Afghanistan technical and vocational education training (TVET) providers inventory

With 35 per cent unemployment and a staggering 68 per cent of the population under 25 years of age, Afghanistan is in desperate need of building its training and vocational institutions to aid the transition from social recovery to economic growth. Through building these institutions, the country may begin to shape a workforce that is responsive to labor market-market needs. The [United States Agency for International Development] USAID Office of Economic Growth's (OEG) new Afghanistan Workforce Development Program (AWDP) was conceived to address this need. The goal of the AWDP is to...  [+] Show more

With 35 per cent unemployment and a staggering 68 per cent of the population under 25 years of age, Afghanistan is in desperate need of building its training and vocational institutions to aid the transition from social recovery to economic growth. Through building these institutions, the country may begin to shape a workforce that is responsive to labor market-market needs. The [United States Agency for International Development] USAID Office of Economic Growth's (OEG) new Afghanistan Workforce Development Program (AWDP) was conceived to address this need. The goal of the AWDP is to increase job placement, wages, labor productivity and meaningful workforce participation. The objective of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) inventory consultancy was to assemble a foundation of information and tools to guide strategy and accelerate implementation of AWDP. To accomplish this, TVET consultants conducted interviews with key stakeholders and hired a local research firm to survey 400 TVET providers (non-government) in the urban and peri-urban provinces of Herat, Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz. Results of interviews and surveys point to a TVET sector that is disorganized and disconnected from workforce needs.

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