Featured Project: GIZ Promotes Evidence-Based Employment Promotion Activities in Egypt

On behalf of the German Government, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is implementing the Employment Promotion Project (EPP) with the objective that technical and vocational education students and unemployed youth are better prepared for the demands of the labor market. The project builds on the experiences and successes of the first phase of EPP (2011-2015) and has a duration of five years (2016-2020).

The project covers almost 130 technical schools in 20 governorates. 700+ Teachers are being qualified to deliver the services to the target group of students inside and outside the schools More experience teachers are being capacitated to act as “multipliers”, whereby their main roles focus on monitoring the delivery of career guidance classes, the provision of technical assistance to the teachers delivering the services, in addition to evaluating their performance to report necessary recommendations to the MoE

Evidence-based policy-making

the project advises the Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MoE) especially the Technical Education Sector on planning evidence-based technical and vocational education and training and labor market policies. It further develops capacities on selected topics, such as monitoring of process quality in education.

Regional Labor Market Information and Active Labor Market Program

Implementation focuses on the generation and analysis of regional Labor Market Information to develop and implement Active Labor Market Program. Based on the findings of the labor market analyses, which are the outcomes of the work of the Regional Labor Market Observatories, evidence-based interventions to promote employment and tackle local employment challenges are identified, developed and implemented.

Transition to Work

Transition to work, institutionalizes advisory and information services for youth in the field of Career Guidance (CG), entrepreneurship education and training, ICT training for girls graduating from technical schools as well as jobs placement services.

Image of TVET

Improving the image of TVET aims at countering cultural and social prejudices against TVET, by, for example, conducting skills competitions and publicizing success stories.

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