[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1134, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "Framework. The 9 TVET schools supported by the EU Youth Rising project and the Swedish supported school in the north are expected to boost their financial resources through their planned production units."}, {"bbox": [97, 232, 1134, 291], "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": [97, 301, 1134, 488], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Ministry of Education (MoE)** offers vocational education at the senior high school level (Grades 10 to 12) alongside general education, with some high schools also offering TVET for out of school youths under the Accelerated Vocational Training Programme (AVTP). The Department for Instructions is responsible for developing and implementing TVET programmes. It's Bureau of Science, Technology, Vocational and Special Education, in particular, is responsible for implementing TVET programmes at the pre-tertiary level in the public-school systems. It also has a supervisory oversight responsibility of TVET in the private sector and the responsibility to ensure that national standards are met."}, {"bbox": [97, 499, 1134, 607], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS)** operates vocational training centres offering short term training programmes. However, curricula and qualifications are currently not standardised. Typically, MoYS institutions target students who have dropped out of high school at or before Grade 10 for training at the basic skills level, while students who have completed at least Grade 10 qualify for training at the intermediate level."}, {"bbox": [97, 618, 1134, 699], "category": "Text", "text": "Other ministries involved in relevant TVET policy aspects are the Ministries of Finance and Development Planning; Labour; Commerce; Gender; and Agriculture, which also run non-formal or informal TVET programmes."}, {"bbox": [97, 710, 1134, 818], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Private Sector** is a key stakeholder in TVET, although at present it is not formally involved in TVET governance or TVET design and delivery. Some private enterprises have established their own internal training programmes and generally don't rely on public VTCs. There is a lack of a TVET specific market information system, leading to a weak alignment."}, {"bbox": [97, 829, 528, 854], "category": "Text", "text": "The main direct beneficiaries of the action are:"}, {"bbox": [135, 870, 1134, 924], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Liberian youth and young adults enrolled in relevant TVET programmes with EU support, including young females, disabled youth, out-of-school youth, rural youth and at-risk youth."}, {"bbox": [135, 924, 1134, 979], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Key ministerial staff, with a focus on** developing capacity of key staff in the line Ministries to ensure they are better equipped to implement the National TVET policy."}, {"bbox": [135, 979, 1134, 1060], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **TVET instructors, administrators and principals,** with a particular focus on female instructors; on increasing exposure to modern and advanced TVET capabilities; on improving TVET administrators' capacity to build partnerships with the private sector and industry and trace graduates."}, {"bbox": [135, 1060, 1134, 1111], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Key personnel from EMIS Division of the Department of Planning, Research and Development of the MoE"}, {"bbox": [135, 1111, 1134, 1219], "category": "List-item", "text": "* **Selected VTCs,** with a focus on rehabilitating infrastructure, modernising equipment, and providing adapted training material. Target institutions will be carefully selected, together with the Government of Liberia, based on a risk assessment and their potential to provide quality TVET for youth in urban and remote rural areas."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 24"}]