Provision of expertise to support ETF initiatives for human resources development

Location

EU and countries covered by IPA, ENPI, DCI

Duration

2008 - 2009

Donor

European Training Foundation

Budget

5.000.000 EURO

Description and Deliverables

This framework contract is intended to cover contracting of specific expertise services to support ETF initiatives in the partner countries covered by its work programme, in different fields relating to human resource development. Inputs from experts may be required, for example, in one or more of the following areas:

Programming and project design (including feasibility studies), monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, dissemination of project results and good practice;
Policy analysis and targeted policy advice;
Data collection and analysis, report writing, desk research, editing of specialised reports;
Design and delivery of capacity building activities such as study visits, training and event facilitation;
Translation and interpretation requiring knowledge of specialised terminology, etc.

The services may be 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.
The below list provides an overview of the main thematic areas in which ETF may require specific expertise support.

Adult Learning
Education financing
Employment and labour market
Entrepreneurship
Gender equality
Governance
Higher education
HRD in the context of globalisation and competitiveness
ICT in learning
Key competences
Lifelong learning and VET
Migration
Policy development
Primary and secondary education
Qualification frameworks
Quality in education and training
Skills for poverty reduction
Social inclusion
Social partnership
Teaching and learning

Services

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

Programming and project design (including feasibility studies), monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, dissemination of project results and good practice;
Policy analysis and targeted policy advice;
Data collection and analysis, report writing, desk research, editing of specialised reports;
Design and delivery of capacity building activities such as study visits, training and event facilitation;
Translation and interpretation requiring knowledge of specialised terminology, etc.

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