ETF Work Programme 2007

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.