Project Description
This assignment supports mutual recognition of TVET qualifications among IGAD Member States, with a focus on Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan. The project aims to improve cross-border mobility, employability, and access to livelihoods—particularly for refugees, returnees, migrants, and host communities—by ensuring that vocational skills and competencies can be formally recognised across borders.
Building on the IGAD Qualifications Framework (IGADQF) and the region’s commitments under the Djibouti Declaration, the assignment strengthens transparency, comparability and trust in TVET systems. It addresses barriers faced by displaced populations in having their skills validated and supports Member States in aligning selected TVET programmes with IGADQF standards, including quality assurance, RPL, CATS, and level descriptors. The work spans three key urban hubs—Mogadishu, Nairobi, and Juba—reflecting their importance for labour markets and displacement dynamics.
The assignment contributes to IGAD’s broader goals of enabling regular migration, advancing the Regional Qualifications Framework, and supporting the implementation of regional education and migration policies that promote economic integration and inclusive access to skills recognition.
Provided Services
m4edu delivers a comprehensive technical and facilitation package to advance mutual recognition of TVET qualifications across the region:
- Review and analysis of existing evidence
- Identification and justification of TVET programmes for cross-border recognition
- Design of methodology for adapting TVET programmes to the IGADQF
- Development of guidelines for mutual recognition
- Integration of gender priorities in line with the IGADQF Gender Addendum
- Design of a strategy for a regional platform on qualifications
- Stakeholder engagement and multi-country consultations
m4edu is committed to strengthening IGAD Member States’ capacity to systematically recognise skills across borders—enhancing labour mobility, improving livelihoods, and supporting regional integration in East Africa.
