Strengthening Technical Vocational Education and Training

Location

Cambodia

Duration

2010 - 2015

Donor

Asian Development Bank

Budget

4.107.226 USD

Description and Deliverables

The impact of the Project will be an expanded, employment-ready mid-level workforce in rural and urban areas, including both men and women.
The Project outcome will be expanded, enterprise-endorsed public training system better aligned with the basic and mid-level skills requirements of the formal and informal economies in three industry sectors (mechanics, construction, and business services and information and communication technologies).

Component 1. Formal Programs that are more Relevant to Industry
This component will improve access to formal TVET that is linked to the demands of industry and will use industry-endorsed skills competency standards as the basis for the training curriculum, trainer training, training equipment, and an assessment of trainee performance.

Upgrade five provincial training centers to regional training centers
Develop training modules based on skills standards and train trainers
Increase industry involvement
Strengthen the National Technical Training Institute for system upgrading.

Component 2. Expanded and Better Quality Nonformal Training
The second component of the Project will extend national access to (i) nonformal TVET training (including in urban areas); (ii) training provision for the young and unemployed, female and male; and (iii) nonformal programs at different levels that yield qualifications allowing graduates to enter the next level of training.

Establish provincial training centers in unserved provinces
Extend the voucher skills training program to all provinces
Develop directors and staff of provincial training centers
Upgrade training on skills standards in the provincial training centers
Increasing accessibility to structured skills training

Component 3. Strengthened Institutional Capacity to Plan and Manage Technical and Vocational Education and Training
The last component will strengthen the capacity of DGTVET, provincial offices, and the training institutions in policy development, management and supervision; planning; budget preparation and disbursement; financial management and reporting requirements; information collection, processing, analysis and dissemination; quality assurance; and system governance and support

Assess technical and vocational education and training policies
Strengthen planning capacity
Strengthen management capacity
Improve technical and vocational education and training information systems
Develop and implement skills standards
Introduce career information systems

Services

Support fellowship trained staff at the Industrial Technical Institute (ITI) to adapt standards for industry advisory group approval;
Develop basic formats for competency standards and assessment processes in cooperation with the Construction Specialist and with Directorate General Technical and Vocational Education and Training (DGTVET) Department of Standards;
Prepare a basic curriculum package with learning materials to assist in implementing the new standards;
Assist ITI staff to design and implement a skills upgrading program for National Technical Training Institute (NTTI) teacher trainees and an in-service program for existing teachers;
Assist with analysis of functions to be included in the VETMIS;
Produce a design that can be used as a blueprint for the development of VETMIS;
Develop a production schedule for the development of VETMIS;
Identify features of LMIS that can realistically be established and managed in Cambodia;
Develop a data map (metadata) for data from various data sources;
Provide expert inputs for the establishment of LMIS.