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We hear a lot about “diversity”, “equal opportunities” or “leaving no one behind”. But what does it mean? And what does it imply for the vocational education and training (VET) sector? Nadège Riche introduced us to the key concepts of inclusion and explained how to find out strategies to establish inclusive VET centres, so socially disadvantaged groups, such as girls and women, persons with disabilities, persons living in remote areas, or people below the poverty lines, can access education as well.

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Answers by Nadège Riche: Our speaker Nadège Riche answered the pending questions that came up during the webinar. Find her answers here.

Extra documentation:

• Éducation, Formation professionnelle et Emploi (AFD)
• I am employable – Creating access to technical and vocational education for young people with disabilities (Judith Baart & Anneke Maarse)

The British Council delivered an EU VET Toolbox regional seminar on ‘Private Sector Engagement in Skills Development in South Asia’ on 11-13 December 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal. This by-invitation event was limited to 60 delegates and brought together key stakeholders from policy and practice, including employers, from across the region and beyond to explore shared challenges and practical solutions to engaging employers in skills development.

Although the five countries are different in terms of their starting points and their economic and institutional framework contexts, they all face the same challenge: designing a VET system that supports economic growth and makes the country future-proof. As a consequence, not only the policy framework and the institutional design of VET, but also the acceptance of VET by the private sector is fundamental to ensuring a successful and sustainable system. The private sector is taken to mean both employers, who may be acting in a purely commercial capacity or who may be fulfilling a corporate social responsibility policy, and private, for-profit, training providers.

Only a policy framework which promotes an active participation of the different stakeholders in VET, such as the government, the private sector, educators as well as participants, determines whether VET is a viable and attractive option – for young people as well as for economies.

The specific objectives of the seminar were:

• To analyse private sector engagement in VET in the five countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
• To provide a global perspective on the current opportunities and challenges for private sector engagement in skills development.
• To derive transnational policy recommendations to strengthen the role of the private sector and, thus, contribute to skill development in the region.
• To showcase UK, international and regional expertise.
• To showcase VET Toolbox project achievements to date and build engagement with the project in South Asia.

Would you like to know more? Read the post-implementation report.

Around 125 stakeholders from 31 African countries composed by officials from public and private sectors (Min.Education, Chambers), next to directors of public/private Vocational training centers, participated in the second regional workshop organized by IIEP-Pôle de Dakar, LuxDev and IFEF in Nairobi on 18-20 June 2019, entitled “Improving quality management in TVET systems for the successful training-to-employment transition of Africa’s youth”.

Important topics such as Public Private Partnerships, how to mobilize the private sector with CNQ, daily management of Vocational training centers, renewed apprenticeship, key performance indicators, job insertion, statistics and surveys were on the programme of this 3 days workshop and lead to recommendations which PEFOP, IFEF, LuxDev will take up from here.

Would you like to know more? Read the post implementation report.

From 19 to 21 March 2018, the VET Toolbox, through LuxDev, participated in a regional seminar to exchange and strengthen public-private partnerships (PPP) in vocational education in Africa. Over three days, participants worked to:

• Enable key players in VET from 18 African countries to share their experiences to strengthen the quality and performance of the public-private partnership in their sector.
• Strengthen the dialogue between public and private sector actors.
• Stimulate the networking approach by sharing practical experiences.
• Deepen the practical and functional understanding of crucial aspects of PPP development through sessions focused on current sub-themes for African countries engaged in the renovation of their vocational training system.
• Produce a summary document.

More than 100 participants from 18 African countries were involved. The regional seminar was a collaboration between LuxDev, PEFOP (IIPE Pole de Dakar) and IFEF.