Stakeholders In Liberia’s Education Sector Revise TVET Policy

Key stakeholders in the technical vocation education sector in Liberia have reviewed the previous five-year policy and have revised it for the next five years, beginning from 2022 to 2027 in order to meet current day reality.

Revision and subsequently adoption of the new five years policy was done recently following a one-day working session held at the Boulevard Palace in Monrovia.

During the one-day session, the stakeholders reviewed the 2015 TVET policy, which ran between September 2015 and December 2020, and from 1st – 10th June 2021.

With deeper review of the previous policy, stakeholders were able to identify the gaps in the content and implementation of the 2015 TVET policy and how these gaps could be filled by focusing on the current economic environment and labour market skills needs to further strengthen the TVET system in Liberia.

Both missions were commissioned by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the request of the Government of Liberia.

The aim was to improve the governance and regulatory framework of the TVET sector by creating an enabling environment for the acquisition of employable skills for the world of work by all categories of learners, including the youth, adults, the unemployed, and person with disability (PWD).

It also seeks to create a robust, yet flexible human capacity development system that is open to the changing needs of the labour market and produce a highly skilled workforce that gears to make Liberian industries, products, and services increasingly competitive in the local, regional, and global markets.

The one-day meeting was also attended by the Regional Advisor for Higher Education and ICT at UNESCO, Abuja Regional Office, Abdoulaye Salifou, who spoke on behalf of Dr. Dimitri Sanga, Director of UNESCO Regional Office for West Africa.

Salifou congratulated the Liberian government and the Inter-Ministerial Task Force (IMTF) on TVET for prioritizing education and TVET in the face of the many developmental challenges facing Liberia.