[{"bbox": [96, 181, 1164, 369], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2022 Gender Country Profile commissioned by the EU points to the impact that the fragile education system is having in women: 'the high rate of illiteracy among women, around 84% in the countryside, is a major obstacle to achieve transformative gender changes that the ambitious goals of GAP III¹⁰ aim to realize' and recommends 'for women's citizen participation, it is necessary to impose the existence of literacy activities in all EU-funded projects and programmes for the populations in Guinea-Bissau, with relevant content on laws and human rights, as well as procedures for complaints of violence against women that would quickly increase the awareness of rural populations about the content of gender policies'."}, {"bbox": [96, 381, 1163, 435], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the Action:"}, {"bbox": [96, 446, 1164, 636], "category": "Text", "text": "At the national level, the Action targets national quality assurance, and good governance in education and TVET, therefore it will work directly with national authorities, specifically public administration in the key ministries. These duty-bearers include, in particular: Ministry of National Education (MEN), Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESIC), Ministry of Public Administration and Labour (MAPTESS), Ministry for Territorial Administration and Local Authorities (MTALA), Ministry of Finance (MF), Ministry of Women, Family and Social Solidarity, Regional Education Directorates, National Institute for the Development of Education, National Agencies for the development of Vocational Training and Chamber of Commerce."}, {"bbox": [96, 673, 1164, 967], "category": "Text", "text": "As long-standing, recognised partners of trust by the government, interventions in good governance on education will involve directly Camões I.P., the Portuguese Cooperation Agency as one of the partners in the country working in the area and the Portuguese non-governmental organisation (NGO) FEC - Fé e Cooperação, working in Guinea-Bissau for more than 15 years in basic education and school management, and currently implementing the EU project 'Planeamento, estatísticas e sistemas de informação ao serviço do desenvolvimento da educação na Guiné-Bissau - PESIDE', focusing on planning, statistics and information systems for education development in Guinea-Bissau. To ensure complementarities and avoid overlapping of interventions, other important Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) will be consulted, notably the World Bank working on basic education, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNICEF working on good governance, and the NGOs ADPP Guiné-Bissau, Humanité & Inclusion and Plan International working on out of school children and inclusive education, among other areas."}, {"bbox": [96, 990, 1164, 1099], "category": "Text", "text": "In the area of TVET, the key institutional stakeholders are the MEN with its national agency INAFOR - Instituto Nacional de Formação Técnica e Profissional (accreditation of training centres), and the Ministry of Public Administration and Labour MAPTESS with its agency for employment and vocational training AGEFP - Agência Guineense de Emprego e Formação Profissional (strategy and curricula, in collaboration with the private sector)."}, {"bbox": [96, 1123, 1164, 1364], "category": "Text", "text": "One of their core interlocutors in the past years has been ENABEL, the Belgian Cooperation Agency, which is implementing the EU project RESET since 2020. Other stakeholders include the NGOs involved in the implementation of TVET programmes (ADPP - Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo, ENGIM - Ente Nazionale Giuseppini del Murialdo, Essor, SOS Kinderdorf), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), whose new Strategy for TVET (2022-2029) for Africa now also includes Guinea-Bissau. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) - which Guinea-Bissau joined as member in 1977 - is not active in the country (no permanent representative nor regular field missions), however some synergies will be explored, notably through the possible adoption of the TREE - Training for Rural Economic Empowerment - methodology in TVET provision."}, {"bbox": [96, 1389, 1164, 1470], "category": "Text", "text": "Further cooperation agencies from non-EU countries, such as Brazil, Morocco and Turkey, have recently entered the vocational training sector as training providers, as a consequence of strengthened diplomatic ties under the new President and ensuing memoranda signed between respective governments."}, {"bbox": [96, 1494, 1164, 1549], "category": "Text", "text": "Transversally, the Action will enhance CSOs' advocacy and awareness raising role with respect to education and TVET policies, in particular benefiting youth, women and girls (considered as rights-holders), including returning"}, {"bbox": [85, 1596, 1144, 1644], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁰ The EU Gender Action Plan (GAP III) was adopted by 24 Member States through the Presidency Council Conclusion on 16 December 2020."}, {"bbox": [1130, 1655, 1144, 1676], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "7"}]