Web page of SNSF project “LELAM-TVET4INCOME” now online

The youth in low- and middle-income countries often represent about one third of the countries’ population. But this future generation often suffers from underemployment, low job quality and low income. All of this because of a poor youth labour market situation. 

Finding solutions is the aim of the recently started project “Linking Education and Labour Markets: Under what conditions can Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) improve the income of the youth? (LELAM-TVET4INCOME)”. This project aims to understand how policy makers and practitioners in low- and middle-income countries can improve the youth labour market situation by strengthening social institutions and their interdependence with formal, non-formal and informal TVET. This represents a crucial dimension of the TVET system, as these social institutions govern the involved actors, their roles, and their relationships with each other. Hence, this project aims to analyze the conditions under which TVET improves gainful employment and job quality and thereby improves the income situation of the youth.

The external page r4d programme is a joint funding initiative of the external page Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the external page Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project is endowed with nearly 3 Mio. CHF and consists of teams from Benin, Chile, Costa Rica, Nepal, and Switzerland. The project is coordinated at the Research Division Education Systems at KOF.