The Millennium Challenge Account – Georgia organized a roundtable
meeting with technical and vocational training providers funded under the Industry-Led
Skills and Workforce Development Project (ISWD) to discuss gender and social
equity in vocational education programs.
The roundtable meeting focused on the business examples of
integrating gender and social aspects into vocational education by the TVET
providers, who received grant funding to develop industry-led vocational
education programs. Their approaches are ranging from encouraging women’s participation
in the traditionally non-female occupations to gender equal recruitment. TVET
institutions shared their practices of gender equality and social inclusion
reflected in the representation of women and socially disadvantaged among
students and faculty, accessibility of learning environment, unbiased
instruction and non-stereotypical attitudes and learning materials.
Magda Magradze, CEO of Millennium Challenge Account – Georgia,
Jenner Edelman, Resident Country Director of Millennium Challenge Corporation
and the representatives of universities and colleges that are offering
vocational programs took part in the roundtable discussion.
"Gender and Social equality is a crosscutting priority for
Millennium Challenge Account. We pay a lot of attention to those strategies and
approaches that are used by TVET Providers that receive funding from us. Today,
we discussed how gender and social aspects are integrated in new vocational
programs that have been developing through our projects. In total, Millennium
Challenge Account invested 12 million USD in ten vocational education
providers, who have already started offering new TVET programs in 2017-2018”, -
Magda Magradze commented.