the aim of tvet is to develop a skilled workforce and if this objective is achieved this will in turn enhance the public perception of tvet so that it is no longer seen as a secondrate source of education skills recognition is a mechanism for facilitating the incorporation of informal and nonformal modalities because it gives credit for learning gained through any number of pathways skills recognition can also provide a pathway into formal programmes and can support the mobility of the workforce across the region if mutual recognition systems are in place in the various countries