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Abstract:
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Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) is a regulatory body established in July 1999 by an Act of Parliament with the mandate to create an integrated TEVET System in Malawi that is demand driven, competency based, modular, comprehensive, accessible and flexible and consolidated enough to service both the rural and urban Malawian population. The TEVETA system has the following objectives: a) To promote an integrated, demand driven, competency based modular technical, entrepreneurial and vocational and training system; b) To monitor gaps between supply and demand for skills; c) To support the adoption and application of appropriate technologies; b) To promote managerial and business skills and a spirit of entrepreneurial culture with regard to both wage and self-employment. TEVETA under the informal sector skills development office has been facilitating and implementing a number of training programs namely: i) Skills Development Initiative; ii) Small Enterprise Development iii) On the Job Training (OJTP). The major quest of the baseline survey was to establish the social economic status of the Mua- Livulezi with special reference to the following variables; 1) How many people are involved in weaving, curios, and bee- keeping? 2) How much money are they making out of these activities? 3) How many primary and secondary products are made? 3) How best can they sustainably use the forest resources? |