Casual apprenticeships stay Africa’s largest abilities improvement system, offering coaching alternatives to thousands and thousands of younger individuals and employees who would in any other case lack entry to formal coaching.
This was one of many highlights on the third annual regional convention of the Sub-Saharan Africa Expertise and Apprenticeship Stakeholders Community held in Abuja, Nigeria, final week.
The Ministry of Schooling, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Tradition, by means of the Directorate of Technical and Vocational Schooling and Coaching (TVET) participated within the convention.
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Held below the theme ‘Scaling Apprenticeship for Respectable Work within the Quest for High quality Expertise Growth within the Casual Economic system,’ the convention introduced collectively key stakeholders from throughout Africa to debate strengthening apprenticeship programs and abilities improvement.
It adopted the Abuja II assertion of motion, which requires elevated funding in apprenticeship programs to help employment creation, entrepreneurship and financial transformation throughout Africa.
Schooling ministry spokesperson Sophie Tendane says delegates on the convention highlighted that whereas casual apprenticeship stays Africa’s largest supply of abilities coaching, it continues to face challenges associated to funding, recognition and standardisation.
“The convention noticed that abilities improvement needs to be handled as a strategic financial funding quite than merely a social intervention as it will be important for productiveness, industrialisation and entrepreneurship,” she says.
In line with Tendane, delegates beneficial integrating casual apprenticeship into nationwide abilities improvement frameworks, rising public funding in apprenticeship programmes and increasing recognition of prior studying programs to formally recognise abilities acquired by means of office expertise and casual studying.
She says Namibia’s participation aligns nicely with ongoing nationwide efforts to strengthen abilities improvement by means of the work-integrated studying coverage, the TVET coverage and an enhanced high quality assurance framework.
“Progress in recognition of prior studying initiatives positions Namibia to formally recognise abilities acquired outdoors conventional studying environments and develop entry to {qualifications} in keeping with the Abuja II commitments,” she says.
The Sub-Saharan Africa Expertise and Apprenticeship Stakeholders Community is a 43-country continental platform targeted on enhancing abilities and apprenticeship programs, particularly inside casual economies. It builds on key milestones, together with the 2023 Cotonou workshop, the Abuja Launch Motion Plan and the 2025 Mombasa Convention, geared toward strengthening apprenticeship programs within the casual financial system and selling employability and first rate work.
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