Resources on education and skills development
NORRAG and The Working Group for International Co-operation in Skills Development:
(Below are the main reports of the WG. For further resources specifically related to skills development, please visit the WG web site. Please note that this site is no longer active).
Paper 13 The Role of International Cooperation in Education and Training for Work in Latin America (2008) Report of the Buenos Aires meeting (May 2008)
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Paper 12 Post-primary education and skills development (2007)
Report of the Paris meeting (November 2007)
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Paper 11 Skills Development Policies and International Cooperation in East and South East Asia (2007)
Report of the Hong Kong meeting (February 2007)
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Paper 10 Skills Development for Rural People: A Renewed Challenge (2005)
Report of the Rome meeting (November 2005)
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Paper 9 Reforming Training for Countries and Agencies (2004)
Report of the Turin meeting (July 2004)
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Paper 8 Skills for Life and Work (2004)
Report of the Bonn Meeting (April 2003)
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Paper 7 World Bank Study on : Vocational Skills Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Working Group Review (2003)
Report of the Edinburgh Meeting (October 2002)
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Paper 6 Linking Work Skills and Knowledge (2002)
Report of the Interlaken Meeting (September 2001)
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Paper 5 Poverty, growth and skills development: a focus on Latin America (2000)
Report of the Washington Meeting (May 2000).
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Paper 4 Sector Programme Support and Human and Institutional Development in Skills Development (1999)
Report of the Copenhagen meeting (June 1999).
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Paper 3 Donor Policies in Skills Development: Reforming Education and Training Policies and systems (1998)
Report of the Geneva meeting (April 1998).
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Paper 2 Donor Policies in Skills Development (1997)
Report of the London meeting (May 1997).
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Paper 1 Donor Policies in Skills Development (1997)
Report of the Frankfurt meeting (Nov. 1996).
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WG Secretariat, Donor Policies in TVET and Skills Development (2001)
A review (1996-2000), compiled by A. Dormeier Freire.
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NORRAG Conference on "Policy Transfer or Policy Learning: Interactions between International and National Skills Development Approaches for Policy Making", Geneva, June 2009
Synthesis of the conference prepared by Claudia Jacinto
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Below are the papers presented during this conference.
Key notes:
The International Market for Public Policies on Skills Development : The Special Case of India
Santosh Mehrotra
Between Autonomy and Dependence: “Policy Transfer” Dynamics in Sub-saharan Africa
Mahaman Tidjani Alou
Do training institutions learn from experience?
Claudio de Moura Castro
Case studies:
Albania: Sidita Dibra, Shyqyri Llaci & Jorida Tabaku
Nicaragua: Melba Castillo & Ana Elvir
Peru: Miguel Jaramillo
South Africa: Adrienne Bird & Werner Heitman
Vietnam: Nguyen Loc
Other inputs:
Enrique Pieck
John Lauglo (2007)
Meeting on "The Brave New World of 'Emerging' Donors and their Support to Education & Skills Development", Bern, November 2010
Organised by NORRAG in collaboration with the Swiss Network for Education and International Cooperation (RECI)
Brazilian Technical Cooperation: formal versus informal