Skills for Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry (STAF) <p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to </span><strong>to support the priority policy objectives of the ESSDP 2021-2025, including the TVET Development Plan 2021-2025, and the European Joint Programming Strategy 2021-2025 as to improve qualifications and skills of Laos¿ youth responding to labour market needs of a green and digitalised economy</strong>,</p><p>The main activities under the TVET complementary support (contributing to SO2) will focus on the following:</p><p>&nbsp;<em>Access and Relevance</em></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Comprehensive <strong>Labour market surveys</strong> (current and projected), Gender sectoral analysis in comparative advantage sectors (<strong>Agriculture/Forestry, Agroindustry, Textiles, construction and energy</strong>), <strong>Tourism</strong> and <strong>ICT-related Services.</strong></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Technical assistance to TVET Department in the design and performance of <strong>Tracer studies</strong> in the above sectors </p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Development of <strong>Occupational Qualifications Framework </strong>(OQF) standards for the priority trades of these sectors and the 6 qualification levels of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), in cooperation with these sectors¿ private business, through the Trade working groups (TWG).</p><p>&nbsp;<em>Quality</em></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Training needs assessment and <strong>capacity building/upgrading of teaching staff</strong> in skills and competency assessment in their respective disciplines,</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Capacity building and upgrading of principals</strong> in the design and monitoring of ¿training centers development plans¿ in line with TVET development plan 2021-2025 and ESSDP 2021-2025, </p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Training needs assessment and <strong>capacity building/upgrading of technical and administrative staff</strong> in DESBs in particular, on TVET ACSEP design and monitoring, </p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Upgrade of the <strong>Vocational Education Development Institute</strong> (VEDI) into a Research &amp; Development Centre of Excellence,</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Develop joint projects with the private business on Compulsory Basic Training/Dual Cooperative Training training modalities, <strong>¿entrepreneurship training¿,</strong>  and on the creation and development of <strong>Incubators </strong>for start-ups in priority sectors (Agroindustry and IT).</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Support to a limited number of CSO initiatives in the TVET sector, selected in function of their relevance with the public TVET policy, the economic sectors of activity they target and their consistency with the CBT/National Vocational Qualification Framework training approach.</p><p>&nbsp;<em>Governance </em></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Support to the <strong>National TVET Council-Permanent Office</strong> in the accomplishment of its mandate such as specified in the revised TVET Law (2019) in order to make it the apex body of Public Private Partnership (PPP) and inter-ministerial coordination (MoES and MoLSW) for TVET development.</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Support to the <strong>TVET Development Fund</strong> with the aim to increase opportunities of private business funding and enhance its efficiency and effectiveness in the management of funds.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p>The detailed list of activities, including the list of courses and colleges to be supported, will be further developed during the joint formulation with Luxembourg and Switzerland in Q1&amp;Q2 of 2022.</p>