UNEVOC Connect

A guide for sector planners
In 2024, an estimated 116 million people required humanitarian assistance due to conflicts, climate change and public health emergencies (UN OCHA Annual Report, 2024). Amid escalating global crises, the education and training sector needs to respond ...

Newsletter - December 2025
This edition, the Inter-Agency Group is casting its spotlight on activities implemented in the Asia-Pacific region, as the second IAG-TVET meeting takes place on the 2 December 2025, in Manila, hosted by the Asian Development Bank. In this Newslet ...

Discussion paper
Migration is increasing due to political and economic instability, with the Arab States experiencing a substantial rise in refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons. In response, this study, initiated by UNESCO-UNEVOC in collaboration with ...

This guide provides actionable strategies for building inclusive TVET systems. It promotes collaboration among NGOs, private sector actors and education providers to ensure no learner is left behind. This hands-on guide shows how to move beyond ident ...

Cedefop-UNEVOC practical guide 4
This publication is the fourth in a series of practical Cedefop skills anticipation guides for policymakers, analysts, and expert professionals. The three previous guides presented a rich mosaic of conventional and emerging methods for identifying te ...

The Inter-Agency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET), originally convened by UNESCO in 2008, aims to ensure a good coordination of activities by the key international organizations involved in the delivery of policy ad ...

These Greening TVET guidelines provide a comprehensive framework to promote sustainable development within TVET institutions. By showing how to embed environmental sustainability and gender equity into institutional practices, the guidelines aim to e ...

This gender-transformative TVET guideline reflects UNESCO’s commitment to an education system that not only equips learners with essential skills for the workforce but also empowers marginalized communities – particularly women and girls – thro ...

Report of the baseline study
The Government of South Sudan, in collaboration with UNESCO, is implementing a project with the aim of strengthening TVET in South Sudan. The project commissioned a baseline study to engage stakeholders in an in-depth discussion to unpack what they c ...

Making education more accessible and affordable with OER
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) formed an Open Access Team to promote high-quality, open access materials. The team included a faculty coordinator, library liaison, student ambassador and part-time faculty as ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC/Cedefop practical guide Vol 1
This practical guidance was developed jointly by UNESCO-UNEVOC and Cedefop, with contributions from experts and partners in TVET. The online resource offers solutions for enhancing a TVET system's response to meet the needs for the green transition. ...

25 February to 01 March 2019
Discussions at UNESCO-UNEVOC’s Learning Forum underlined that new and radical shifts are needed to ensure that TVET systems can respond to these changes and that TVET systems can no longer just operate according to a ‘business-as-usual’ model. ...

Key highlights of the UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Learning Forum
At the international conference in Tangshan in 2017, UNESCO put a spotlight on the factors shaping the future technical and vocational education and training (TVET) landscape. These included shifts in the development paradigm towards sustainable deve ...

Capacity building for transformational TVET leaders: Vision, knowledge and skills
The following report gives an overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC's TVET Leadership Programme 2018, held in Bonn, Germany, from 25 June to 6 July.

16 to 24 July 2018
Organized on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day 2018, the virtual conference focused on improving the image of TVET and initiated, guided and synthesised a range of perspectives, evidence and advice about the factors influencing the image of TVET ...

Strategic Plan 2018–2020
UNESCO-UNEVOC’s second Medium-Term Strategy for the period 2018-2020 sets out how the International Centre will support governments and institutions to transform their TVET systems and successfully reach the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. ...

Handbook: Open Educational Resources for skills development
Digital technology is gaining in importance - not only in life and work, but also in education and training. The availability of quality educational materials to prepare learners for work and life is a key factor to ensure an inclusive and equitable ...

This Biennial Report gives a comprehensive overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC's activities in technical and vocational education and training over the biennium 2016-2017.

March 2018
The eighth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter puts in focus a recent TVET conference and the resulting updated skills agenda, as well as issues related to greening and quality assurance.

23 to 27 October 2017
The topic of ‘pathways’ that make it easier for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) graduates to enter different forms of post secondary and higher education, has recently been receiving much attention by policy makers in many ...

5 to 11 June 2017
The virtual conference took place from 05 to 11 June 2017 on the UNESCO-UNEVOC TVeT Forum, and shed light on how countries in Latin America are responding to climate-change policy developments, and the role TVET can play in this regard. The synth ...

A practical guide for institutions
This Guide describes the macro need for TVET reform in conformity with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and other United Nations, UNESCO and national initiatives. The ...

The Education for All initiative concluded in 2015, but in many countries, and particularly in the developing countries, secondary education is still the preserve of the privileged few. This means that millions of adults and young people are denied t ...

16 to 22 January 2017
The Virtual Conference organized from 16 – 22 January 2017 on the topic of “Diversifying the funding sources for TVET” was attended by 219 participants from 81 countries. It facilitated the sharing of experiences, tools and best practices on fu ...

18 to 29 July, 2016
The virtual conference sought to collect input from the wider technical and vocational education and training (TVET) community about the role of TVET in promoting entrepreneurship. In order to increase our understanding of the nature of entrepreneurs ...