Vocational Education and Training in Agriculture

summary

With funds from the Government of Switzerland, UNDP is assisting Georgia to establish a modern system of vocational education and training in agriculture and introduce and an extension system for farmers. The project is being implemented in close partnership with the Georgian government - Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport as well as in collaboration with the educational institutions and the private sector.

what we do

  • Promote training and professional development of vocational teachers, extension officers and agricultural specialists.
  • Upgrade educational standards and curricula of the VET colleges.
  • Elaborate and implement the modular programmes in agriculture.
  • Provide farmers with the high quality training and extension services.
  • Improve access to resources, infrastructure and best practices for the regional and local agriculture entities.
  • Boost coordination and enhance policy planning at the national level.
  • Promote the new training methods in agriculture, such as work-based learning. Facilitate cooperation between the public and private sectors.
  • Develop institutional partnership between the Georgian and European VET colleges. Facilitate students/teachers exchange programmes, knowledge-sharing and collaboration.

results so far

  • Development, piloting and introduction of the new educational standards and programmes, including up to 100 new training modules.
  • Training of up to 2000 farmers offered by 8 vocational colleges. 
  • Extension/advisory support for more than 10,000 farmers in 16 public agricultural information and consultation centers.
  • Public/private cooperation and partnership in the field of work-based learning.

Contact information

Project address

7 Mtskheta Street
Tbilisi 0179 Georgia
+995 32 2250106

Contact persons

Elene Tskhakaia
Project Manager
elene.tskhakaia@undp.org

Tea Gulua
Knowledge Management and Innovations Specialist
tea.gulua@undp.org

Tamar Sanikidze
Agriculture and Farming Specialist 
tamar.sanikidze@undp.org

George Nanobashvili
UNDP Economic Development Team Leader
george.nanobashvili@undp.org

Impact

START DATE

September 2018

END DATE

December 2023

STATUS

Ongoing

PROJECT OFFICE

Georgia

IMPLEMENTING PARTNER

Mim.of Education and Science

DONORS

SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION - SDC

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PRO

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS

$7,871,851

DELIVERY IN PREVIOUS YEARS

2018$185,266

2019$1,311,352

2020$1,679,683

2021$2,054,713

2022$2,126,993

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