📋 Tender Overview
Switzerland has distinguished itself since 2013 by the impetus of innovative training models with a practical dominance, ensuring a professional integration rate of 70%. The intervention marks Switzerland's desire to continue its efforts in favor of the modernization of vocational training in Tunisia, through increased involvement of the private sector and by positioning post-graduate vocational training as an attractive element of the training system. institutionalized that targets a wider range of beneficiaries.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Tunisia
Vocational training
Employment & economic development
Vocational training
Employment creation
Business support & economic inclusion
01.10.2020 - 31.10.2026
CHF 9’995’975
Background Vocational training (VT) is an alternative and a guarantee of decent socio-professional integration for young women and men in Tunisia. The diversification of opportunities for the latter improves living conditions and contributes to social stability. Vocational training was one of the first areas in which Swiss Cooperation became involved after the Tunisian revolution, with the creation in 2012 of the "Training and Professional Integration Program in Tunisia (PFIPT)" which made it possible to bring several innovations in the Tunisian vocational training system by introducing post-diploma training complementary to initial vocational training. Above all, it has been able to demonstrate convincing and stable results in terms of employability and professional integration; to this is added a real potential for dissemination with already significant advances in terms of financing and institutionalization of the training courses put in place. Support from national partners is strong with a strong foothold in the private sector. This investment makes Switzerland the 3th funder in the VT sector making the difference with practical offers, close to the demand of the labor market. Switzerland brings its expertise in vocational training, in particular through the involvement of the private sector, inspired by the dual system. The new TAKWEEN program, which responds to the request of the Tunisian ministry in charge of vocational training, marks Switzerland's desire to continue its efforts to improve the employability and professional integration of young Tunisians thanks to to an effective and attractive VT system, making it possible to induce significant structural changes through better institutional anchoring.
Objectives Vocational training is more attractive thanks to an efficient vocational training system known to the public, with new post-diploma possibilities. This makes it possible to improve the employability of young Tunisians and leads to effective professional integration as well as sustainable economic growth thanks to the involvement of private actors and public-private partnerships.
Target groups The direct beneficiaries are young Tunisians, graduates or in training, unemployed, promoters of a
