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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Foster partnerships between employment agencies, training providers, local youth centres and NGOs to exchange information on vacancies and provide services for young people. Apply targeted active measures to help young unemployed people into employment or self-employment, based on their specific profile and needs. Allow training centres more autonomy to adjust their training provision, to generate and re-invest own income. Provide better countrywide information on the courses on offer. Give incentives to employers to hire and train young people.

Have more high-quality, affordable child and elderly care facilities, particularly outside the capital and in rural areas.

Improve working hours and conditions for women with children and shift part of the financial burden for maternity leave away from employers, as it discriminates female job candidates.

Ensure access, participation and completion of education of young females. Provide for second-chance education and skills training, taking account of women's profiles and needs.

Increase the property ownership rate of women; strengthen women's professional networks and female entrepreneurship schemes.

Provide women-friendly communication and outreach campaigns, safe spaces, flexible schedules, proper career guidance, training to enhance women's self-esteem, a positive discrimination in the selection of jobseekers to benefit from active labour market measures, childcare facilities, linking training to job placements, as well as targeted measures addressing women from poor backgrounds and with multiple disadvantages on the labour market.