TVET and ICT

Olaf Erz
IICD Country Representatieve
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 25.06.2014

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 What is IICD?

•  IICD – a Dutch NGO/Foundation

–  use of ICTs as a tool to address development in a
sustainable way
•  IICD – 20 years of experience; ICT for development
•  Mission – enable 15 million people by 2015
–  Economic Development/Agriculture
–  Education
–  Health
–  Gender and youth entrepreneurship as cross-cutting themes
•  Currently IICD supports +90 projects in 12 countries in
Africa and Latin America
•  Country Office in Ethiopia since March 2013

ICT enables people take charge of their own development

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 Area of expertise in Ethiopia
•  Economic
Project/programs
q  C4C-DGIS
q  CSI-WB
q  CNFA-USAID
q  G4AW-DGIS
q  Terrafina MF

•  Education
Project/programs
q  C4C-DGIS
q  CAMARA
q  NCS

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 IICD’s Social Innovation process

To increase sustainability
IICD puts emphasis on
people-centred capacity
enhancement in the use
of ICTs through
application of its social
innovation approach,
theory of change.

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 Aims & Services

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 EMIS-solution
•  Enhancing educational mgt’
•  Improving teaching learning
process
q  Lesson plan
q  Student history/Grade Reports
q  Documentations
•  System Features
q  Administration
q  Teacher
q  Library
q  Resource Centre
q  Registrar

Improved mgt’ –> improve teaching and learning

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 COAS solution

COAS Career
Opportunity
Advisory
Services

Act upon the information and knowledge

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 Experience from Uganda

JOBoYo - IT CAREER GUIDANCE TOOL

Target Group
Goal Young people (age
Young people
12-18) in Uganda,
improve their especially primary
chances of
school leavers/
entering the graduates who will
world of work
not find a placement
using JOBoYo
within the post
primary education
and training system,
as well as those
- occupational profiles currently seeking
employment.
- micro scale business start-ups
- vocational education and training options

Opportunities for a better future

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 Career guidance for young people
Guidance assists young people to integrate successfully
into the labor market by helping them to:
–  identifying and explore their strengths and talents;
–  develop appropriate educational and vocational training plans;
–  achieve and complete their plans in the world of work;

Guidance is important for an effective education and

training system because:
–  it helps to promote a wide range of occupations and careers
–  it thereby ensures that the young people make the best use of
given market opportunities

Guidance helps to increase the skills of the labor force

and therefore the economic potential of a country

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 TVET and ICT

•  ICT can help training providers to run more effectively

•  ICT can make the training provision more competitive
–  but it won't make a bad provider to perform better

Improve Competence of TVET using ICT

Emphasis is on
•  ICT awareness
•  Basic ICT skills
–  accessing relevant information and improving communications
•  Application of training modules
–  (video, audio, e.g. processing)
•  Administration
–  record keeping and financial management

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 Why is information important…
Our whole world – including organisations – run on resources
Four tangible resources:
· Money
· People
· Materials
· Technology
And one intangible resource
· Information

Information is critical for

· Decision making
· Learning
Without good quality information
•  bad decisions are made
•  learning does not occur

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 …Why is information important?
How does information poverty affect TVET?
–  Directors fail to make decisions/make the wrong decisions
–  Directors fail to learn or learn the wrong things
–  Directors waste money, waste time, lose out on income
and, often, go out of business.

Result if directors can access better quality information;

information that is more CARTA:
–  more complete and/or
–  more accurate and/or
–  more relevant and/or
–  more timely and/or
–  more appropriately presented?

=>Then costs can go down and the output is better.

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 How can we support ATVET

–  Organizational and individual

Sharing of good practices

•  ICT needs assessment
•  ICT formulation and implementation
–  Spearheading ICT related capacity building
–  Identifying and adapting ICT solutions
–  Advice and coaching

–  Organizational and institutional

•  Change management process
•  Policy development
•  Monitoring, evaluation and learning

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 Olaf Erz
Country Representative

Website: www.iicd.org
Email: oerz@iicd.org

Thank you!

People - ICT – Development

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