81308340 - TVET Capacity Development for Just Transition, Employment Promotion Projects and Green Qualification

Project Description CPD4E
South Africa has not been achieving the economic growth required over a number of years. Based on the recent Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS Q4 2023), the labour force participation rate remains at 60%. The official unemployment rate is 32.1%, equating to 7.8 million people.

A particularly concerning issue is that many young people are neither participating in the labour market nor expanding their skill sets through education and training. Unemployment rates for youth aged 15-24 and 25-34 reached 59.4% and 39% respectively. Approximately 33% of the 10.2 million young people aged 15-24 were not engaged in employment, education, or training (NEET), marking a 0.6% decrease in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022. A significant difference can be seen in the gender-specific unemployment rates which is at 34.4% for women - 4.3 percentage points higher than for men (30.1%). Black women are particularly affected: 38.6% of black women are unemployed in comparison to 35.7% of black men. Additionally, the negative effects of the energy crisis are becoming apparent. A shortfall in electricity supply of around 4,000 - 6,000 megawatts, has led to ongoing nationwide controlled shutdown of the energy supply (load shedding).

The country relies on coal as the main source of energy, as coal constitutes more than 60% of Eskom"s energy supply. The dominance of fossil fuel-based power within the South African electricity sector has resulted in Eskom becoming one of the most polluting utilities in the world. This occurs against a backdrop of a global climate crisis and increasing pressure to decarbonize economies in order to lower carbon emissions. Furthermore, South Africa is now faced with the difficult balancing act between expanding capacity to close the energy gap and shaping a just energy transition involving a highly indebted energy supplier. Investments from the private sector and suitable framework conditions, well-trained workers are needed to enable growth and the creation of jobs in relevant economic sectors. Due to the high level of youth unemployment, there is a strong need to also strengthen the transition from education and training to employment ("Transition from Learning to Earning") and to implement a reform both in terms of qualifications and job opportunities. In this process, qualification through education and training must be oriented on the needs of the labour market.?

The project "Career Path Development for Employment" (CPD4E) is a German Technical Cooperation project implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). The project is implemented in partnership with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in South Africa and other relevant stakeholders. CPD4E aims to improve the employment prospects of young people in South Africa in low-carbon footprint economic sectors to support a Just Transition by applying an integrated approach to employment promotion. This involves integrating the following crucial dimensions through collaborative interventions with various stakeholders:?

- Output 1: Improving framework conditions in the labour market through innovation and learning.?
- Output 2: Providing labour market demand-side support, specifically in area of MSME business development and support.?
- Output 3: Strengthening the supply-side of the labour market to improve the employability of young people in the country.?
- Output4: Enhancing the employability of young people through targeted matching interventions to support better transitions from learning to earning?

Tender Description
This tender and subsequent contract is divided into two work packages.

Work package 1 is concerned with the capacity development for the Just Transition of stakeholders in the TVET System. As part of the support to DHET to provide capacity development measures for integrating South Africa"s Just Transition framework into the country"s TVET and employment promotion agenda, CPD4E seeks to strengthen the capacities of key public, civil society and private sector skills development and employment promotion actors.
The main partner to the project in work package 1 is the Technical and Vocational Education and Training branch in the DHET with the 50 public TVET Colleges. However, given work around skills anticipation and employment creation it is foreseen that the Planning branch and the Skills branch of the DHET will be additional partners to work with. ?

Work package 2 of the programme is concerned with the development and implementation of new learning programmes for the public TVET sector in South Africa. The contractor will contribute to output indicator 3.1 and 3.2 through the new programmes developed within this programme. A full description of the contractor"s responsibilities against the results matrix is set out hereunder.
This work package aims to develop and support public TVET colleges to implement new and emerging qualifications. This will be the entire process starting from the development of job profiles through to implementation at college level. In total we wish to develop 2 short skills programmes for implementation at 4 TVET colleges (2 colleges per programme).

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Bekanntmachungs-ID: CXTRYY6YTYNZEBPN

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