📋 Tender Overview
Albania is reforming the vocational education and training as well as employment services to increase people’s employability, particularly of women, youth as well as people with disabilities and low-income. This final phase puts the focus on strengthening the capacities of the line ministry and its subordinated national agencies as well as on consolidating, upscaling and transferring the developed policies and regulations as well as best practices to complete the reform process.
Background
Albania’s population has witnessed contraction and aging in the recent years. The economy expanded in 2021 and labour force participation increased to 72%; with an unemployment rate of 12%. Long-term unemployment remains high.
VET has undergone foundational reforms, especially in its legal and quality assurance framework. Yet, VET attractiveness as an educational pathway remains modest. Private sector does not yet engage sufficiently to make the VET sector more labour market relevant.
There is momentum to improve the VET and employment sector. Building the capacities of the newly assigned staff of the line ministry and its national agencies is crucial. Based on the achievements of the previous phases, and in the Skills for Jobs project at provider level, Switzerland is very well positioned to support the positive change.
Objectives Young and adult women and men have increased employability due to improved attractiveness and labour market relevance of inclusive employment services and VET offer.
Target groups The project’s direct target group are the key national actors (Ministry of Finance and Economy and its subordinated national agencies) in charge of VET and employment promotion. All VET population (17’000 students and 11’000 adults) and Active Labour Market Measures beneficiaries (5.4% of the registered jobseekers) of Albania are expected to benefit from an improved VET offer driven by labour demand. Specific targeted measures are designed to increase the employability of women as well as people in low-income households and with disability.
Medium-term outcomes
National institutions effectively implement the sector’s policy framework and optimize delivery with innovative tools and financing instruments.
National institutions deliver individualised and data-driven employment policies and ALMMs, in partnership with the labour market ecosystem.
Public and private actors involved in the VET system use a standardised and harmonised quality assurance and development framework for self-assessment, accreditation, inspection, and monitoring.
Results Expected results:
Improved capacities of the national institutions to implement the strategic and regulatory package for VET/employ. promotion
A participatory approach governs the implementation of an optimized VET system.
Engaged labour market ecosystem promotes VET and employment at all levels.
Intelligence on skills develop. and employment is regularly available to policy makers
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