Project Name：Eswatini Technical and Vocational Skills Certification Enhancement Project

Project status：Projects in Operation

Cooperating Country：Africa, Kingdom of Eswatini

Project Description：

To increase certified skilled personnel in key occupation categories such as electrical/mechanical engineering, auto repair, machinery, as well as tourism and hospitality in a bid to accommodate the Kingdom of Eswatini’s national development needs, the project will focus on the skill certification authority of Eswatini, the Directorate of Industrial and Vocational Training, to enable it to provide high-quality and industry-oriented technical certification examinations and apprentice training programs. In order to strengthen the level of certification to meet the market demand; update certification contents and standards to produce adequate human resources for the industry; improve the management efficiency of Eswatini’s Directorate of Industrial and Vocational Training (DIVT); and ensure that the evaluation content and skills testing venue comply with the Southern African Development Community Qualifications Framework (SADCQF) and the expectations of key industry occupations, the project implementation contents will include: 1. Conducting skills certification for occupations with high demand;
2. Implementing upskilling and lifelong training education after the skills certification system is updated; 3. Providing certification standards that cater to the needs of key occupations; 4. Improving certification facilities and venues used for key occupation certification based on the updated certification standards; 5. Empowering key occupation certification planning committee and evaluation committee panel members; 6. Introducing information systems for the sake of improving license management system efficiency.

Region：Africa

Implementation Start Date：2021-07-01

Implementation End Date：2025-06-30

Project Objectives：Update the certification standards for occupations such as electrical/mechanical engineering, auto repair, machinery, hospitality, and tourism to comply with the SADCQF, as well as increase the number of certification candidates by 25 percent compared to the initial project.

Executing Agency：

Taiwan Technical Mission in the Kingdom of Eswatini / Kingdom of Eswatini Ministry of Labour & Social Security / Kingdom of Eswatini Ministry of Education & Training

Current Progress：

By the end of December 2023, the following activities have been implemented:

1.Conducted High Demand trade test for 592 people.  

2.Conducted 27 upskilling classes, there have been 373 people graduated.

3. Unit Standards & Qualifications

(1)2022: Conducted 11 qualification standards workshops and completed a total of 18 trade standards such electrical wiring; conducted 1 apprenticeship training outline workshop for  electrical wiring categories and completed 1 apprenticeship training outline document for this category.

(2)2023: Held 9 unit standards workshops for Welding and Motor Vehicle Mechanic fields and completed qualifications standards

4.Renewing an electrical wiring trade testing workshop at DIVT in January, one main kitechen and another one individual practical kitchen at ECOT.

5.Capacity Building for leturers:

(1)2022: Sent 2 lecturers for short term training in Taiwan, 1 for Food Preparation and the other one for Refridgeration and Air- Conditioning.

(2)2023: Four Taiwan Experts conducted Electrical Wiring, Food Preparation, Welding and Automotive repairing short-term training in Eswatini. Sent 2 lecturers for short term training in Taiwan, 1 for  Electrical Wiring and the other one for Welding

6. Had Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) practical experience with High School female students from 15 schools and a total of 239 beneficiaries attended.    

Project Contact：Wang,Yen-Chih

Phone：+886-2-2888-6054

E-mail：y.j.wang@icdf.org.tw

Mission：Taiwan Technical Mission in the Kingdom of Eswatini (Former Swaziland)