📋 Tender Overview
Project Status: Proposed
Source of Funding / Amount: Loan: improving workforce readiness in punjab
Ordinary capital resources: US$ 100.00 million
The proposed improving workforce development in punjab (iwrp) project is estimated to cost $110 million, of which the adb will finance $100 million from ordinary capital resources (regular loan). The government of punjab will contribute in-kind assistance of $10 million. The iwrp project will strengthen the technical and vocational education and training (tvet) sectors ability to support economic growth and job creation in priority economic sectors, including export-oriented sectors. The iwrp project will expand use of competency-based training and assessment (cbta), reform the tvet institutional framework, and develop tvet centers of excellence (coes) and sector skills councils. It will also expand work-based training, strengthen of industry-tvet linkages, address the lack of female participation in tvet, expand entrepreneurship programs for tvet graduates, and introduce the private management of public tvet institutes.
The government of pakistan (the government) has set itself an ambitious target of creating 10 million jobs over five years, with a special focus on skill-building through technical and vocational education and training (tvet) in its first term. Achieving this target will require much better performance from the tvet sector. The scale of improvement required can be seen from the global competitiveness report 2018, which showed that pakistan ranked 125th overall for skills with individual rankings of 90th for the quality of vocational training, 51st for the skillset of graduates, and 63rd for ease of finding skilled employees. Since the passage of the 18th constitutional amendment in 2010, provincial governments in pakistan are responsible for delivering, funding and regulating tvet. In punjab, the industries, commerce and investment department (icid) has overall responsibility for the tvet sector, although many departments and agencies are involved in the sector. There are two principal public tvet providers in punjab. The largest is the technical education and vocational training authority (tevta), with around 400 institutes, while the punjab vocational training council (pvtc), which serves the poor and needy, has some 270 institutes. Tevta and pvtc rely mostly on provincial government funding. Tevta is financed through icid, while pvtc is funded through the zakat and ushr department and the planning and development department. Other tvet institutes include public providers operated by other governments departments and agencies, and a large private sector. Tevta and pvtc also operate tvet teacher training centers. The structure of the tvet sector in punjab is set out in appendix 4. The size of the tvet sector in punjab dwarfs that in other provinces. In 2017, there were some 1,600 tvet institutes and 238,000 tvet enrolments in punjab, representing 46. 0% of all tvet institutes
