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Talking notes during the National Poverty Policy Week Talking notes during the National Poverty Policy Week

2525thth –27 –27thth NOVEMBER, 2013 NOVEMBER, 2013

Presented by:Presented by:

Enock Kibendela Enock Kibendela

Director of Labour Market ,Planning and Director of Labour Market ,Planning and Development(VETA)Development(VETA)

‘Scaling up Best Practices and Maximizing Potential Opportunities for Sustainable Pro- poor and Inclusive Growth’

Skills and Job creation

Contents

1. Introduction – About VETA2. VET Provisions3. Employment status of VET graduates4. Entrepreneurship is integrated in VET Curriculum 5. RPLA Programme6. Collaboration with stakeholders7. Way forward

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1.0. WHAT IS VETA3

Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA).

An autonomous body, agency of the Government, Financed through a Payroll Levy and given the responsibility of Coordinating, Regulating, Financing and Providing Vocational Education and Training.

2.0 VET Provisions

Most of VET learners are socially and economically

marginalized youths and adults.

More than 90 programs across all economic

sectors. And about 150,000 trainees are enrolled

every year which is about 15% only of the annual

requirement

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2.1 Mode of Training

Mode of training delivery is flexible, but the common ones are;

long and short courses, tailor made and apprentices courses.

Short courses are numerous depending on the needs

In 2011/12 , there were a total of 128,217 trainees both long and short courses of whom

• 73,471 long course and• 54,746 short courses.

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Employment Status Male Female Total

Employed 67.4 63.5 66.1

Unemployed 22.1 27.4 23.9

Inactive 10.5 9.1 10.0

Total 100% 100. 100

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3.0 STATUS OF VET GRADUATES IN THE LABOUR MARKET(Tracer Study 2010)

Reasons for being out of work (unemployed or inactive)

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Reasons for being out of work

Male%

Female%

Total%

No demand for the trained skill area/trade/course 19.2 13.7 15.8Not receiving expected salary/wages 5.4 2.7 4.3

Lack of resources to start self employment and confidence 22.3 32.1 26.3Health Reasons 0.5 2.7 1.4Attending Training to fill LM .Gaps/Upgrading 47.5 33.6 41.8Housework 2.5 11.8 6.3

Other external factors, including seasonality. 2.6 3.3 2.9Total 100 100 100

Status in Employment

4.0 Entrepreneurship is intergrated in VET Curriculum

Since 2005 we have special programme; Entrepreneurship Education Training (EET)for VET Teachers at Morogoro Vocational Teachers College under NUFFIC Project

The Program enables all learners attending long courses take entrepreneurship as a complementary subject (as TOT).

A total of 1552 leaners have acquired Entrepreneurship skills since the establishment of (EET)programme. (EET tracer study report 2012)

Also according to this report, out 805 graduates, 235 equivalent to 29 percent were self – employed. (EET graduate tracer study 2012)

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5.0 Skills Training for the Informal Sector

For more than 10 years VETA has been supporting the informal sector operators through “Integrated Training for Entrepreneurship promotion (INTEP) programs”.

INTEP makes it possible for informal business operators to sharpen and improve their technical skills as well as business skills.

In 2012 a total 884 beneficiaries were trained in various skills from different part of the country. The following table gives more details. (INTEP records)

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Informal sector operators trained through INTEP Program in 2012

11SN LOCATIONS SKILLS PROVIDED NUMBER OF BENEFICIAR

IES

1Dodoma Modern bee keeping and Honey processing 352Kigoma Ujiji Modern fish processing and preservations 343Dodoma Entrepreneurship education and Marketing

Techniques38

4Iringa Batiki making 335Iringa Decorations 426Arusha city Tour Guiding techniques on tourists care 937Arusha City Upgrading Skills in welding & Fabrication and

Customer Care Techniques12

8Moshi Rural Upgrading skills in Motor Vehicle Mechanics & Welding and fabrication

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9Morogoro Sustainable agriculture, Saving and Lending approach

496

10Mpand District Hotel services, inoder service coal mining sector

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11Lindi Business skills 30  Total   884

6.0 Recognition of Prior Learning(RPL)

VET system in Tanzania gives chances to the marginalized groups.

VETA in collaboration with ILO, is now venturing in formalizing VET skills gained outside the formal learning systems (informal apprentices) through Recognition of Prior Learning Assessment (RPLA).

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RPL Cont......

In a pilot study, a total of 124 Informal apprentices have been assessed in Mtwara, Lindi, Mwanza and Morogoro, 97 proved competent hence eligible for certification

Occupations/Trades involved include Motor Vehicle Mechanics, Carpentry and Joinery

Work in progress is RPLA for Masonry and Brick Laying and Food Preparation (cookery)

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Through RPLA project, Modules of Employable Skills (MES) for each pilot trade have been developed in Kiswahili

Guidelines for RPL have been developed

It is expected that once RPLA is fully operational, most of the artisans in the streets will formally assessed, providing opportunity decent employment and further training.

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Collaboration with stakeholders

Nati0nal Housing Corporation (NHC)Gas industriesSIDO

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7. Collaboration cont….

VETA and NHC had entered into agreement by signing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

The purpose is for NHC to utilize VET graduate on its Housing construction projects.

35 VET graduates trained and are working in NHC low cost housing project through this collaboration

In the second phase we expect 200 graduated will be used as TOT in NHC employment promotion project.

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Collaboration continue…

Partnership between VETA, VSO and BG Tanzania in the Oil and Gas sector.(2011/12)

The project title: “Enhancing Employability through Vocational Training (EEVT)”

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Collaboration cont…

The project is expected to benefit the following 24 VET teachers through receipt of daily

support on the job by VSO tutors 620 VET students expected to benefit from an

improved education environment, the presence of VSO tutors and certified VET teachers

280 VET students to access employment after graduation.

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Collaboration continue...

Key skills in line with internationally recognised standards in 8 areas namely :-

Food preparation Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Welding and Fabrication Carpentry and Joinery Motor Vehicle Mechanics Electrical InstallationOther generic skills include English language,

Health & Safety, Maintenance and Entrepreneurship will also be covered.

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Way forward

From the VETA corporate plan VCP IV 1012/13 – 2016/17, the following areas will be addressedImprove VET access and equity, so as to increase the number of VET graduates annually to 300,000 by 2016/17Improve quality of VET to make training relevance to LM and increase employability and employment of VET graduates

Improve collaboration with key stakeholders Improve informal sector training (15,000 Informal sector Operators trained by

2017) Provide skills training to support emerging industries and investments, eg iron,

coal and oil and gas Promote innovation and ICT integration into VET system Establish incubators/clusters for VET graduate in each zone. etc

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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