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VET System Development Webinar Series

Starting in June 2022, the SDC has hosted a series of online webinars on the topic of VET system development. These webinars have been organised in both English and French. On this page, you can find the recordings of the webinars that have already taken place, as well as the dates for the next ones.

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Normative Documents
SDC [3.1 MB]

Updated Version 2022 - For SDC, education is a priority theme and comprises both basic education and vocational skills development. The SDC Education Strategy sets out how we will reach this objective through our bilateral and multilateral engagement. It provides guidance to the SDC’s South Cooperation, Cooperation with Eastern Europe, Global Cooperation as well as Humanitarian Aid and inspires the SDC’s cooperation strategies and its global and multilateral programmes.
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SDC [2.9 MB]

This introduction paper and guidance is made for Vocational Education and Training (VET) practitioners, donors and implementing partners in development cooperation who want to better understand and analyse how VET systems function and how their different elements interrelate. It shall therefore…

- introduce those working in VET projects and institutions into VET systems thinking and provide them with a basic understanding and analytical dimensions;

- improve the quality of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)’s VET interventions based on a better understanding of VET systems;

- provide input for SDC’s position in the discussion about systemic approaches to VET systems development and reform.


Updated version April 2022
SDC [3.3 MB]
Infrastructure and equipment of Vocational Education and Training (VET) are particularly expensive and VET systems constantly face financial limitations, in particular in countries of the global South. Investments in infrastructure and equipment for VET programmes1 are therefore a recurrent topic in development cooperation.

As there is a general interest to get more guidance on this topic, the SDC Economy and Education Team elaborated this guidance paper in close collaboration with other WOGA partners. It aims to shed some light on this issue to help SDC officers and their implementers to make informed and appropriate decisions and to avoid or at least mitigate risks.

The guidance paper does not intend to replace the various resources such as internal guidelines and documents dealing with infrastructure investments and procurement issues, but recommends approaching the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Competence Center in this matter.

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On July 5th 2022, the SDC Youth Employment Promotion Project (YEPP) in Mongolia and the Youth Employment Project (YEP) in Bosnia-Hercegovina shared implementation experiences, results and lessons learnt with more than 30 participants during an online Brown Bag Lunch.
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Key Videos

Webinar 5 July 2022 - Capitalisation of Youth Employment Services by YEPP (Mongolia) and YEP (BiH) (2022) SDC
Kick-Off June 2022 - Webinar series on VET System Development (2022) SDC
French Version
Webinar Elements of the VET System (2022)
French Version

Key Documents

SDC [1.9 MB]
Starting in June 2022, the SDC has hosted a series of online webinars on the topic of VET system development. These webinars have been organised in both English and French.  
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Slides of the webinar on financing infrastructure or equipment in VET, which took place on 5 December 2022. 
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VSD
VSD Resource Box
VET Systems
Gender in VSD
Dual VET and engagement with the private sector
Digitalisation and Learning
National qualification frameworks
Basic Education & Vocational Skills
Learning Journey Interlinking Basic Education and VSD, Career guidance
Youth Employment
Inclusion (VSD)
Informal Sector
VET System Development Webinar Series

Relevant News

  • 05 Dec 2022
    SDC Practical Guidance - Financing infrastructure and equipment in VET

    SDC Practical Guidance - Financing infrastructure and equipment in VET

    Infrastructure and equipment of Vocational Education and Training (VET) are particularly expensive and VET systems constantly face financial limitations, in particular in countries of the global South. Investments in infrastructure and equipment for VET programmes are therefore a recurrent topic in development cooperation.

    As there is a general interest to get more guidance on this topic, the SDC Economy and Education Team elaborated this guidance paper in close collaboration with other WOGA partners. It aims to shed some light on this issue to help SDC officers and their implementers to make informed and appropriate decisions and to avoid or at least mitigate risks.

    The guidance paper does not intend to replace the various resources such as internal guidelines and documents dealing with infrastructure investments and procurement issues, but recommends approaching the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Competence Center in this matter.
05 December 2022
SDC Practical Guidance - Financing infrastructure and equipment in VET

Infrastructure and equipment of Vocational Education and Training (VET) are particularly expensive and VET systems constantly face financial limitations, in particular in countries of the global South. Investments in infrastructure and equipment for VET programmes are therefore a recurrent topic in development cooperation.

As there is a general interest to get more guidance on this topic, the SDC Economy and Education Team elaborated this guidance paper in close collaboration with other WOGA partners. It aims to shed some light on this issue to help SDC officers and their implementers to make informed and appropriate decisions and to avoid or at least mitigate risks.

The guidance paper does not intend to replace the various resources such as internal guidelines and documents dealing with infrastructure investments and procurement issues, but recommends approaching the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Competence Center in this matter.

Relevant Events

  • 07 May 2024
    DC dVET Barcamp - Development of sustainable VET concepts along the entire supply chain

    DC dVET Barcamp - Development of sustainable VET concepts along the entire supply chain

    In continuation of our learning journey on the role of dual VET in a just green transition,the DC dVET is delightedto invite you to our 4th BarCamp addressing sustainable VET along the supply chain. Let’s discuss with national and international players on approaches to promote sustainability-related vocational skills. During the BarCamp we will look at the Development of sustainabile VET concepts along the entire supply chain.


    The program includes: 


    • Keynote speech & presentation of the VET Chain counselling tool: Let’s hear from the international department at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) on the effective use of their newly developed interactive tool “VET Chain” for visualising VET along the supply chain. Let’s discuss how the tool can be applied in the context of development cooperation as it provides impulses and starting points for the conceptualisation and implementation of sustainable VET.

    • Exchange Sessions: Bring in your own experiences and discuss them with the others - join one of the sessions and discuss the application of this innovative and interactive tool with project representatives and leading VET centers as well as sector experts. If you want to host your own session, please indicate this in the registration form.  


    To register click here.
  • 05 Dec 2022
    Webinar - Financing of infrastructure an equipment in VET on 5 December 2022

    Webinar - Financing of infrastructure an equipment in VET on 5 December 2022

    As part of its webinar series on VET systems development, the SDC hosted its third webinar on the financing of infrastructure an equipment in VET. Infrastructure and equipment of VET are particularly expensive and VET systems constantly face financial limitations. Investments in infrastructure and equipment for VET programmes are therefore a recurrent topic in development cooperation. 


    As there is an overall interest to get more orientation on this topic, the SDC Economy and Education Team elaborated a guidance paper in close consultation with the colleagues of the Expert Group Construction from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid. 

    The webinar introduced not only to this guidance paper but also to the Expert Group Construction as part of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Competence Centre. 

    Overall, several experts provided practical orientation on key questions related to investments of infrastructure and equipment in VET. 

    The slides can be found here.

    A recording of the webinar can be found here:
  • 05 Jul 2022
    Online Brown Bag Lunch: Capitalisation of Youth Employment Services provided by the YEPP project Mongolia and the YEP project in BiH

    Online Brown Bag Lunch: Capitalisation of Youth Employment Services provided by the YEPP project Mongolia and the YEP project in BiH

    On July 5th 2022, the COOFs Mongolia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and the IED Expert team hosted an online capitalization of two highly interesting and innovative approaches of the Youth Employment Projects in Mongolia (YEPP) and BiH (YEP) that came to an end shortly before the event.The Mongolia project originally focused on improving vocational education and training (VET) provision in six Provinces in Mongolia. Following completion of a first phase and at the request of the local partners the project was redesigned towards supporting young job seekers and scaling the so-called Youth Employment Services (YES) Desks. More than 30 YES Desks have therefore been created since 2017.  The Youth Employment Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina also supported public employment bodies in improving their offer and introducing youth-friendly services, such as individual and group careers advice for unemployed young adults (job clubs). This online capitalization allowed the sharing of implementation experiences / lessons learned and facilitated peer exchange. 

    The key take-aways have been compiled in this brief document.

    A recording of the event can be found here:
  • 24 Jun 2022 WebEx
    Webinaire sur les composantes clés du système de formation professionnelle (FR)

    Webinaire sur les composantes clés du système de formation professionnelle (FR)

    La DDC vous invite au deuxième webinaire sur le développement des systèmes de formation professionnelle. Le webinaire se concentre sur les composantes clés du système de formation professionnelle. 

    L’un des auteurs de la publication Comprendre et analyser les systèmes de formation professionnelle - Une introduction, Franz Kehl de Swisscontact, présente et explique cette publication d'introduction qui vous aide à comprendre l'essence des systèmes de formation professionnelle et propose des questions analytiques clés pour vous permettre de comprendre encore mieux vos contextes. Des exemples de projets illustrent la présentation, et nous prévoyons suffisamment de temps pour les questions et la discussion. 

    Le webinaire a eu lieu en français le 24 juin de 11:00 à 12:30 (CEST).


    Vous trouverez l'enregistrement ici:

     
  • 21 Jun 2022
    Webinar on key components of the VET system (ENG)

    Webinar on key components of the VET system (ENG)

    The SDC hosted the second webinar on VET system development on 21.06.2022. The webinar focused on the key components of the VET system. 


    One of the authors of the publication Understanding and analysing vocational education and training systems – An introduction, Wolfgang Schlegel of INBAS, presented and explained this introductory publication that helps you to understand the essence of VET systems and offers key analytical questions for you to understand your contexts even better. Project examples illustrated the presentation. 


    Watch the recording of the webinar
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07 May 2024 07 May 2024 07 May 2024 07 May
DC dVET Barcamp - Development of sustainable VET concepts along the entire supply chain

In continuation of our learning journey on the role of dual VET in a just green transition,the DC dVET is delightedto invite you to our 4th BarCamp addressing sustainable VET along the supply chain. Let’s discuss with national and international players on approaches to promote sustainability-related vocational skills. During the BarCamp we will look at the Development of sustainabile VET concepts along the entire supply chain.


The program includes: 


  • Keynote speech & presentation of the VET Chain counselling tool: Let’s hear from the international department at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) on the effective use of their newly developed interactive tool “VET Chain” for visualising VET along the supply chain. Let’s discuss how the tool can be applied in the context of development cooperation as it provides impulses and starting points for the conceptualisation and implementation of sustainable VET.

  • Exchange Sessions: Bring in your own experiences and discuss them with the others - join one of the sessions and discuss the application of this innovative and interactive tool with project representatives and leading VET centers as well as sector experts. If you want to host your own session, please indicate this in the registration form.  


To register click here.
05 Dec 2022 05 December 2022 05 December 2022 05 December
Webinar - Financing of infrastructure an equipment in VET on 5 December 2022

As part of its webinar series on VET systems development, the SDC hosted its third webinar on the financing of infrastructure an equipment in VET. Infrastructure and equipment of VET are particularly expensive and VET systems constantly face financial limitations. Investments in infrastructure and equipment for VET programmes are therefore a recurrent topic in development cooperation. 


As there is an overall interest to get more orientation on this topic, the SDC Economy and Education Team elaborated a guidance paper in close consultation with the colleagues of the Expert Group Construction from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid. 

The webinar introduced not only to this guidance paper but also to the Expert Group Construction as part of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Competence Centre. 

Overall, several experts provided practical orientation on key questions related to investments of infrastructure and equipment in VET. 

The slides can be found here.

A recording of the webinar can be found here:
05 Jul 2022 05 July 2022 05 July 2022 05 July
Online Brown Bag Lunch: Capitalisation of Youth Employment Services provided by the YEPP project Mongolia and the YEP project in BiH
On July 5th 2022, the COOFs Mongolia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and the IED Expert team hosted an online capitalization of two highly interesting and innovative approaches of the Youth Employment Projects in Mongolia (YEPP) and BiH (YEP) that came to an end shortly before the event.The Mongolia project originally focused on improving vocational education and training (VET) provision in six Provinces in Mongolia. Following completion of a first phase and at the request of the local partners the project was redesigned towards supporting young job seekers and scaling the so-called Youth Employment Services (YES) Desks. More than 30 YES Desks have therefore been created since 2017.  The Youth Employment Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina also supported public employment bodies in improving their offer and introducing youth-friendly services, such as individual and group careers advice for unemployed young adults (job clubs). This online capitalization allowed the sharing of implementation experiences / lessons learned and facilitated peer exchange. 

The key take-aways have been compiled in this brief document.

A recording of the event can be found here:
24 Jun 2022 in WebEx 24 June 2022 24 June 2022 in WebEx 24 June in WebEx
Webinaire sur les composantes clés du système de formation professionnelle (FR)

La DDC vous invite au deuxième webinaire sur le développement des systèmes de formation professionnelle. Le webinaire se concentre sur les composantes clés du système de formation professionnelle. 

L’un des auteurs de la publication Comprendre et analyser les systèmes de formation professionnelle - Une introduction, Franz Kehl de Swisscontact, présente et explique cette publication d'introduction qui vous aide à comprendre l'essence des systèmes de formation professionnelle et propose des questions analytiques clés pour vous permettre de comprendre encore mieux vos contextes. Des exemples de projets illustrent la présentation, et nous prévoyons suffisamment de temps pour les questions et la discussion. 

Le webinaire a eu lieu en français le 24 juin de 11:00 à 12:30 (CEST).


Vous trouverez l'enregistrement ici:

 
21 Jun 2022 21 June 2022 21 June 2022 21 June
Webinar on key components of the VET system (ENG)

The SDC hosted the second webinar on VET system development on 21.06.2022. The webinar focused on the key components of the VET system. 


One of the authors of the publication Understanding and analysing vocational education and training systems – An introduction, Wolfgang Schlegel of INBAS, presented and explained this introductory publication that helps you to understand the essence of VET systems and offers key analytical questions for you to understand your contexts even better. Project examples illustrated the presentation. 


Watch the recording of the webinar
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