Technical and Vocational Skills Development

  • Study Report on the Preparedness for the Vocationalization of Secondary Education in Africa
    ADEA,  Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 16:09 

    The vocationalization of secondary education in Africa has the potential to succeed and achieve the intended outcome because the current vocational education profile in Africa can be corrected. Many people know about vocational education but with limited understanding; consequently, it operates with limited human and material resources. The preparedness for the vocationalization of secondary school education is evident because the footprint of vocationalization of secondary school education is visible across the continent.

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  • Lessons and recommendations from African countries in the management of COVID-19 in TVSD sub-sector
    ADEA,  Friday, November 11, 2022 - 14:18 

    The ADEA Inter-Country Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN-TVSD) initiated consultations with its country focal points between June 2020 and June 2021 to monitor and evaluate the responses of the ICQN’s member countries to the global health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in December 2019.

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  • Alternative Financing Mechanisms for TVSD in Africa: The Case of Kenya, Rwanda, and The Gambia
    ADEA,  Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 10:01 
    This report offers a comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of recent, current, and ongoing mechanisms for Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) financing in Kenya, Rwanda, and the Gambia It also examines the role of the private sector, particularly in the context of emerging national reforms and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    To meet the study's objectives, the following key questions were explored:
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    1. Rethinking the role of TVET in Future Work and Lifelong Learning, in light of Digitalization and the 4IR
      ADEA,  Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 11:03 

      This report provides a general snapshot of the digitalization of TVET and skills systems in a set of countries. The primary data are derived from a desktop literature review on 8 countries, namely Angola, Gabon, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda and a set of questions administered through a questionnaire to experts and practitioners in the TVET sectors of Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda.

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    2. Continuity and discontinuity in education and training systems in Africa
      ADEA,  Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 10:01 

      This study is the result of joint research that began in 2016 and was completed at the end of 2019. It is not the “end” in the sense that everything has been analysed and concluded, but rather it is the end of a stage that paves the way to other potential areas for joint work and coordinated investigations.

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