Innovation Development and Effectiveness in the Acquisition of Skills (IDEAS) Project

The development objective of Innovation Development and Effectiveness in the Acquisition of Skills Project for Nigeria is to enhance the capacity of the Nigerian skills development system to produce relevant skills for the formal and informal sectors. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Incentivizing Partnerships with Industry for Enhanced Quality and Labor-Market Orientation of Public Technical Colleges, aims to provide grant funding for the rehabilitation and upgrading of Federal and State Technical College (TCs) with the aim of transforming their operational models into public private partnerships, in which industry partners assume a prominent role in institutional governance, management and planning, training and service delivery. 2) The second component, Improving Skills Formation in the Informal Sector, aims to deliver a comprehensive capacity development intervention package for the improvement and modernization of informal apprenticeships to selected informal sector clusters. 3) The third component, Increasing the Availability of Competent and Motivated Technical Teachers and Instructors, aims to improve the availability of appropriately skilled and competent Technical Teachers and Instructors (TTI) in the skills development space throughout the country, including teaching staff of private skills development institutions, and starting with technical teaching staff in TCs. 4) The fourth component, Strengthening the Regulatory Environment and Public Management Capacities for Market-Oriented Skills Development, support further rolling-out of the Nigerian Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) reform, which involves capacitating Sector Skills Council (SSCs), curriculum development and revision based on National Occupational Standard (NOS), training and certification of assessors and trainers.