| Project Detail |
The development objectives of the Skills Development Support Project for Mauritania are to improve the quality and efficiency of training institutions and create an enabling environment for a more market-driven technical and vocational education training (TVET) system. The additional financing (AF) will help finance the costs associated with: (i) rehabilitation, moderate expansion, and equipment of four TVET centers (22 percent of public TVET centers under the Ministry of Employment, Vocational Training, and Technologies of Information and Communication (Ministere de l Emploi, de la Formation Professionnelle et des Technologies d Information et de la Communication - MEFPTIC)); (ii) scaling up of performance-based contracts (PBCs) with public TVET centers from 8 to 14 centers; (iii) scaling up of apprenticeship programs from 4,780 to 6,500 beneficiaries; (iv) scaling up of the number of students graduating from TVET institutions supported by the project from 5,161 to 9,411; and (v) implementation of a broad plan for human resources (HR) development in the TVET sector. |
