All roads led to Don Bosco Technical Youth Institute for TEVET stakeholders on 16th July. STEP successfully facilitated a highly attended TEVET stakeholders’ meeting at the institute, a venue which was hardly known earlier by most of the stakeholders. The meeting was attended by gurus of the industry, mostly the construction
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Training Fund Report – Findings and recommendations to be presented to stakeholders soon
The Department for Technical and Vocational Training (DTVT) and STEP together with TEVETA met on 11th July to listen to a presentation of the draft report on ‘Proposal for a New Training Fund Governance Arrangement Involving Employers, Workers and Other Stakeholders.’ The consultancy on the training fund was initiated by STEP and this
STEP hints on reviving the TEVET Advisory Committees in Malawi
Stakeholders in the TEVET sector in Malawi have agreed on the need to improve the way Trade Advisory Committees –TACs and Sector Advisory Committees – SACs operate in the country for them to bring the desired change to the sector. This has been established on Monday, June 25, 2018, at
Guidance and Counselling in Secondary Schools
Jean Munro, a specialist with the STEP team, on June 30th, 2018 worked with Domasi College of Education on how best to deliver the Career Guidance module for secondary school teacher trainees. The trainees said that when they were in school, they had never experienced support in selecting a career
Don Bosco Youth Technical Institute Takes a Strong Stand Against Gender Based Violence
As part of the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women in November 2017, STEP supported the training of some members of TEVET Student Councils. The Student Council members went back to their colleges and ran training sessions with other students or held GBV prevention awareness raising activities.
STEP Represented at EU Day’s Event
Skills and Technical Education Programme -STEP staff attended this year’s Europe Day. The EU delegation in Malawi invited staff from STEP to set up an information booth at the EU Day event in Lilongwe on May 9th. STEP was one of several projects funded by the EU that had a
Creating Ngwazi Zazikazi Through TEVET
Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development Mr. Joseph Mwandidya is in Nairobi, Kenya attending a Pan African High-Level Conference on Education (PACE). This year’s conference provides an opportunity to share progress, success stories, challenges and lessons learned by Member States thus far and to
UNEVOC consultant debriefs on plans for TEVET management training
Dr. Robert Palmer, a consultant hired as part of the EU funded Skills and Technical Education Programme, is shown debriefing members of the Department of Technical Education and Training and the STEP team on his assignment. Dr. Palmer who is working with UNEVOC in Bonn to assist STEP with its
Promoting Inclusive Education
Building on the findings of the Situational Analysis on the Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health of Students and Gender-Based Violence in Technical and Vocational Colleges in Malawi and the Gender and Inclusion Study, STEP is working with the Department of Technical and Vocational Education and Training to develop a
Visit to STEP by official from Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
On Wednesday, March 11th, the STEP team welcomed Ms. Marit Halsvik Lillealtern, Senior Advisor, Section on UN Policy of the Norwegian MFA to their office. Ms. Lillealtern, who was visiting Malawi with a delegation from Norway had asked for time to discuss our programme’s work and relations with other UN