Vocational education and training - VET

To address the shortage of health information personnel within Botswana, an innovative human resources approach was taken. University graduates without training or experience in health information or health sciences were hired and provided with on-the-job training and mentoring to create a new cadre of health worker: the district Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E;) Officer. This article describes the early outcomes, achievements, and challenges from this initiative. 

This paper will focus on four discreet but integrated aspects of the broader education and training system, within the broader context of sustainable development in Africa. It examines generic understandings of validation, recognition and accrediting non-formal and informal learning, the facilitating role that [National Qualification Frameworks] NQFs can and are playing in recognition, the analysis and conclusions from case studies from six African countries, and it concludes with suggestions about how validation and recognition policies and practices of non-formal and informal learning can be key building blocks towards lifelong learning and sustainable skills development in Africa. http://www.adeanet.org/triennale/Triennalestudies/subtheme1/1_3_04_Shirley_STEENEKAMP_en.pdf