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Publications
This catalogue contains all ETF publications available to download, including studies on our partner countries, corporate publications and statutory documents. All publications are free of charge.
Over the next four years, the ETF will move from technical development activities towards new processes aimed at the human resources sector as a whole based on how assistance projects support overall policy development and implementation and how policy strategies contribute over time to achieving partner country priorities in their relationship with the European Union. The ETF's goals for its 2007 Work Programme comprise three main objectives related equally to the Instrument for Pre-Accession, the European Neighbourhood Partnership Instrument, and the Development Co-operation Instrument. The ETF will concentrate on cross cutting themes that contribute to overall reform and strengthen relations with the EU, such as qualification frameworks, financing, decentralisation, migration and skills recognition, the contribution of skills development to poverty reduction, gender participation and the continuing capacity development of stakeholders. The ETF will use a range of tools such as higher level networking in partner countries, policy dialogues, and peer learning and review to maximise the impact of national developments among partner countries through the sharing of expertise between policy makers from different countries.
This paper is the summary of a conference titled "Knowledge and skills for development: The role of secondary education and training in the Middle East and North Africa", held in Turin, Italy, from 7 to 10 May 2000 under the auspices of the World Bank and the ETF. The conference was attended by ministers of education and labour and by senior officials from sixteen contries of the region. Participants also included representatives from six EU countries, along with some members of the European Commission and international organisations such as the ILO, CEDEFOP, OECD and UNESCO. Experts from the World Bank, the ETF, international organisations, EU member states, Hungary, Canada and the Med-MENA region led the discussions in pleanry sessions and in working groups.
This document from the 2006 Advisory Forum refers to the regional sessions that take place after the discussions held on the thematic groups. The sessions are organised in four geographical areas: 1)Candidate and potential candidate countries; 2)Mediterranean partner countries; 3)Eastern Europe and Caucasus partner countries; 4)Central Asian partner countries.
