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NORRAG-UNDP workshop
Post-2015 Politics and Foresight:
what room for education?
Shawn Mendes
Peter Greenwood
Geneva, 1 June 2012
What is the ETF?
An EU agency with 130 staff and a mandate to help 31 partner
countries harness the potential of their human capital through
reform of education, training and labour market systems in the
context of the EU’s external relations policies.
Vision
To make VET in the partner countries a driver for lifelong
learning and sustainable development, with a focus on
competitiveness and social cohesion.
The ETF has both an analytical and a developmental role.
ETF PARTNER COUNTRIES
EUROPEAN
NEIGHBOURHOOD
COUNTRIES
ENP EAST:
Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Republic
of Moldova, Ukraine and
Russia
OTHER COUNTRIES FROM
CENTRAL ASIA:
CANDIDATE COUNTRIES:
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan
Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Iceland, Montenegro, and Turkey
ENP SOUTH:
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, occupied
Palestinian Territory, Syria and Tunisia
+ (Libya)
POTENTIAL CANDIDATE COUNTRIES:
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo
(UNSCR 1244/1999), and Serbia
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How the ETF identifies
the challenges
We are here to identify challenges facing E&T and explore
responses in the midst of unemployment, financial and debt
problems . . . at the very time developed countries enter
decades of demographic problems (demographic re-balancing?).
• Growing international interest in skills and VET. The EU has
been a driver in this, but increasingly also the ILO, OECD,
UNESCO, World Bank and other actors such as the G20.
• A challenge given the complexity of VET and the limited
availability of international indicators for vocational education
and training.
Inspired by Torino Process,
the ETF focuses on…
VET system development and provision:
1) Qualifications and quality;
2) Regional development and governance;
3) Sustainable development; and
4) Learning in different contexts.
LM needs:
1) Matching and anticipation;
2) Employment and employability;
3) Social inclusion; and
4) Migration and skills.
Enterprises and entrepreneurship learning.
The ETF moving forward
Structure of ETF support to partner countries:
• Policy analysis (TRP/evidence-based policy making).
• Capacity building and networking (Torinet).
• Dissemination of good practice.
• Support for the EC – aligning policy support with investment.
The vision involves a continuous focus on policy learning:
• Ownership.
• Participatory process.
• Holistic policy framework.
• Evidence based – indicators.