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Enhancing employability through vocational
training (EEVT 2) – Tanzania
Background
In recent years, major deposits of natural resources, including gas
and oil, have been found in Tanzania. These discoveries, combined
with the Government’s ambition of transforming Tanzania into a
middle-income country by 2025, have ignited large capital invest-
ment projects in the country’s extractive industry and in adjacent
sectors. These new investment projects are creating a higher
demand for skilled workers, but currently there is a significant gap
between the skills provided by Tanzania’s technical and vocational
education system and those needed by the private sector to eco-
nomically exploit national resources in a way that benefits local
communities and progresses the country’s development.
E4D/SOGA has responded to the urgent need to address skills gaps
and information deficits by operating directly through Tanzania’s
public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
system, with the assistance of private training providers.
In consultation with the industry and with the Tanzanian govern-
mental agencies responsible for TVET, E4D/SOGA has been
providing demand-driven technical trainings, short courses
and matching activities. At the core of this intervention is the
Enhancing Employability through Vocational Training (EEVT)
project, which is implemented in Mtwara and Lindi, where there
are offshore gas deposits as well as increasing investments
in natural resource based and related industries.
The EEVT project supports nine technical trades and two short
courses in VETA centres in Lindi and Mtwara, and aims to get
at least 550 graduates into jobs. Phase 1 of the EEVT project,
implemented by the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Tanzania,
the Tanzanian Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA)
and private sector partners, ran between 2012 and 2015 and
achieved its key objective by improving the training quality of
six courses at VETA Mtwara and VETA Lindi training centres to
International Vocational Qualification (IVQ) Level 2. As a result of
the project, the proportion of young VETA graduates from Lindi
and Mtwara who found employment increased from 28 per cent
to 51 per cent. Phase 2 of the EEVT project, which is now being
implemented as part of the E4D/SOGA initiative, is building on
these successes.
The E4D/SOGA – Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa
Initiative at a glance
The E4D/SOGA – Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa
initiative aims to promote local employment and reduce the
local workforce’s skills gap in and around natural resource-
based industries and related sectors in Kenya, Mozambique,
Tanzania and Uganda.
The initiative cooperates with key stakeholders for employ-
ment, including international and domestic companies,
governments and local training providers, in its four
target countries.
It is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the UK Department
for International Development (DFID), the Norwegian
Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and
BG Group/Shell. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is
responsible for project implementation.
Our partners
VSO is a UK-based development organisation working with British
as well as international volunteers and supporting programmes
in education, health, business, participation and governance at
vocational training institutes (VTIs). With its extensive experience
in building VTIs’ capacities, the organisation provides market-
relevant training that enables young people to find decent
employment or set up their own businesses.
EEVT is implemented in training centres of the Tanzanian Vocational
Education and Training Authority (VETA) in Lindi and Mtwara.
On national level, VETA is key to ensure sustainability of this
E4D/SOGA intervention as they accredit the curricula, which are
then used by other VTIs, thus positively impacting the national
vocational education training system.
After successfully running phase 1 of EEVT, the BG Group was ac-
quired by Shell, a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company.
Shell continues to fund and advise the EEVT project in phase 2,
and provides internship opportunities to teachers and students.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft
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E4D/SOGA – Employment and
Skills for Eastern Africa
Christian Seitlinger
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Strategy and activities
The overall objective is to increase the vocational skills of the local
workforce. As this is phase 2 of the EEVT project, it builds on the
recommendations of two external evaluations of phase 1.
One of the main goals of phase 2 is to build stronger linkages with
the industry and establish cooperation agreements with private
sector companies. Such companies are extremely valuable to the
project because they and provide input on the process of aligning
standards and curricula to the industry’s needs.
Another key part of phase 2 is continuing to improve the quality of
the training facilities, in order to ensure the project is sustainable in
the long term. The two VETA centres in Lindi and Mtwara are set to
become internationally accredited providers of competency-based
technical, vocational and health and safety training courses. These
two centres are led by instructors and examiners who are fully
qualified and VETA-approved, and they offer workshops that are
regularly updated to comply with international standards – a key
requirement for practical training. VSO advisors provide coaching
and mentoring to teachers on topics such as lesson planning
and delivery to help improve the quality of teaching. Three VETA
long courses are expected to attain IVQ Level 3 or equivalent in
different trades. This will make it easy for students going through
them to more easily find employment in Tanzania’s natural
resource-based industries and its supply chains.
The centres also play a crucial role in assisting graduates with
apprenticeships and industry placements in national and interna-
tional companies that are based in Lindi and Mtwara. Furthermore,
beneficiaries of the EEVT project are offered career services including
job fairs, guidance and matching with private sector companies.
A database with details of graduates seeking employment has
been established to make it easier for private sector companies
to recruit for jobs.
Implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für
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E4D/SOGA – Employment and Skills for Eastern Africa
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Voluntary Service Overseas
(VSO) Tanzania
Nestory Maduhu
E nestory.maduhu@vsoint.org
Outcomes
Due to its success, phase 2 of the EEVT project has been extended
until December 2018. To date, over 520 (167 women) graduated in a
number of improved long courses, 263 (84 women) of whom are in
employment and 1,788 (572 women) had access to career services
through the two Kazi Connect career centers in the VETA centres
of Lindi and Mtwara. The project is driving employment. Partner-
ships with more than 230 companies have been set up, and these
companies have provided opportunities to at least 263 (84 women)
of the project’s graduates in jobs while 241 (77 women) students
and 7 teachers have benefitted from internship placements. By its
completion date, the EEVT project will have helped over 550 VETA
graduates find a job. It is expected that 75% of all EEVT graduates
gain employment within six months after completing their training,
and that graduates’ incomes increase by an average of 10%.
Furthermore, 135 (22 women) students have been trained and
gained health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) international
passports leading to an increase in health and safety standards.
Moreover, the EEVT 2 project has managed to established 2 HSSE
committees as well as an updated HSE policy at VETA Lindi and
Mtwara centres. The project has also established two career centres
to facilitate the placements of graduates and offer soft skills training,
career fairs and a job online platform.
By the end of the project, the graduates’ as well as teachers’ skills
level will have risen so that they will attain IVQ Level 3. HSSE will
also have increased due to a number of certified teachers and
students in international standards. In addition, the EEVT project
will have installed a well-reviewed curriculum and qualified trainers
to offer additional certified technical short courses.
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Objective: Improve the employability of young people in the Lindi and
Mtwara regions with a particular focus on the oil and gas
industry and the adjacent supply chain
Partners: VSO Tanzania, Tanzania LNG plant project, VETA,
companies for internships and placements
Duration: 2016 – 2018
On behalf of Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Jointly funded by
Tanzania LNG Plant Project