Skills 21 – Empowering citizens for inclusive and sustainable growth

The project builds on the earlier Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Project, funded by the EU, which successfully established new systems for skills development in Bangladesh, including reforms in the formal TVET system. However, the nascent National Skills Development System (NSDS) still needs strengthening, promotion, adoption/adaption, and replication by stakeholders. The Skills 21 project aims at strengthening the NSDS by continuing reforming the system and improving the national qualifications frameworks. It works with TVET institutions to introduce the entire reform package of new quality assured programmes, newly trained instructors and management and services for career guidance and job placement. The project aims also to support alliances between companies and relevant training providers to develop and implement demand-driven education and training programmes. In doing so, it places specific emphasis on the transition to a greener, more sustainable economy. The Skills 21 Project provides inputs for the creation of adequate opportunities to integrate migration-related approaches in skills development systems and assist in the implementation of the policy for (a) skilling and reintegrating migrants returning form the destination countries, and (b) those aspiring to migrate legally with skills needed in the destination countries. The project also address skills development-related challenges faced by the indigenous and other groups in the areas affected by climate change including the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

Project symbol

BGD/16/04/EUR_OLD

Admin unit

CO-Dhaka

Start date

01/01/2017

End date

30/11/2020

Total allocation

2406645

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

2407905

Development Partners

Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh

Country/Countries

Bangladesh

Outcomes

Outcome 5: Skills and lifelong learning to facilitate access to and transitions in the labour market