Skills Development Project

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The objective of the Skills Development Project is to improve access to quality and demand responsive vocational training. There are three components to the project, the first component being delivery of quality and relevant vocational training. This component seeks to strengthen the Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system through interventions aimed at improving quality and relevance of training delivery in eight selected priority occupations and seven selected vocational training centers. It seeks to strengthen the capacity of the TVET system to align training offerings with employer demands for technical and catalytic skills, raise the quality of service delivery and increase the employability and performance of training graduates. The second component is the TVET system strengthening. This component will monitor and evaluate training delivery, in particular the implementation and performance of the SDP; and inform strategic policy decisions and policy reforms by providing sound analyses concerning key aspects of the training system and the labor market. Finally, the third component is the rapid skills delivery. The key objective of this component is to reduce skills gaps by rapidly increasing the supply of skills in high demand in the labor market. The instrument which will be used to achieve this objective is a Skills Development Facility (SDF) that will provide sub-grants to eligible applicants on a competitive basis for the purpose of raising the quality and volume of their training in demonstrated areas of skills shortages.