DECENT - Inclusive Labor Market Participation enhanced through vocational teachers’ continuous professional development in digitalisation, gender, inclusion, entrepreneurship, and private sector collaboration.

Mozambique faces major problems with youth unemployment and a poor vocational training-skills needed in the working life mismatch. In this project, we aim to strengthen vocational education and training (VET) -private sector collaboration and improve the quality and responsiveness of VET. In DECENT, we aim to address the challenges of low level of VET-Industry collaboration, gender equality, inclusion in the labor market, and digital transformation by skilling VET teachers, as they are the main vehicle for the improvement of quality. To overcome the slow pace of official VET teacher education, we introduce possibilities for VET Teachers' Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the mode of short courses for most topical issues. Together with five partners we co-create five short courses on 1) gender equality in VET and in labor market, 2) inclusion in VET and the labor market, 3) digital pedagogy to overcome geographical disparities, 4) entrepreneurship for decent income for youth, and 5) VET-private sector collaboration to increase the responsiveness of VET to labour market requirements. These courses are piloted, and the final contents are modified according to the feedback received. The CDP courses are a supplementary resource for undertrained VET teachers. By the end of the project, each Mozambican partner will have an organizational handbook on how they can replicate similar CPDs in the future for wider impact. The impact will be the better employability of the VET graduates and smooth transition of skilled youth from VET to the inclusive labor market of Mozambique. The project fosters the employability of the youth and economic growth in the country. Digitalization develops sustainable pedagogical approaches. By addressing gender equality and social inclusion we promote a more just society in Mozambique.