Strengthening the TVET System in Myanmar (TVET II)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

TVET II is a follow-on measure to the project, Strengthening the TVET System in Myanmar (Project no. 2012.2480.7) with a term from September 2012 to December 2016. It makes up a module component of the development cooperation programme, Sustainable Economic Development in Myanmar. BMZ has no country strategy. Three of the fields of activity so far (1. Introducing needs-based training at the Industrial Training Centre – ITC in Sinde; 2. Strengthening NSSA and policy advice) will be continued. The third field of activity on cooperation between the government and the private sector in TVET will not be continued as such, but assimilated as an important cross-cutting theme into the fields of activity of this project. In addition, other selected vocational schools under the purview of MoE will be promoted in close cooperation with KfW and a new field of activity for strengthening teacher training will be carried out. A continuation of the measure is envisaged.

The project objective is: The provision of vocational training and certification facilities for employment has been improved in selected regions of Myanmar.

More specifically, the objectives for the four fields of activity are as follows:

- Field of activity (1) ‘Policy advice’ aims at strengthening the capacities of central actors from the government and from business and industry to improve the framework for employable TVET that is also compatible with the future ASEAN Economic Community – AEC.

- Field of activity (2) ‘Standards and certification’, aims at enabling NSSA to institutionalize and manage an effective and efficient system for the assessment and certification of occupational skills.

- Field of activity (3) ‘Vocational training personnel’ aims at improving the in-service training facilities at TPTC Belin and contribute to its future development into a national training institute for technical teachers up to Bachelor level and for in-service training of executive personnel at vocational schools.

The project target groups are male and female Burmese youth and young adults from all population groups aged 14 to 25 in the selected pilot locations. While the courses at ITC in Sinde are aimed at secondary-school leavers from across the country, the other locations target youth from the respective region seeking training at the participant MoE vocational schools.

The target group also comprises job-seeking or employed youth and young adults lacking a school-leaving certificate and looking to improve their employability through further training or certification of their occupational skills. Other target groups are technical teachers at vocational schools (about 1,400 at DTVE schools, 255 of whom men and 1,145 women) who could avail themselves of in-service training courses at TPTC in the medium and long term.

Other stakeholders comprise the specialist and executive personnel of public and private actors engaged in developing and/or implementing a TVET system geared to labour-market needs. These include vocational school teachers and school management staff, specialist and executive personnel of enterprises of relevance to the sector and private sector institutions.