The immediate objective of the UNDP VET Project is increased employability of youth graduating from Vocational Education and Training (VET) colleges with a specialization relevant for economic growth sectors in rural areas and regional cities of Armenia.
With these words UNDP VET Project entered the world of VET system a little more than 6 years ago. After much planning and extensive discussions with concerned national and international stakeholders the UNDP VET Project started broad-scope procurement aimed at the acquisition of state-of-art educational laboratory equipment (31 technical VET labs addressing more than 11 different professional occupations and 12 packages of modern IT equipment) for 21 VET colleges located across the country, thus substantively contributing to the upgraded of about 24% of the country’s VET state schools.

The USAID funded Enterprise Development & Market Competitiveness (EDMC) Project, in partnership with UNDP Armenia, organized a roundtable discussion on private sector contribution to the qualified workforce development in Armenia, with main focus on youth potential. The main objective of the roundtable was to discuss the statistical evidence and policy options that could bring long lasting positive effects on youth employment in Armenia.

Today, Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia and Arthur Grigoryan, RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs signed a Letter of Agreement (LoA) on organization and conduct of large-scale vocational retraining with further job placement for registered long-term unemployed women and youth, who recently graduated from VET institutions, with the special focus on remote communities.

UNDP VET Project posted an announced for RFP for “2010-2011 Vocational Education and Training (VET) Graduate Tracer Study”.
Details of the proposal submition requirements are presented in the Terms of Reference (TOR) http://operations.undp.am/Procurement/Default.aspx.

UNDP VET Project has initiated the recruitment of Monitoring & Evaluation Trainer/Expert to Deliver Classes for VET Managers. Details of the proposal application process can be found on http://operations.undp.am/Recruitment/JobView.aspx?id=829 website.

In the frames of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Acceleration Framework Application in Armenia, UNDP Armenia organizes the Second Workshop “Bottleneck Analysis in the Field of Rural Development”.