Thursday, November 20

2008


Our participant's organisations
1) The Multilateral agencies
2) The Bilateral agencies and other partners
Other sites of interest focusing on skills, TVET and knowledge

The Multilateral agencies
>> Centro Interamericano de Investigación y Documentación sobre Formación Profesional (CINTERFOR), ILO
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>> Development Assistance Committee of the OECD
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You may find on this web site some online papers related to skills development issues
The OECD Development Centre
>> Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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The pages on education are part of the Sustainable Development Department (SD) which serves as a global reference centre for knowledge and advice on biophysical, biological, socio-economic and social dimensions of sustainable development. Contains online documents on related education, skills and knowledge issues in agriculture.
The educational pages
>> European Commission - DG Development
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>> Inter-American Development Bank.
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The IADB education sector policy and studies.
The IADB's page on education
The IADB labor and training sector policy and studies.
The IADB's page on labor and training
>> International Labour Office
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The International Labour Office's Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability seeks to promote greater investment in skills and training so that men and women have enhanced and equal access to productive and decent work. These pages have a lot of resources, links, online documents, etc.
The ILO sub-page for knowledge, skills and employability
>> International Finance Corporation (The World Bank Group)
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>> United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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The UNESCO programme for technical and vocational education (TVET)
UNESCO's sub-pages on Technical and Vocational Education
>> International Institute for Education Planning, UNESCO
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>> UNEVOC is UNESCO's International Project on Technical and Vocational Education
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Full text versions of UNEVOC Publications and related documents.
UNEVOC online papers
>> United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
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The educational resources of the Unicef web site.
The Unicef education pages
>> World Bank group
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The World Bank perspective on educational and knowledge issues. Papers, case studies, country analysis, links.
The World Bank pages on training and education

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The Bilateral agencies and other partners
>> Aga Khan Development Network
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Presentation of the Aga Khan Foundation perspectives and services on education.
The Aga Khan page on Education
>> Austrian Development Cooperation Agency (ÖEZA)
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>> French Development Agency
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The French Development Agency's strategy for vocational education
AFD's publication page offers documents on TVET, both in French and in English. See the Working papers and the Notes and documents.
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>> Austrian Foundation for Development Research
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>> Canadian International Development Agency
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CIDA's gate to web pages focusing on development topics including education and training. Links, statistics, documents.
CIDA's virtual library
>> Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
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>> Commonwealth Secretariat
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The forthcoming educational pages of the Secretariat.
The Commonwealth education pages
>> Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark: Danish Development Policy
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>> Departement for International Development Co-operation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland
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>> Department for International Development, UK
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>> French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Development Aid pages
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>> European Training Foundation
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>> German Agency for Cooperation
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The GTZ's decentralised knowledge management system which contains information about projects, people and organisations. Online you will find a forum, publications, links, etc.
The Competency based Economies through Formation of Enterprise (CEFE)
>> InWEnt: Capacity Building International
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>> Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva
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>> Japan International Cooperation Agency
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JICA's policy, projects, case studies by country.
The JICA pages on education
>> Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
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Norad's page on education
>> Swedish International Cooperation Agency
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The SIDA pages on Education
>> Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
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>> United States Agency for International Development
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The USAID page on education, universities and training

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>> For international and Swiss related sites, please visit the following page :


http://www.vetnet.ch/Links/links.htm
>> ADEA
The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) has a very comprehensive site on education, non-formal education and TVET issues in Africa.
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The ADEA's working group on non-formal education:
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>> GEFOP
Le GEFOP est un groupe d'experts de la formation porfessionnelle issus des pays d'Europe, d'Afrique et d'Asie ainsi que des grandes institutions internationales. La page consacrée aux actualités de la formation porfessionnelle propose des synthèses d'études et de documents stratégiques des agences.
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>> African Development Bank

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The AFDB page on education
>> Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

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The agenda on education
>> CEREQ
The homepage of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ) is a complete site where some interesting publications on training and employment are available.
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>> CONFEMEN
The web site of the Conference des Ministres de l'Education des Pays ayant le Français en Partage (CONFEMEN) proposes some publications on Technical and Vocational Education and Training issues.
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>> Donor Committee for SED
The Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development has some interesting links and publications.
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>> ENTERWEB
Links, sources of information on small business, finance, international trade, entrepreneurship, enterprise development and the economy. Excellent Web gateway.
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>> IREDU, Institut de Recherche sur l'Economie de l'Education
La réflexion de l'IREDU porte sur les moyens de définir et de mettre en forme la fonction de production de l'école et à suggérer des substitutions entre facteurs en vue d'améliorer l'efficacité interne du système. Un accent est actuellement mis dans les travaux pour prendre en compte la diversité de la fonction de production d'école.
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IREDU's publication page
>> IVETA
The International Vocational Educational Training Association is an organization and network of vocational educators, vocational skills training organizations, business and industrial firms, and other individuals and groups interested or involved in vocational education and training worldwide.
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>> Sociology of Knowledge
This website from the U. of Colorado at Denver offers definitions and many ressources focusing on knowledge with a sociological approach.
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>> Redetis is a network based in Argentina which focus on education, employment and social insertion in Latin America.
RedEtis
>> CITY & GUILDS CENTRE FOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
The City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development is an independent, not-for-profit research and development body which is committed to improving the policy and practice of skills education and training worldwide. The centre uses research to promote good practice and to influence and inform policy in skills education and training.
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