Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) 2012, para. 18
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- The importance of technical and vocational education and training is also recognized at the regional level; for example, it is considered a key issue in the African region. The Strategy to Revitalize Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Africa, presented at the Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union in May 2007, underlines the need to modernize and harmonize TVET in Africa in order "to transform it into a mainstream activity for African youth development, youth employment and human capacity-building in Africa". The African Union Summit on the theme "Accelerating youth empowerment for sustainable development" in 2011 also called for the accelerated use of technical and vocational skills development to empower youth and promote entrepreneurship. In West Africa, traditional apprenticeships are considered generally to offer the largest opportunity for acquiring employable skills in the informal sector.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Education, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/310, para. 18.
- Paragraph number
- 18
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