Project Category
Institutional Capacity Building Services
Project Title
Rwanda: Strengthening the Workforce Development Authority to Establish an Integrated TVET System
Name of Client
Workforce Development Authority (WDA)
Start/ End Date
Aug 2010 - Aug 2012
Project Description
Facilitate development of Rwandan TVET system.
The specific objectives of the project are to:
- Strengthen the organisation and management capacity of the WDA and Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centres (IPRCs)
- Establish a sustainable training system at the A1 (post-secondary) level of TVET
- Establish a National Qualifications Framework for the whole TVET offer, piloted in the three occupational areas of Construction, Hospitality & Tourism, and Agriculture
Project deliverables:
- NQF strategic planning, including design, policy development and systems implementation
- Draft legislation and Governance arrangements
- Capacity Building of local staff
- Capacity Building of emerging Awarding Bodies
- Training in operationalising the mandates of the WDA
- Operational and administrative structures development
- Job descriptions and functional analysis for the Authority
- Guidance documents to support the development of National systems of quality assurance
- Labour Market Research Strategies to support National Qualifications Development
- Communications strategy
- WDA MIS, data management and network systems
- Guidance documentation and manuals for all key mandates