnerships) and pilot master classes

Support with the development of curiculum for domestic work

Development of analytical and planning capacities on labour market analyses

Support with a case study and the development of a mentorship program for female students

Improvement of quality assurance of VET via international accreditation standards, processes and partnerships

Online training analysis, development of quality assurance guidelines and capacity training for technologically driven learning

Skills gaps identification and capacity building of artisans

Support with the establishment of a federation (forestry)

Enhance labour market analysis, training quality and management skills of the Vocational Center

Support the development of a business model leading to steady income generation and funding

Capacity building of staff of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security

Gap analysis of apprenticeships schemes and recommendations on their design and delivery

Support with the development of a curriculum for domestic work

Mentoring partnership between the UK (Hertford Regional College) and a cluster of colleges in Vietnam

Mentoring partnership between the UK (South Eastern Regional College and Dudley College) and Pakistan

Mentoring partnership the UK between (South West College) and Mauritius

Mentoring partnership between the UK (Belfast Metropolitan College) and Botswana

Mentoring partnership between the UK (South West College and Edinburgh College) and Ghana

Mentoring partnership between the UK (Isle of Wight College) and South Africa

Mentoring partnership between the UK (Herford Regional College) and Sri Lanka

Twinning between Senegal and Niger

Twinning between Senegal and Cape Verde

Jang Ban: Improving skills and employability in Senegal’s eco-construction sub-sector

Digital room for electronics and telecom training

Opportunity-driven actions

Digital

Senegal

LuxDev

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Responding to skills needs in construction, logistics, hotels/catering, and digital technology

Opportunity-driven actions

Construction, Digital, Tourism and hospitality

DRC

Enabel

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Skills development in the sustainable construction and ICT sector

Opportunity-driven actions

Climate and energy, Construction, Digital

Côte d'Ivoire

Expertise France

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Request-based technical support (2017-2022)

We offered technical assistance through short-term interventions that build VET system capacities.

Between 2017 and 2022, VET Toolbox successfully implemented technical interventions in eligible countries. Each intervention, requested by public authorities, social partners, and private institutions, has placed an emphasis on providing expertise to support systemic change, through capacity-building key stakeholders, developing tools, and advising on strategic planning.

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Assistance technique sur demande (2017-2022)

Depuis 2017, VET Toolbox a mis en œuvre avec succès des interventions techniques dans les pays éligibles. Chaque intervention, demandée par les autorités publiques, les partenaires sociaux et les institutions privées, a mis l'accent sur la fourniture d'une expertise pour soutenir un changement systémique, en renforçant les capacités des parties prenantes clés, en développant des outils et en conseillant sur la planification stratégique.

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Supporting the positive effects of European investments (2020-2024)

We implement opportunity-driven actions in 11 Sub-Saharan African countries accompanying European investments to help improve local benefits (e.g., jobs, income, local value chains) by addressing the skills gap.

We deliver demand-driven skills development and VET, catering to investment needs in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, through targeted skills development and VET programmes.

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Funding of innovative pilot projects (2017-2022)

We funded 11 pilot projects that promote inclusion of disadvantages groups in VET.

They focused on youth experiencing or at risk of exclusion, such as women (including young mothers), youth exposed to violence or extremist groups or with a criminal background, internally displaced people and returnees, youth from the poorest households and rural/remote areas, youth with (complex) disabilities, and other vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

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Actions axées sur les opportunités : des investissements de l’UE aux opportunités d’emploi (2020-2024)

Nous menons des actions de développement des compétences et de formation professionnelle axées sur la demande, répondant aux besoins d’investissement dans certains pays d’Afrique subsaharienne, par le biais de programmes ciblés de développement des compétences et de formation professionnelle.

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Financement de projets pilotes innovants (2017-2022)

Ils se sont concentrés sur les jeunes en situation d'exclusion ou à risque d'exclusion, tels que les femmes (y compris les jeunes mères), les jeunes exposés à la violence ou à des groupes extrémistes ou ayant un passé criminel, les personnes déplacées à l'intérieur du pays et les rapatriés, les jeunes des ménages les plus pauvres et des zones rurales/éloignées, les jeunes ayant des handicaps (complexes) et d'autres personnes vulnérables et défavorisées.

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Twinning and mentoring partnerships (2019-2022)

LuxDev and the British Council are working to support the development of TVET in different countries through various partnership agreements. As part of VET Toolbox, LuxDev used a South-South approach to match countries with similar contexts and improve the management of vocational training centres, focusing on public-private collaboration to improve the quality and relevance of training. The British Council set up intercontinental Mentoring Partnerships, bringing together local institutions with a UK TVET college, to focus on employer engagement and bring training programmes closer to the needs of industry.

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Partenariats de jumelage et de mentorat (2019-2022)

LuxDev et le British Council travaillent pour soutenir le développement de l'EFTP dans différents pays à travers des accords de partenariat. Dans le cadre de VET Toolbox, LuxDev a utilisé une approche Sud-Sud pour mettre en relation des pays présentant des contextes similaires et améliorer la gestion des centres de formation professionnelle, en se concentrant sur la collaboration public-privé pour améliorer la qualité et la pertinence de la formation. Le British Council a mis en place des partenariats de mentorat intercontinentaux, mettant en lien des institutions locales avec un collège britannique d'EFTP, pour se concentrer sur l'engagement des employeurs et rapprocher les programmes de formation des besoins de l'industrie.

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