Embed entrepreneurial skills more systematically into curricula or courses and teacher training; provide grant financing and coaching to help people start up and run businesses.

Ensure a structured cooperation of vocational schools, training centres and higher education institutions with businesses to adjust qualifications & curricula and to generate more practical assignments and work-based learning opportunities. Set up career centres in educational establishments for students to make more informed choices, following existing examples.

Link producers & service providers along the value chain or by region to generate more value, more business and jobs. Continue to address issues with informality and the ease of doing business.

Use available demographic projections and skill needs analyses at national, sectoral and regional levels to inform network planning, VET offers and enrolment numbers in each region and institution.

Enact comprehensive legislation regulating VET for all target groups and providers; assign executive functions for VET development & management to a fully resourced Agency for VET and Adult Education; give schools more autonomy in terms of staff, courses, budgets and partnerships within national frameworks for qualifications, quality assurance and accountability; develop capacities of school leaders.

Expand efforts to include children in both compulsory and upper secondary education; accelerate move towards competence-based curricula, especially in the basic subjects; intensify teacher training and provide adequate teaching and learning materials.