1. Sustainable Employer Engagement in TVET: The Role of the Government
Dual VET as Reference & Lessons Learnt from Development Cooperation
Input by Sibylle Schmutz,
Donor Committee for dual Vocational Education and Training (DC dVET)

2. DC dVET: Dual VET as an Opportunity! Members & Organisation*
Secretariat
Head & Collaborator
Country Representative Austria
Country Representative Germany
Country Representative Liechtenstein & Switzerland
* The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports BMZ in the role of their operative implementing partner.

3. Collective Organised Systems
Types of VET Systems
high
Liberal Systems
State Centred Systems
Collective Organised Systems
Segmental Systems
Participation of the state
low
low
Participation of private sector
high
*Model adapted from Busenmayer/Trampusch 2012

4. Private Sector Involvement
Introducing company based training phases
Involvement in examinations and certification
Qualification of school teachers and training personal in companies
Provision of teaching equipment and training material
Involvement at the steering level
Involvement in the development of standards and curriculum
Shared financing of VET systems
State centred systems
Introducting of school based theory
Formalisation of certificates
Segmental systems

5. Company based training phases
Improving labour market relevance of skills
Establishing dialogue at eye-level
Finding interested and suitable companies
Balancing interests
Quality assurance
Confidence building measures
Overcoming fears and resistance

6. Curriculum Development & Adaptation Keep relevance and up-to-dateness
Individual companies
Private sector organisations (chambers, associations etc.)
Who
Communication of qualification needs
Comment draft curricula
Part of all steps
How
Consultative role
Propose initiatives and changes
Vote right
Veto right
Scope

7. Governance & Steering Level System to manage diversity
Clarification of roles & responsibilities & mode of implementation
Formulation of laws, strategies & policies
Balancing common standards and autonomous implementation
Ensuring support bodies such as VET agencies or sector councils

8. Thank you for your attention
Dual Vocational Education and Training in Development Cooperation
Using Common Strenghts!
Thank you for your attention
For further questions or inquiries don’t hesitate to contact the
DC dVET secretariat: