Skills for work and life

Welcome and opening

• Friedrich Huebler, Head of UNESCO-UNEVOC
• Jeanette Burmester, Team Leader, Sector Project TVET, GIZ

Forum agenda, project overview and summary of project milestones

• Project wrap-up video
• Manish Joshi, Project Officer, UNESCO-UNEVOC
  Presentation - Project overview and milestones

Linking inclusion with entrepreneurial learning for sustainable economic development

Re-orienting TVET policy and practice towards inclusion in entrepreneurship training for a just and sustainable economic transition

• Overview by Priscilla Wanjiku Gatonye, Programme Officer - Inclusion and Youth, UNESCO-UNEVOC
  Presentation - Mainstreaming inclusive​ entrepreneurial and sustainable economic resilience in TVET​

Panel discussion featuring selected project participants:

• Gabriel S Konayuma, Senior Vocational Education and Training Officer (Entrepreneurship); Ministry of Technology and Science, Lusaka, Zambia
• Lawrence Mukhongo, Deputy Director - Academic Quality Assurance TVET, Technical University of Mombasa, Kenya
• Doris Mtemang'ombe, Technical Education Department - Faculty of Education and Media Studies, University of Malawi - The Polytechnic

Next steps and outline of the Policy Guide Document on Entrepreneurial Learning for Disadvantaged Youth:

• Jacqueline Kisato, Consultant, UNESCO-UNEVOC

Building resilience of TVET to prepare for market-relevant, green and inclusive economic growth
Modelling a technical assistance package for managing market systems analysis, improving organizational continuity, agility and financial sustainability and supporting TVET staff to develop demand-oriented curricula and training approaches

• Overview by Kenneth Barrientos, Programme Officer and Team Leader for SDGs and Greening TVET, UNESCO-UNEVOC
  Presentation - Building capacity of TVET institutions for a just and green transition through TA

Panel discussion on Building capacity of TVET institutions for market-relevant, green economic and inclusive growth: case examples

• Mattias Larsen/Karin Monaco, UNIDO and Quentin Dunstan, Senior Organizational Resilience Expert, UNIDO
  Presentation - The Organizational Resilience Framework

• Bojan Jovanovski, Project coordinator of GREENOVET and Senior Lecturer (FH) at FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences
  Presentation - GREENOVET – European VET Excellence Platform for Green Innovation

• Trajce Velkovski, Co-founder of National Centre for Development of Innovations and Entrepreneurial Learning (NCDIEL) and Assistant Professor at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, North Macedonia
  Presentation - Provision of Capacity Building for Teachers and Trainers on Green and Entrepreneurial Learning

Strengthening resilience post COVID through focus on work-based learning and technology enabled delivery

• Ivan Stojanović, Team Leader, Project DECIDE, GIZ Serbia

Making technology work for the most vulnerable
Developing Open and Distance Learning (ODL) strategies and embedding assistive technologies in TVET institutions for flexible and inclusive learning

• Overview by Robert Okinda, Advisor – Skills, Commonwealth of Learning
  Presentation - Building the capacity of TVET practitioners to design digital strategies and use digital tools to support inclusion in Small Island States

Panel discussion featuring selected project participants:

• Lynn Rollins Beckles, NCVQ Coordinator, Barbados Community College, Barbados
• Fridah Mulembe, Lecturer & Project Coordinator, TVTC, Zambia
• Dianne Chambers, Coordinator Special and Inclusive Education, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Insights from research:

• Tom M. Amonde, Research consultant, Jamaica
• Rachel Mindra Katoroogo, Dean, Faculty of Commerce, Makerere University Business School

Overcoming disruptions and building resilience – research insights

• Robert Palmer, Research Consultant, UNESCO-UNEVOC
  Presentation - TVET in the age of the polycrisis

Future actions and closing

• Virpi Stucki, Chief - Rural Entrepreneurship, Job Creation & Human Security Division, UNIDO
• Friedrich Huebler, Head of UNESCO-UNEVOC