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Indo-German Programme for Vocational Education and Training (IGVET)

Capacitate India’s youth to turn the country into a global skills hub by improving the workplace-based cooperative vocational Education and Training (VET) system

More than 250 million young people are expected to join the Indian labour market in the next 15 years. At the same time, India’s ambition to become a globally leading manufacturing hub requires sufficient, qualified workers. The current vocational education and training (VET) system in India does not deliver a workforce of adequate quality and quantity, causing a shortage of skilled workers that threatens to undermine efforts of the industry to innovate and to enhance productivity.

In order to address the existing challenge, IGVET promotes the active involvement of private enterprises for establishing a demand-driven, workplace-based VET in India. The idea is to combine theoretical knowledge from a school-based environment with practical knowledge from learning at the workplace. The project takes inspiration from the German dual vocational training system and incorporates elements of the German system into the Indian VET context.

The Result: The private sector actors will take the lead in the design and implementation of cooperative VET programmes. The vocational skills of cooperative VET graduates, both women and men, will enhance their employability and match the needs of the industry. The programme will contribute to India’s target of preparing 400 million people for the labour market by 2022.

The project focuses on public and private sector engagement and integrates gender equality in its approach. Following the principle of learning-by-doing, IGVET supports the implementation of high-quality, cooperative VET programmes in three industrial clusters: the auto-motive components cluster in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, the electronics and manufacturing cluster in Bangalore, Karnataka, and the energy efficient construction cluster in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. Various pilot measures, for e.g. analysis of training needs, design of cooperative VET courses, training of trainers, career guidance programmes, awareness on apprenticeships and related schemes are executed in the clusters. Three new clusters in Mumbai (Retail and E-Commerce, Pune (Green Energy) and Hyderabad (Life Sciences) are being established.

Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Featured Work

Skilling India in a Digital Age

With the rapid emergence of Industry 4.0, digitalisation is changing the working environment itself as well as the methods available for apprenticeship training. To prepare India for the future of work, we need to enable reskilling and upskilling initiatives for the trainers and trainees and consider the capacities and demands of all actors involved.

Apprenticeship Connect: Skill Connect Roadshow

With the aim to encourage private and public sector engagement towards the implementation of Apprenticeship Programmes, the Indo-German Program for Vocational Education and Training, the Confederation of Indian Industry and the National Skill Development Corporation jointly hosted a series of workshops, across India.

Developing an Implementation Strategy for the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) System in the State of Karnataka, India

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is an important pillar of India’s overall skill development program me. Still most of the rural and semi-urban youth acquire workplace skills through informal education and training.

Development of a Concept for the Export of Workers from the State of Karnataka, India

The demand for skilled workers, in countries facing a shortage of manpower, has seen a steady increase. Immigration is the only way available to many countries with manpower shortfalls to meet the essential requirements of their administrations and businesses.

Improvement of the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) in the State of Karnataka, India

Labour information has a direct impact on the time required to reduce unemployment and the speed to fill job vacancies. An efficient LMIS helps in the creation of high-quality employment, which is one of the main challenges in India today.

Establishing the Marathwada Skills Hub

The Indo-German Programme for Vocational Education and Training (IGVET) is a joint initiative of the Indian Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fÃ¼r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, it aims at improving the skills of India’s labour force, a priority for the Government of India.

Conducting a Skill Gap Analysis

Promoting Apprenticeship Through Career Guidance

Implementing the Dual System of Training

Conducting a Training for In-Company Trainers

Creating a Curriculum for a New Apprenticeship Course

Promoting Cooperative Skill Development

By 2030, one in every five youth in the world will be Indian. India is one of the youngest nations worldwide and has the largest working-age population in the world. These facts combined with the country’s immense economic development over the past 10 years have nurtured India’s ambition to become a globally leading manufacturing hub.