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Public education development initiatives have often gravitated toward popular interventions such as teacher training programmes, improving infrastructure, or introducing Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). However, these interventions frequently fall short of achieving their desired effects because they fail to resolve one of the fundamental challenges in education provision: the need to build and sustain well-functioning, straightforward public procurement processes.

The Green Paper provides a contextual background the #AnzishaScenario campaign, exploring 3 scenarios in which entrepreneurship is always seen as important to job creation – but one where VERY YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS are prioritized.

This report highlights eleven important lessons about youth entrepreneurship from the first decade of Anzisha's work in Africa. It demonstrates Anzisha's understanding of the future of work in Africa and the underpinning dynamics of youth entrepreneurs.
 

This assessment is aimed at identifying and assessing the current conditions and common practices under which Romanian training institutions operate and providing policy makers and training providers with key actions and recommendations to strengthen the education and training system in the country, with the intention of leading to increased economic productivity and competitiveness.

This case study outlines the OER policy development process for the Seychelles’ Information Communications Technology (ICT) in Education and Training Policy (2014-2019) and the subsequent ICT in Education and Training Policy (2022-2027). Both projects were initiated and supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL).

Although the concept of OER initially gained publicity in the Global North, OER are gaining traction in Africa, with an increasing number of OER initiatives focusing on areas such as OER advocacy, practice, and research. Today, the concept has been mainstreamed around the world, as exemplified through the unanimous adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER in 2019.

This background paper was prepared for for: The World Bank, UNESCO and ILO (2023). Building Better Formal TVET Systems: Principles and Practice in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Washington D.C., Paris, Geneva: The World Bank, UNESCO, and ILO.

Drawing on a comprehensive literature review of best practice in OER measurement, as well as experience of working with UNESCO to support implementation of the Recommendation, this chapter presents an initial framework for the measurement of the effectiveness of the OER Recommendation and proposes indicators that regions, countries, and/or institutions could adopt or adapt to rigorously measure both how OER is used and its effectiveness for improving learning.