Services Provided

By coordinating the work with various technical specialists working on project preparation, the consultants provided inputs to all documents required for loan processing.

Key services included: (i) advising on all aspects of project design aimed at improving access to, and the quality of, TVET in Punjab, including revisions to curricula and programs, work-based training programs, competency-based training and assessment, skills certification, capacity-building measures, and mechanisms to increase linkages between the TVET system and the private sector, investment requirements, and the introduction of innovative models for financing and delivering TVET; (ii) providing advice on the design of TVET PPP programs; (iii) providing advice on project startup; (iv) liaising with the executing agency and implementing agencies, other government agencies and other sector stakeholders; (v) ensuring that gender issues are addressed in project design and in project implementation arrangements; (vi) work with other specialists to identify priority economic sectors to be targeted by the project; (vii) identify the options for supporting informal apprenticeships; (viii) identifying specific arrangements like the national skills development fund, cost sharing approaches together with PPP; and (ix) assisting in the preparation of the RRP and all linked documents, as well as all safeguards assessments.