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UNEVOC

International Project on Technical and Vocational Education
Projet international pour l’enseignement technique et professionnel

Financing Technical and Vocational Education:

Modalities and Experiences

This document was prepared by UNESCO
in co-operation with the
Industrial Occupations Promotion Centre
of the German Foundation for International Development

The International Project on Technical and Vocational Education (UNEVOC) is a project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Its purpose is to contribute to the development and improvement of technical and vocational education in Member States.

UNEVOC works in three programme areas:

· Programme Area A deals with the international exchange of experience and the promotion of studies on policy issues. It is devoted to system development in technical and vocational education.

· Programme Area B is devoted to strengthening national research and development capabilities, that is to the development of infrastructures.

· Programme Area C concerns access to data bases and documentation, and strengthening of the UNEVOC network, in other words, with information and communication.

Under Programme Area C, one of the UNEVOC activities is to identify studies and documents, to publish them and to disseminate them to educational administrators, teacher educators, curriculum developers and other interested parties. It is in this context that the present study has been make the experiences and findings widely available to all those concerned.

The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) was established in Paris by UNESCO in 1963 to serve as a world centre for advanced training and research in educational planning. Its purpose is to help all member states of UNESCO in their social and economic development efforts, by enlarging the fund of knowledge about educational planning and the supply of competent experts in this field.

Legally, and administratively a part of UNESCO, the Institute enjoys intellectual autonomy, and its policies and programme are controlled by its own Governing Board, under special statutes voted by the General Conference of UNESCO.

More information about IIEP activities can be obtained from:
IIEP · 7-9 rue Eugène-Delacroix · 75116 Paris · France.

The German Foundation for International Development (DSE) is an institution which provides a forum for dialogue on development policy and the initial and advanced training of specialists and executive personnel from developing and transitional countries. The institutional donor is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ). Since 1960, the DSE has given advanced professional training to more than 100 000 decision makers, specialists and executive personnel from more than 140 countries.

The Industrial Occupations Promotion Centre (ZGB) of the DSE offers advanced training in the field of vocational training. The 26 programmes aim to

· give more people in the developing countries access to vocational training opportunities,

· improve the efficiency of vocational training in the developing countries,

· support the introduction and further development of in-plant forms of vocational training in the sectors of industry, crafts and services,

· promote co-operation between school and in-plant vocational training agencies (dual approach),

· make it easier for target groups on the brink of poverty in the informal sector to set up their own business by undergoing crafts-oriented basic vocational training,

· support the processes of reform in the countries of Eastern Europe by promoting vocational training.

More information can be obtained from:

German Foundation for International Development · Industrial Occupations Promotion Centre ·
Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 15 · D-68169 Mannheim · Germany · [+49] (621) 3902-132

This document was prepared by UNESCO’s UNEVOC Implementation Unit in Berlin
Mailing address: UNEVOC Berlin · Fehrbelliner Platz 3 · D-10707 Berlin · Germany
[+49] (30) 86 49 15 41 · Electronic Mail: uhber@unesco.org
WorldWideWeb: http://www.b.shuttle.de/unevoc

©UNESCO 1996

Document Nr ED/IUG/007