Cabo Verde Education and Skills Development Enhancement Project

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

The development objective of the Education and Skills Development Enhancement Project for Cabo Verde is to strengthen foundational skills in education and improve the relevance of training programs to the recipient’s strategic development plan. It has three components. . The third component, the Scholarship Program (US$1 million)  began in 2021 to target the scholarships and continue the focus on ensuring training programs are aligned with the needs of the labor market and linked to opportunities for employment, the program focused on financing scholarships in key areas: (i) tourism and ICT with a focus on courses aligned with the six new national qualification frameworks developed with the support of the project ; and (ii) information from various employers and sectors on expected job opportunities over the next 2 years from a 2021 study produced by the new National Labor Market Observatory. The program ultimately benefitted 1,221 people, of which the large majority were women (70%).


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Cabo Verde

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Cabo Verde

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2018 - 2023

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education, Project Management Unit (UGPE), Fund to Promote Employment and Training (FPEF), Directorate of Employment, Vocational Training, and Professional Internships

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary

Other

  • Remote Learning
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Other community members - female, Other community members - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Girls (both in school and out of school)

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Learning while working

  • Work-study

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased employment/job-related skills