Identifying opportunities

The overarching goal of VET Toolbox is to demonstrate that local skills development systems can be flexible and more responsive to the labour market’s needs. When skills systems deliver the competent local workforce needed to support investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, foreign capital can create local benefits, including decent jobs and income generation. As a predecessor of the Team Europe Initiative “Opportunity-driven skills and Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Africa” (TEI OP-VET), VET Toolbox is piloting an opportunity-driven approach to VET, linking skills development with investment opportunities for local value creation through employment. Identifying promising investment opportunities for decent employment is the starting point of VET Toolbox´s pilot projects. Different methodologies and approaches towards opportunity identification and exploration have been applied by the implementing VET Toolbox agencies.