e.Gen starts its journey in the 18th country of project operation which is a Southeast Asian nation occupying half the island of Timor, official name Timor- Leste . e.Gen signed the contract for this education project, Timore on November 7, 2016, titled, “ADB TA-9006 TIM: Policy and Planning for Skills Development in Secondary Education – 1 (49178-001)”. e.Gen Consultants in association with
HRD Consulting Korea (Joint Venture) and Development Planners & Consultants Group, Bangladesh (Sub Consultant) has been selected for this project is due to commence very soon.
The selection was done on quality and cost based selection.
This TA project is expected to support the Government of Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Education (MOE) in strengthening its planning and management capacity for technical secondary education. There are few outputs expected from the project which are:
(i) an assessment of learning outcomes among a sample of general and technical secondary students;
(ii) a review of curriculum relevance and recommendations for improvement;
(iii) an analysis of the recurrent unit costs of secondary education;
(iv) an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of existing skills programs, separately for males and females;
(v) a report on training needs assessments of teachers in a sample of existing and proposed technical schools;
(vi) recommendations for priority skills programs for technical education expansion, including cost estimates for required upgrades per school;
(vii) phased implementation plans for transforming selected general schools into technical schools, along with specific investment strategies that include financial and human resource requirements;
(viii) pilot implementation plans for one or two priority technical schools; and
(ix) delivery of capacity development workshops for MOE and school officials. Specific experts to be recruited for the assignments are as follows.
For further information on this project, please write to info@egen.bezpoke.co.bd