Technical Assistance

Technical Assistance Team attached to the PMU and ETPs The Technical Assistants Team will support the PMU in the overall management, concept development, strategic aspects and design of the EC-Egyptian contribution to the TVET reform programme. The core TA team has 5 international experts and one national expert. The team is lead by the Team leader who is in charge of the management and conceptual frame of the Egyptian-EC cooperation. The team has the following professional ori-entations: procurement and finances, development of tender’s policy development, train the trainers (ToT) programs, TVET system development and policy, MIS and M&E (manage-ment information and monitoring and evaluation), sectorial advisory services in the devel-opment of training in the garment sectors and ETP development issues. After the establishment of the first ETP in the garment sector the programme will implement further 11 ETP’s. Through tenders two more TA-Contracts (2 and 3) will be concluded and the present TA team will be increased successively by international short term experts at-tached to the 4 ETP’s of contract 2 7 ETP’s of contract 3. Each TA contract will have a local management unit to coordinate the respective contribution of the contracts and assist the PMU in managing the impact. The sectorial short term experts will be attached to the ETP’s management, which will have the same organisational structure as the first pilot ETP in RMG. Those international and national short term experts will tackle question like institutional and organisational development (OD) of ETPs, ToT and all questions of capacity building and infrastructure development of TVET suppliers and development of TVET institutions and in – company training facilities, development of master plans for training and TOT, auditing of training centres, sector studies and related sectorial aspects of ETP in the sectors and companies. They will also handle aspects of awareness creation among stakeholders and target groups and visibility issues. There will be also specialized international and national short term expertise for specific TVET related subjects like identification of sectors, mapping of industries, labour market issues, public relation and visibility, development of knowledge bases, HRD aspects and coaching of key staff in companies and TVET suppliers, studies on company and economic sectors related questions and issues on system development and problem solving. The PMU along with the TA team will be fully managed and led by the TA team leader over the 6 years life span of the programme and he will be assisted for the overall implementation and management of the programme by the team. The TA core team of Contract 1, attached to the PMU, will be in charge to accompany all the TA contracts (2 and 3) and also those components implemented by further contracts identified and tendered during the live span of the six years project.