Education Skills Productive Tender

Scope The Education and Skills for Productive Jobs ESPJ program will support creation of Sector Skills Councils SSCs for each economic sector under the program as a platform for coordination and collaboration on skills within the sector. The sector skills councils will bring together all representatives of skills system stakeholders with employers playing a leading role and therefore create platforms with the aim of reviewing the past and present available skills within our labour work force and evaluate the changes required to meet current and future needs. The main aim being that to minimise the skill gaps that exist and build capacity of Tanzaniansto acquire competences required in the priority economic sectors.Currently Tanzania is implementing the National Skills Development Strategy NSDS 2016-2027 with a clear vision of having skilled competitive Tanzanian workforce capable of affectively fostering inclusive and sustainable socio-economic growth. The NSDS focuses on entrancement of skills development through targeted set of interventions at both system and service delivery levels and therefore it is the first comprehensive skills development strategy for Tanzania that addresses both formal and informal sector skills needs at all levels of education and training.Tanzania Private Sector Foundation TPSF has received financing from the Government of Tanzania through the Ministry of Education Science and Technology MoEST as oneof theimplementing partnersof Education and Skills for Productive Jobs ESPJin theNational Skills Development Strategy. To implement this program TPSFintends to apply a portion of this fundto cover eligible payments under the contract for the provision of consultancy services for development of framework for the establishment of the respective Sector Skills Councils SSCs in Tanzania.The framework for the Sector Skills Councils will then form as an input into the establishment of the National Skills Council NSC. The strategy thus covers the entire chain of skills for employability from informal and alternative approaches to formal skills development including apprenticeships entrepreneurship pre-employment vocational and technical education and training university education and postemployment upgrading of skills in the form of lifelong learning. It serves to complement operationalize and bring together for the first time in one-strategy different key skills development initiatives.In the process of implementation of NSDS TPSF has been mandated to coordinate the establishment of Sector Skills Councils SSCs in the country. This is a very key initiative that will create Public-Private Partnership PPP for skills development in the country. The said SSCs will act as an aggregator of industry interests bringing together individual firms business associations training providers relevant ministries departments a