Youth Employment, Self Employment and S ustainable Development in the Pacific and Timor Leste

1. Youth Employment, Self Employment and Sustainable Development in the Pacific and Timor Leste How can Demand Training Respond? 27 – 29 September 2011 Novotel Hotel, Nadi, Fiji Islands David Lambukly – dlambukly@vanuatu.gov.vu Chief Executive Officer, Vanuatu National Training Council

2. Vanuatu Context • Archipelago 83 islands stretching north to south over 1000 kms • Population 243,000 • 80% population in rural areas primarily engaged in subsistence production • Small monetised sector predominantly in two urban centres – Port Vila and Luganville ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

3. Vanuatu Context cont. • 40% population income <$1 per day • Highest Gini coefficient in the world • Adult literacy 32% - one of the lowest in the region • Limited access to secondary education – gross enrolment rate 20% • Recent impressive economic growth but limited progress in rural areas ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

4. TVET Context • Traditionally a small sub-sector of education (0.7% of national budget compared to 28% for education overall) • Previously: • Institutionally based, supply driven • Limited rural reach • Weak link between economic growth and training • No coherent HRD planning • Minimal partnership between TVET and the productive sector • Minimal policy framework • Emerging quality training system and qualifications structure under Vanuatu National Training Council ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

5. CHALLENGES • Ensure improvement in the skills and management levels of the workforce – CRP 1997 • Quality of training • Restricted access mainly for school leavers • Under-utilised facilities and small class sizes • Mainly full-time courses lasting several years • Formal delivery style – theory followed by practice • Qualifications specific to formal TVET system • Supply driven curricular • Limited rural reach ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

6. ESTABLISHMENT OF NTC • The NTC’s statutory powers and actions are determined by the Vanuatu National Training Council Act of 1999 and the VNTC Amendment Act of 2007. • The work of the VNTC is directed by a Board of 8 members drawn from: • Ministry of Youth Development, Sports and Training, • Department of Labour, • Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, • Vanuatu National Council of Women, • Formal and non-formal training providers and associations. • concisely describe the unit of competency outcome. • Not exceed 100 characters including spaces between words. ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

7. KEY REPONSIBILITIES • To advocate strongly the benefits of the national training system and to support access by industry, communities, training providers and trainees. • To set up and administer a national TVET qualifications framework. • In consultation with industry set competency standards for any occupation, job, post, or position in any career situation. • Accredit TVET courses • To register persons, institutions and organisations providing accredited courses • To evaluate and recognise competencies learnt outside formal Training. • To set up and support Provincial Training Boards in each province in order for them to assist national policy ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

8. To set up and support Provincial Training Boards in each province . • To develop appropriate policies on technical vocational education and training in response to emerging priorities for skills development. • To provide guidance in the interpretation and operationalisation of TVET policy. • To contribute to regional and global developments in TVET and apply these as appropriate to the Vanuatu TVET system. • Providing training options that help all people in Vanuatu to achieve their career and personal ambitions ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

9. SOME SUCCESSES • Trust on credibility of TVET courses by industries and communities • TVET courses are developed based on demands from industries and communities • Accredited short courses for rural people • Flexibility in TVET course delivery • Increase in self – employment and economic activities for rural people. ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

10. FLEXIBLE, QUALITY DEMAND DRIVEN TRAINING DELIVERY Government of Vanuatu/AusAID response: Dual Objectives: • To strengthen decentralised TVET service delivery to better link training to skill demands in the productive sector • To strengthen the development of a quality-based national training system • Employment and Training Fund (ETF) piloted in Vanuatu as part of the AusAID - funded TVET Sector Strengthening Program (2008-12) • Program based in two provincial locations where “TVET Centres” have been established ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

11. Ministry of Youth Development, Sports and Training (MYDST) • Vanuatu National Training Council (VNTC) • Strategic Advisory Group – national level productive sector representation • TVET Centres positioned alongside Provincial Training Boards (PTBs) – decentralised arm of VNTC • PTBs – provincial planners and productive sector representation to improve coordination and guide shift to demand driven training ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

12. ETF – Key Features • TVET Centres operating within the framework of the national quality based TVET system under the MYDST and VNTC • ETF funding mechanism for two provincial TVET Centres which offer range of training services • AUD1.5 million for two provinces over 3 years to finance accredited training and business development services ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

13. ETF – Key Objectives • Leverage partnerships between demand and supply stakeholders • Leverage stronger link between training delivery and economic outcomes • Leverage quality training within the National Qualifications Framework ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

14. ETF – Key Principles • Only training providers registered with the VNTC can access the ETF • Only units of competency accredited by the VNTC can be delivered under the ETF • ETF disbursement governed by ETF Selection Committee comprising key members of the PTB – Chair, Provincial Planner, rotating productive sector representative ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

15. ETF – Training Request Selection Criteria • Key criteria: • Training must be in support of an economic activity • Activity is in line with provincial economic development priorities • Clear link between skill acquisition and economic outcomes (increased income, productivity, employment levels) • Activity has no negative environmental impact ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

16. Monitoring and Evaluation • Baseline data collected at the beginning of every ETF training to capture: • Participant demographics • Participant employment status • Follow-up “tracer” data collected six month after training completion to determine changes in trainee employment/ income/ production levels ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

17. Changes in income and production as at June 2011 Results - Training ETF Trainees Sanma ETF Trainees Malampa ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

18. Results - Training ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

19. Results - Training ETF Participants by Age 2010 – May 2011 ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

20. System Results • Strengthening of a demand-driven system • ETF training requests coming from productive sector representatives in line with sectoral development priorities. • Catalyst for training providers to gear development and delivery of courses • Strengthening of a national training system based on quality • Increased numbers of training providers registered with the VNTC and accredited course. ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

21. System Results cont. • Strengthening of a national training system based on flexible delivery mechanisms and equitable access • Training providers delivering nationally recognised single units outside of institutions in provincial “work-based” locations • Trainees able to build towards a full qualification over time without constraints of time and place • Increased access by women and people with disabilities through targeted programs ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future

22. Future Directions • Proven model of demand-driven training coordination which can be replicated across the country within national framework • Based on this model, national TVET policy specifies: • Roll-out of TVET Centres • Feasibility of a National Training Fund ETFP TVET .....Votre Voie pour un Avenir Meilleur .... Your Way For a Better Future