Employment and employability

Luxembourg Development Cooperation has long worked with the Government of Cabo Verde on the development of technical and vocational education and training, progressively moving from technical education towards vocational training projects and a genuine programme to support the development of the sector through budget support.

Luxembourg development cooperation has therefore engaged in the construction and equipment of several new institutions, training of trainers and managers in the development of a quality system and in the implementation of programmes for various target groups looking for job qualifications or willing to engage in a gainful employment.

These interventions have contributed to the evolution of sector governance by restructuring the vocational training sector and the introducing new methods that enable better coordination between the institutions and stakeholders involved in the implementation of programmes across the entire territory.

The Employment and employability programme focuses on enhancing the employability of vocational training beneficiaries, especially young people and women, in three ways:

• organisation and articulation of the actors involved in the sector of vocational training for increased efficiency;
• better matching supply with market expectations and strengthening the management of education centres;
• increased technical and financial viability of vocational training institutions.

Three types of instruments will be used for the implementation of the programme’s activities; namely, budgeted aid to support funds and the provision of resources to administrators, operational partnership agreements for selected national partners and direct management by LuxDev for residual activities.

A particularly important aspect concerns the strengthening of continuous monitoring and evaluation systems as an essential tool to ensure good governance of the sector and to allow Luxembourg to assume the role of leader of the education-training-employment sector in the Budget Support Group, which meets twice a year in Cabo Verde.