📋 Tender Overview
The Better Education for Africa’s Rise (BEAR III) project - a joint initiative between UNESCO and the Republic of Korea aiming to strengthen Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems is launching its new phase in four beneficiary countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
The overarching objective of the BEAR III project is to increase the skills and employability of young people in Africa. In line with this main goal, the project is built upon three key pillars. The first one is to make making TVET more relevant to the needs of the economy and the labour market by supporting national actors to develop training curricula that are responsive to the market demand for skills. The second pillar is to enhance the quality of TVET delivered to trainees by building teaching staff and institutional capacity. The third objective is to improve perceptions of TVET among young people, enterprises, and society to increase its attractiveness as an educational option.
Across the four countries, the project targets supporting at least 16 TVET centres, providing capacity-building for 1,000 stakeholders, training 400 instructors, and organizing 20 initiatives to enhance the perception of TVET. The formulation phase of the BEAR III project, consisted of extensive groundwork, including scoping missions and pre-validation workshops in each beneficiary country. This phase involved wide consultations with stakeholders, resulting in the development of tailored country-specific work plans, underpinned by a sectoral approach to address the unique challenges of each country's Technical and Vocational Education and Training landscape.
