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Skills 21 – Empowering citizens for inclusive and sustainable growth - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3046

eval_title:

Skills 21 – Empowering citizens for inclusive and sustainable growth - Final evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Bangladesh

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3046

recommendations:

title:

Recommendation 2: Capitalise learnings, sharpen intervention clarity and consolidate approaches to support GoB preparing for larger scale replication of Skills 21 interventions. Capturing evidence of promising interventions and documenting lessons learned for dissemination before replication is critical at this point. Thoroughly examine both strengths and weaknesses and assess the effectiveness of project's initiatives and under which conditions they might continue. Clarity about target groups and their needs and how responses are delivered and institutionalized is the key. This fosters a deeper understanding of interventions and allows for refinement to enhance outcomes in future endeavours. The Skills 21 project extensions from 2022-23 and 2023-24 highlighted plans for such studies; however, most are yet to be realised: - Three (3) tracer studies assessing impact of CBT&A and RPL on employment/self-employment and income: finished. - Lessons learnt on business incubation centres and shared with DTE/BMET and partner TVET institutes for scaling up. - Migration cell best practices were to be documented for BMET to adopt. It also included guidelines for operationalization of migration cells in the institutes. - Good practices of IMAB and employers’ forum and operational guidelines to be shared with DTE and TMED to ensure continuation. - Early sings of impact assessment on EDT programme be documented and lessons learning be shared with DTE/BMET. Linkages between DTE/BMET and SIYB foundation for continued capacity building of the institutes for EDT programmes was to be explored. Interventions need to be consolidated and proof of concepts developed. Latter include clarity to approach and target group needs, stepwise implementation plan and monitoring framework, and information detailing required time, human resources and funding requirements. Proof of concepts can guide the government in planning, financing and replication/roll-out. Some of the priority areas to consolidate for larger scale replication could include: - Deeper understanding about strategic approach how to achieve status for CSEs, MTIs, including legal and operational clarity about their future roles as capacity building institutions. Financial, staffing and legal bottlenecks are to be addressed. Their financial sustainability is to be explored. Consolidation of this intervention will require additional funding, strategic long-term vision and phased implementation. - CBT&A Teacher Training, IMDC platform use and expansion of effort by addressing quality assurance and bottlenecks of funding and staffing, is required. Mandating training and use of e-platform by introducing career development plans (CPDs) is required for institutionalisation within DTE. - Learning from international experiences, challenges faced by institutions and candidates with RPL and e-platform performance (usability and accessibility) need to be assessed and finally vetted with the private sector.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2296806

action_plan:

"(1) Under the recently initiated Talent Partnership (TP) program, the ILO will facilitate the alignment of the BNQF (Bangladesh National Qualifications Framework) for recommended occupations with the EQF (European Qualifications Framework). During regular policy dialogue sessions with the government, private sector, and education stakeholders, the ILO will emphasize the importance of enacting the BNQF. (2) The ILO Dhaka Country Office will facilitate a review of the NSDP action plan and support NSDA to strengthen sector performance and monitoring system, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. (3) The TP program is being implemented to introduce innovative models in collaboration with the private sector and social partners."

comments:

The Talent Partnership Programme was signed between the ILO, the EU, and the government in the second half of 2024, under which several planned initiatives will proceed. Selection of partner institutes, stakeholder consultations are currently ongoing, with the project scheduled to kick off in December. A Project Implementation Committee meeting has been set to finalize decisions on the project's operational framework.

date:

2025-05-26 00:00:00.0

progress:

Partially achieved

management_response:

Partially Completed

information_source:

Country Office

admin_units:

CO-Dhaka

project_symbols:

BGD/16/04/EUR

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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