Strengthening IGAD Migration Policy Implementation II (SIMPI): Qualifications Frameworks and Skills Recognition

Under the IGAD–GIZ SIMPI programme, indeson advanced the regional recognition of skills and qualifications for refugees, returnees, internally displaced people and host communities across the IGAD member states — Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. The assignment conducted NQF stage assessments and needs analyses, designed tailored national implementation plans and referencing methodologies, and guided member states toward alignment with the IGAD Regional Qualifications Framework (IGADQF): legislation, baseline analysis, qualification maps, level descriptors, and policies on Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Accumulation and Transfer. Regional data systems for qualifications comparability and skills portability, governance guidelines, a resource mobilisation strategy, an implementation and training handbook, and gender-responsive monitoring in line with the Djibouti Declaration operationalised the framework — supported by capacity building, validation meetings and regional multi-stakeholder workshops.