Eritrea - Support to Technical Vocational Education and Training Project (STVET)

The proposed Support to Technical Vocational and Education Training Project (STVET) is designed to support the Government of the State of Eritrea (GoSE)’s commitment to improve equitable access, quality and relevance of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the country. The project will involve the extending, rehabilitation and equipping of three existing technical schools and equipping of three private technical schools. The outcome of the project is to increase the supply of high quality middle level technicians needed by the Eritrean economy. The key outputs of the project are to increase the number of graduates from existing TVET institutions from 750 in 2011 to 1300 in 2014; mainstream entrepreneurship training in TVET institutions and finally, institutionalize tracer studies to be undertaken by the Directorate of TVET, which will help measure the external efficiency of training systems. The project will be implemented over a five year period.