Skills development and employment promotion are central to Rwanda’s transformative Vision 2050, aiming to secure high standards of living
for all Rwandans. To achieve this goal, Rwanda must build a dynamic and capable workforce, meeting the rising demand for high-skilled jobs. Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) has a key role to play on the country’s aforementioned agenda as it aims at equipping people with know-how, hands on skills and/ or competences required in particular occupations or more broadly in the labour market for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
High-quality technical and Vocational Education and Training systems that have a strong work-based learning element facilitate young people’s transition to work and contribute to reducing unemployment and supporting economic development. TVET is also a powerful means of empowering people to develop their full capabilities, enabling them to seize social and employment opportunities, and increasing the productivity of both workers and enterprises. TVET institutions are major suppliers of workforce who will be in the forefront in dealing directly with sustainable issues as the
better education and training is also necessary for decent work and socially sustainable, fair growth.
TVET and skills policies include formal, non-formal and informal vocational learning, workplace and work-based learning, and other learning opportunities in the formal and informal economies. These policies support a life-long learning approach to economic growth, and good employment and social objectives.
