📋 Tender Overview
DARYA is the first EU-funded regional project to focus entirely on measures that support inclusive and labour market relevant skills development opportunities for young people in Central Asia. Starting in June 2022, DARYA will be active over the next five years in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Background and key challenges that DARYA addresses:
Already prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people in Central Asia faced a number of challenges to access quality skills development opportunities. As a consequence, many young people have been relegated to employment in low wage sectors or inactivity, while for some migration represents the only opportunity to find employment. Young people are among those most affected by the COVID-19 crisis both as participants in education and training but also as young labour market entrants and migrants.
DARYA will:
? focus on measures that support inclusive and labour market relevant skills development
opportunities for young people in Central Asia
? cover activities at national and regional or multi-country level
Objectives:
DARYA will contribute to post-COVID recovery in Central Asia by fostering improved employability of young people in the region through inclusive and labour-market oriented skills development.
DARYA will:
1. Foster the quality and inclusiveness of education, training and employment systems in
Central Asia
2. Foster participatory and inclusive dialogue and cooperation mechanisms at national and
regional level
Implementation and actors:
DARYA is an EU funded project implemented by the European Training Foundation (ETF), a specialised agency of the European Union based in Turin, Italy.
The ETF will work closely with stakeholders is Central Asia : National authorities in charge of Vocational education and training (VET), skills development, employment and labour market policies; agencies in charge of qualifications and quality assurance; social partners ; civil society organisations engaged in skills development; national statistical bodies and expertise organisations.
DARYA will also work in partnership with EU Member States and the development partner community.
DARYA is articulated around three thematic modules:
Forward-looking skills development through better evidence and analysis of education and training outcomes and skills needs
? Mapping and review of available data in education, training, labour market, demography and the economy, covering data sources and key indicators. Analysis and review of country systems and approaches to skills needs identification and anticipation
? Refinement and use of skills identification and anticipation instruments to support a better match between skills supply and demand
? Cross-country research on skills for the future in the Central Asian region and provision of advice on strengthening of existing data collection related to education and the labour market
? Means to enhance t
