Kosovo2018-2020

Youth, Employment and Skills (YES) - Kosovo

Support to youth employment and skills work in Kosovo through competency standards, skills outlook planning, learning-material enhancement, and stronger public-private coordination.

Kosovo's youth-employment challenge required a programme that could connect competency standards, labour-market evidence, institutional capacity, and stronger collaboration with private-sector actors.

Youth, Employment and Skills (YES) - Kosovo

What we delivered

Competency standards and occupation-specific profiles for NQF levels 4-6
Evidence-based skills outlook planning and labour-market diagnostics
Support for learning materials, trainer qualifications, and sector-council coordination

What this work shows

Stronger links between skills development and youth employment priorities
Operationalised coordination between institutional and private-sector actors
Relevant Kosovo experience for labour-market-oriented TVET assignments

GIZ with MLSW, MEST, and PEM Consult

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Expertise linked to this reference

TVET Systems Reform

We support ministries, agencies, and project partners that need implementation-oriented help with governance, institutional roles, quality assurance, and practical reform sequencing.

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Work-Based Learning and School-Enterprise Cooperation

We help schools, companies, and programme partners align learning outcomes, mentoring roles, documentation, and monitoring so WBL models can be piloted and improved with confidence.

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Curricula, Assessment, and Certification

We contribute to occupational standards, curriculum development, examination logic, and certification pathways that institutions can use in real delivery settings.

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Capacity Building for Institutions, Teachers, and Mentors

We build the capacity of teachers, coordinators, managers, in-company mentors, and workplace instructors so new tools, models, and responsibilities can be used with confidence.

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Private-Sector Participation and Partnerships

Employer participation matters for occupational relevance, mentoring, internships, and long-term workforce partnerships. We help build those links through practical cooperation models and in-company instructor development.

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