Partners implementing the EEVT project

Partners implementing the EEVT project

Project Profile

The EEVT Project is implemented by the Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA) and international development charity VSO, in partnership with BG Tanzania. The EEVT project (Enhancing Employability through Vocational Training) aims at improving the employability of young people in the regions of Mtwara and Lindi, with a focus on the growing demand for skilled labour in the gas industry and related services. Over 2 years, VETA teachers and their students will be trained by tutors from VSO. On the long run, VETA will be capable of producing a steady stream of qualified craftsmen and teachers.

More than 620 students from VETA Mtwara and more than 224 students from VETA Lindi are benefiting from the project. The number of students benefiting from the project will continue to increase as more students continue to join for both short and long courses while others graduating as from 2014. 4 Teachers from VETA Lindi and 7 VETA Mtwara are also part of beneficiaries in this project through capacity building (training by City and Guilds) and also one-on one coaching from VSO technical advisors.

The EEVT project is governed by the signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) which among other things stipulates the role of each partner to the project. GIZ, VETA, VSO Tanzania and Tanzania LNG have signed the MOU which provides the framework of all operations and project activities
in a model of partnership approach. On 10th October 2013, the three partners have also signed another MOU for EEVT VETA Lindi extension in the presence of Hon. First Lady Mama Salma Kikwete who was the Guest of Honour during inauguration of the project in Lindi. Prior the Lindi inauguration, the same project was also inaugurated in November 2012 by Hon. Dr. Mohamed Gharib
Bilal at VETA Mtwara. The project steering committee, with membership representation from GIZ, VETA, Tanzania LNG and VSO Tanzania, is the top overseer and decisive body of the project.

Since 2014, the project has scaled up in terms of support and recognition where more extractive companies have joined their forces to support the project. Currently, the project is supported by GIZ and Tanzania LNG Plant Project - a joint venture combined of 5 major O&G companies (BG Group, Ophir, Pavilion Energy, ExxonMobil and Statoil). The first phase of the project ended in December 2015 (2012-2015) and the second was extended for the next 2 years from January 2016 to December 2017.

Among the notable and key components covered in phase includes industry Links program, Capacity of Centers, Quality of Training, International Accreditation and Career Matching. These five components form the basis of EEVT phase two project where a block system approach will be introduced and placing industry links at the core of the project. In addition, phase two has added three new trades based on the experience of phase one; scaffolding, plant operator and industrial painting of which the training is expected to be provided in short course basis.


Jumatatu, 4 Novemba 2013

WORKSHOP ON VOCATIONAL GAPS SKILLS IN TANZANIAN GAS & OIL SECTOR - DAR


SUMMARY AND RATIONALE OF THE WORKSHOP EVENT
With the discoveries of gas in the offshore of Tanzania and more specifically in Southern part of Tanzania (Mtwara and Lindi), a number of speculations and uncertainties emerged as the result of what exactly is all about when it comes into gas opportunities. Very limited job opportunities might be available in the direct gas operations. But related and trickledown opportunities are said to account for more than 75 per cent of gas activities. Gas sector as new in Tanzania is still struggling with a number of key information that communities would need to know. For instance, production of gas is said by the experts to have taken around 20 -35 years since explorations and discoveries and until construction of LNG plant (liquidified natural gas) and gas product.

 However, in the course of this process (from discovery until product of gas) a number of job opportunities may be created which would require a number of skilled labors in the gas and oil job markets. Skilled labor in the oil and gas sector is one of the critical areas that the EEVT project is attempting to address by preparing the youth and other people to be equipped with craftsmanship skills relevant to gas and oil related sector.

In this 4th of November 2013, VETA, VSO, ILO and BG Tanzania commissioned the STOW College to conduct an in-depth vocational skills gaps study in Tanzanian oil and gas sector. The workshop was held at ILO head office in Dar-es-salaam with participation of a number of partners in employers, gas companies, media people, financial organizations and amongst others. The discussion was moderated by a prominent Journalist and activist – Generali Ulimwengu. The study was meant to identify the skills gaps in Tanzanian gas and oil sector with the proposed mitigation on the same. VETA Tanzania has been identified as the potential partner in creating craftsmanship skills in the Tanzanian gas and oil sector under EEVT project. Therefore, the study also focused on how VETA can provide relevant skills compatible to the demands on employers in the Tanzanian gas and oil sector.

FINDINGS
The findings were based on the following three major areas
1.      Availability of VET facilities and resources
2.      Capacity of VET systems and
3.      Quality of VET deliveries

CONLCUSION AND WAY
  • Quality as the priority at the international level
  • Industry participation in the EEVT project and the sector at large
  • To scale up the project
  • Coordination and dialogue with other partners
  • Another meeting will be held in the near future with more focus on the way forward about coordination and how such challenges can be addressed collaboratively.
AN OVERALL FINDING
The research survey has shown that VET systems face a number of challenges from curriculums relevant on gas sector, teacher qualifications, entry qualifications, inadequacy of facilities/infrastructures, low participation of gas employers in VETA to practical/apprenticeship programs. However, it was quite obvious that of all the challenges identified it was the apprenticeship training program which seemed a pivotal to discussion.

Most of the VETA students and more specifically from the EEVT project do not have competency in practical operations in gas and oil sector. The participants went further by identifying that the practical competency was not only the VETA challenge but even more on other education institutions. The study has also proposed the VET system to consider more on competency based assessment than academic based assessment in order to fit in the skills of the gas and oil job markets.
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