Provision of expertise to support ETF initiatives for human capital development

Location

EU and countries covered by IPA, ENPI, DCI

Duration

2010 - 2011

Donor

European Training Foundation

Budget

4.000.000 EURO

Description and Deliverables

This framework contract is intended to cover contracting of specific high quality expertise services to support ETF initiatives in the partner countries covered by its work programme, in different fields relating to human capital development.
The services may be implemented at a country, regional or cross-regional level and may require country-specific experience or knowledge. In many cases, selected experts will work within a team of ETF and/or other external experts and their work may constitute a component of a wider project containing other activities and a number of stakeholders. Experts may be asked to work from home, Turin, or a given EU/partner country.
The requirements of specific assignments are outlined in specific terms of reference.
The below list provides an overview of key thematic areas in which ETF may require specific expertise support.

Schooling for the 21st century, covering governance, partnerships, funding, and learning innovations, student attainment and the development of entrepreneurial learning.
Equity and access to education and employment including gender, social cohesion, participation, expenditure and efficiency;
New skills for new jobs, as a framework for the ETF’s labour market analysis work, including the interaction of technological and demographic change in the context of the sustainable development of a knowledge society;
Pathways and transitions, comprising frameworks for qualifications and the recognition of learning, including post-secondary participation, higher education, non formal learning, credit transfer and the contribution of education to employability and poverty reduction; and
Transparency and portability of skills with a particular emphasis on migration and labour market integration.

Services

Technical and administrative management of assignments to be carried out under the framework contract.
Provision of experts in the following areas:

Policy reviews and analysis
Capacity building
Support to programme cycle
Dissemination and Networking
Effectiveness analyses

IPA covers: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey

ENPI covers: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine

DCI covers: Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela , Viet Nam, Yemen