Ministry Of Employment And Labor Relations Tender

Expression of Interest: Consultant for Piu mohsse manager 1. Investing in human capital to enable private sector growth and improve the country competitiveness is the government of uzbekistan’s top priority. The government plans to implement employment programs to ensure employment of higher and secondary specialized educational graduates and organize training for workforce development. The technical and vocational education and training (tvet) sector reform aims to develop market-relevant skills, through institutional changes. The education sector plan (2019–2023) stresses the importance of matching skills development with the demand of employers through effective partnership between tvet and industries. 2. The proposed skills development for a modern economy project (sdmep) will support improved availability of workers with market-relevant skills. The sdemp will directly benefit at least 10,000 tvet students, 48,000 jobseekers (including 500 people with disabilities [pwds]), 600 specialized teachers/trainers and 100 management and staff from the selected professional training centers (ptcs) and technical and vocational educational institutions (tveis), 1,200 public employment service (pes) staff, 210 pes management, and government officials, among others. It will also benefit the industries seeking skilled workers, other colleges seeking new training methods and materials, and people seeking recognition of prior learning. 3. The project is aligned with the following impact: employment level of the population, particularly for youth, increased. The project will have the following outcome: market-relevant skills learned by students and job seekers. The project’s planned outputs are as below. 4. Output 1: employment and workforce development services improved. This output will improve the access to and quality of training and job placement services for job seekers, with a special focus on youth and women. At least 48,000 unemployed job seekers will be reskilled at competency levels 2–3 in the priority trades, including agribusiness and food processing, construction, ict, textiles and garments, and machinery repair and maintenance (i. E. , agro-machines, automobiles, and home appliances), including 500 pwd in relevant fields. It will support (i) improving pes capacities for job matching and referral to reskilling services; (ii) updating training equipment for the moelr’s staff training center, and developing training programs and materials for various training methods, including e-learning; (iii) launching social mobilization activities to promote the access to skills development and pess, especially for youth, women in nontraditional areas, and mses; (iv) updating 14 selected ptcs by providing advanced equipment and upgrading training infrastructure with gender- and pwd-inclusive and energy-saving facilities, including alternative energy provision (solar panels); and (v) setting up two assessment centers meeting competency-based training ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB),