Shortage of qualified national consultants could delay implementation and increase project costs . The intention at design was to work with the support of national consultants. However, the lack of national consultants with technical qualifications and TVET experience as required by the project hampered timely recruitment and mobilization of these technical experts. Consequently, some national positions had to be converted to international positions or contracts of qualified national consultants extended to enable them to complete the tasks. These changes delayed project implementation and increased the overall costs of consulting services of the project but ensured activities were completed, high quality expertise to enhance relevance was provided, and the outputs achieved.
Mid-Level Skills Training Project