Improvement of agricultural vocational education in Ethiopia
The assignment, funded by the new Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) of the Netherlands government, was granted to MSM after submitting a competitive bid, worth 2.75 mln Euro over a period of three years.
MSM has been chosen by Nuffic and the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Addis Ababa to take the lead in a comprehensive program aiming to improve the agricultural vocational education in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian State Minister for TVET, Dr Abdiwasa Abdilahi, expressed his personal support and accepted the invitation to become Chair of the foreseen National TVET Advisory Council.
The assignment, funded by the new Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) of the Netherlands government, was granted to MSM after submitting a competitive bid, worth 2.75 mln Euro over a period of three years.
The program will concentrate on both the dairy and horticulture sub-sector. It is based on the fundamental notion that improving the quality and employability of agricultural TVET graduates necessitates changes on local, regional and federal level through triple helix partnerships. On local level, four agricultural TVET colleges (two in Oromia and two in Amhara) will be capacitated to perform inclusive agro-processing, -value addition, and –production teaching, technology transfer and industry extension. On regional level, the Oromia and Amhara TVET Bureaus will be capacitated to being better positioned to execute their pivotal roles in orchestrating the TVET sector. On national (federal) level, national TVET teacher training programs will be improved. In addition, partnerships and lessons learned will be rolled out to other agricultural TVETs in Ethiopia.
Nuffic Orange Knowledge Programme
The Orange Knowledge Programme is a €195-m Dutch global development programme, available in 53 developing countries and managed by Nuffic, a Dutch non-profit organisation for internationalisation in education. Launched mid-2017, it aims to have provided tens of thousands with the possibility to change their future through education and training by mid-2022.
Other OKP tenders granted recently to MSM are in Colombia, Egypt, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
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