As the current strategy will expire in 2020, this provides an opportunity to prepare for the design of the next strategy by drawing lessons from current gaps; in particular, it will be important to: i) identify national strategies and reform efforts having a link to skills development (including Economic Reform Programme and key economic sectors' development strategies), and the nature of this link; ii) ground the strategy in a clear vision for skills in Montenegro based on these links, but also a clear vision of the place and priority purpose of VET within the education and training system; iii) broaden the strategic planning to the whole VET/skills development sector in order to mirror and back the economic development strategic priorities of the government; iv) set safeguards for this new strategy to explicitly serve the needs of the labour market (by better use of relevant data); v) make the VET strategy more forward-looking and impact-oriented, including through the introduction of outcomes/impact objectives, targets and indicators in a performance assessment framework. A costing methodology should be developed and agreed to ensure accurate and sustainable budget planning and execution.