Skills for Employment Project

Delivery of skills training through the private sector is a viable approach to skills development in Nepal. The success of public-private partnerships will depend on appropriate implementation design, including a competitive bidding process to select the most experienced and qualified training institutions; mandatory skills testing and job placement requirements to ensure minimum quality of training; performance-based contracts to motivate the training providers to place trainees in jobs; capacity building of the technical training providers to carry out pre-training, training, and post-training activities; and close follow-up monitoring of the training providers.