Mapping and Analysis of National Qualifications Frameworks across the IGAD Member States
Ongoing regional engagement on qualifications, mutual recognition and labour mobility — consultations, workshops and capacity-development recommendations across the IGAD region
Since June 2024, indeson — through its director Dr. Rainer Gerke as NQF, Mutual Recognition and Labour Market Expert — supports the IGAD Secretariat in mapping and analysing the National Qualifications Frameworks of the IGAD member states. The engagement advances regional integration, labour mobility and skills recognition: it coordinates consultations with ministries, TVET institutions, employers and development partners across the region, including Uganda, facilitates stakeholder workshops, and develops recommendations for institutional capacity development and qualifications cooperation. The work carries forward the NQF–IGADQF alignment agenda that indeson advanced under the IGAD–GIZ SIMPI programme.
Labour mobility across the IGAD region depends on qualifications that can be read and trusted across borders. The member states' National Qualifications Frameworks stand at different stages of development, so mutual recognition requires a current, analytical picture of each framework — and sustained consultation between the ministries, TVET institutions and employers who operate them.
Support regional integration, labour mobility and skills recognition across the IGAD member states by mapping and analysing their National Qualifications Frameworks and developing recommendations for institutional capacity development and qualifications cooperation.
Specific Objectives:
- 1Map and analyse the National Qualifications Frameworks of the IGAD member states
- 2Coordinate consultations with ministries, TVET institutions, employers and development partners across the region, including Uganda
- 3Facilitate regional stakeholder workshops on qualifications, mutual recognition and labour mobility
- 4Develop recommendations for institutional capacity development and qualifications cooperation
Key Activities
- Mapping of the National Qualifications Frameworks across the IGAD member states
- Analysis of frameworks in support of regional integration, labour mobility and skills recognition
- Consultations with ministries, TVET institutions, employers and development partners across the IGAD region, including Uganda
- Facilitation of regional stakeholder workshops
- Recommendations for institutional capacity development
- Recommendations for qualifications cooperation between member states
Methodology
Framework mapping and comparative analysis across member states
Multi-stakeholder consultation with ministries, TVET institutions, employers and development partners
Regional stakeholder workshops
Capacity-development and qualifications-cooperation recommendations
Project Outcomes
Current analytical picture of the National Qualifications Frameworks across the IGAD member states (ongoing)
Sustained multi-stakeholder consultation structures on mutual recognition and labour mobility (ongoing)
Recommendations for institutional capacity development and qualifications cooperation (ongoing)
2024-06 to Present
IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) Secretariat
Commissioning Party / Regional framework owner
Development OrganizationMinistries and national qualifications authorities of the IGAD member states
NQF mapping, analysis and qualifications-cooperation recommendations
TVET institutions, employers and development partners across the IGAD region
Consultations and stakeholder workshops on mutual recognition and labour mobility