Skills development for rural people: Review of discussions

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Skills development for rural peopleReview of
discussions
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Rationale for a rural focus in skills development

• Declining support for rural areas
• Poverty reduction efforts
• Reducing urban/rural inequalities
• Need to recognize the rural character of poverty
• Targeting
• how to reach rural people in an effective manner
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• How to set the focus (inequalities in rural
  areas, what about the rural rich?)
• Rural focus an old story, yes but the
  environment has changed

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Defining rural people

• Rural people
• place of residence,
• Occupation/livelihood
• These criteria are not easy to apply
• Not often a focus for countries
• Not often a focus for agencies
• pro-poor growth
• rural areas)

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Defining skills development

• Vocational skills core competencies
• Capacities (private and social levels)
• Beyond TVET (literacy, NFE, higher education,
  learning and access to information)
• Yet TVET remains an essential and unexplored
  dimension of skills development for rural
  development and agriculture

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Specific strategies

• Local focus
• System consistency
• Market focus
• Livelihoods approach
• Reorienting TVE institutions towards rural issues
• Partnership with rural people
• Skills development with other interventions

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Macro strategies

• More resources towards poor rural areas (policy
  focus rural areas/rural people)
• Skills development
• Training learning information
• AKIS, higher education
• Scaling up systemic change
• Emerging focus on growth strategies

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Donor support

• PRSP driven agenda
• Relevance/rural issues
• Dualism TVET for the poor
• Effectiveness/sector reform
• Forced agenda
• Sustainability
• need for long term support
• increasing aid dependency
• Donor coordination is it lacking?
• Lessons for ERP
• More advocacy is needed (country donors)
• Need to set targets