ADEA Inter-country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
The ADEA Inter-country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN/TVSD) was launched in July 2010 during a Ministerial Conference to serve as a catalyst for policies, strategies and action in favor of the development of technical and vocational skills to support the accelerated, sustainable development of Africa. As of 2014, the node is comprised of more than 20 participating governments – Francophone, Anglophone and Lusophone – from all the sub-regions of Africa. The idea behind the setting up of inter-country quality nodes was to involve the countries as focal points, in order to develop a transnational cooperation in terms of policies, knowledge and experiences. The lead organization of the ICQN/TVSD is the Ministry for Technical and Vocational Training of Côte d’Ivoire.
For more information see the webpage for the ADEA Inter-country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development.
About the partnership
NORRAG’s involvement in the Node’s activities started in 2014.
Since then, NORRAG and ICQN-TVSD have collaborated on knowledge production and sharing through involvement in the following events:
- Ministerial Conference on Providing Africa’s Youth with Skills and Training for Jobs (Abidjan, July 2014) – country reports
- Ministerial Conference (Kigali, October 2015)
- Expert Meeting on the Education-Training Continuum (Abidjan, November 2016)
In line with these events, NORRAG has been involved in the production of the following documents in English and in French:
- EN: The Education-Training Continuum: An analysis of the concept and its implications for education and training policies in Africa (available on request)
- FR: Le continuum éducation-formation: Une analyse du concept et de ses implications pour les politiques éducatives et de formation en Afrique (disponible sur demande)
- EN: A Compendium of African Experiences in Promoting the Implementation of the Education and Training Continuum: a state-of-the-art cross-national analysis of policy and practice in 17 countries (available on request – French version coming soon)
- EN: Relevant and Quality Training for Teachers, Trainers and Entrepreneurs: A Key Condition for an Efficient Education-Training Continuum. Linking Kigali 2015 and Abidjan 2016 (available on request).