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The Sierra Leone Skills Development Project (P163723) is financed by the World Bank in the amount of US$20 million and the project is implemented by the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE), Sierra Leone. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase access to demand-led skills training and build the foundations for a demand-led skills development system in Sierra Leone.
The Project, the Skills Development Fund (SDF), aims at providing demand-led skills training/upgrading in TVET programs in six productive sectors, including agriculture, construction, fisheries, mining, tourism and ICT. The SDF training was delivered through two windows. Window 1 supports the improvement of the quality and relevance of formal (window 1, tier 1) and non-formal (window 1, tier 2) Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The target is formal and non-formal training institutions introducing new short-term courses for out-of-school, unemployed and underemployed youth, with focus on girls.
Window 2 supports businesses that need to address the skills gaps to expand their production and markets and upgrade their production process to climb higher up in the value chain.
The Skills assessment is designed to evaluate the program’s effectiveness on alumni’s skills (cognitive, socioemotional, digital, and job-specific), employability, and income generation. The assessment also provides information on how existing vocational training institutions or programs are catering to the jobs and skills needs.
R-DATS’ roles and responsibilities
R-DATS Consulting was contracted by the World Bank to deliver a national large-scale household-based TVET alumni tracer survey. A total of 2,268 alumni (including alumni with disabilities) were covered during the tracer survey. In addition, an institutional survey was also conducted with 47 heads of TVET Institutes and supported 100 business owners by the intervention.
Specifically, R-DATS responsibilities include to:
R-DATS Achievements
On this assignment, we deployed our expertise and experience in developing, translating, and programming high quality questionnaires, bench tested, and conducted a pilot exercise that framed the final data collection tool. We utilized our proficiency in survey programming and statistical software such as SurveyCTO to ensure that all the data collected were of the highest quality. Data were collected using Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) and accurate GPS locations of places visited by enumerators were captured and integrated with the survey data.
In summary, deliverables completed on this assignment by R-DATS include:
Partner:
The World Bank
Sector:
Education, Skills Development
Themes:
Skills Acquisition, Vocational Training and Technical Education
Country:
Sierra Leone
Study type/method:
Quantitative research, national household survey, institutional survey, and tracer survey.
Implementation period:
2023
Sample Size:
2,168 Training Alumni for National Household Tracer Survey (without disabilities)
100 disabled training Alumni for National Household Tracer Survey
47 Heads of TVET institutions (grantees)
100 owners of registered businesses (grantees)
Implementation status:
Completed
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