Malawi Enhancing Technical Entrepreneurial Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) Outcomes Project
Country: Malawi
Project location within country: Blantyre, Lilongwe
Duration: April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2008
Budget: $1.4 million
Project status: Complete
Project description
The project supported the Government of Malawi by increasing employment and self-employment through appropriate technical, entrepreneurial, vocational programming and policy supports. The project supported this goal by activities related to building and sustaining the Malawi Technical Entrepreneurial Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) system’s capacity to increase employment and self-employment through the development of market driven policies, management practices focused on community needs and student-centered teaching processes. Through the provision of training the project will increase the capacity of the various technical institutions to plan and implement demand-driven TEVET programming.
Goal
The goal of the project was to support the Government of Malawi in its plan to reduce poverty by increasing employment and self-employment through appropriate technical, entrepreneurial vocational programming and policy supports.
Partners
Malawi Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Technical Entrepreneurial Vocational Education and Training Authority; Malawi Polytechnic
Colleges and Institutes Canada
Red River College, Winnipeg Manitoba
Bow Valley College, Calgary Alberta
Results
This project supported the capacity development of the TEVET system in Malawi through five activity streams:
Contact us
Angela Wojcichowsky, Director, International Partnerships & ProjectsSaskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon Campus, 20th St.
200 – 226 – 20th Street East | PO Box 1520,
Saskatoon SK S7K 0R6 Canada
+1-306-659-6915
angela.wojcichowsky@saskpolytech.ca