Cross-cutting themes
Gender
The way men and women perceive themselves and each other is determined by social values and norms, which often translate in hard-to-modify stereotypes.
Labour market
The labour market plays an important role in NICHE projects, expressed through a focus on technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Nuffic has prepared a TVET strategy document which describes the selection process with regard to interventions and intervention areas.
Learning organisations
One of the basic characteristics of the NICHE programme is its organisational learning approach. This page introduces you to Nuffic’s perspective on learning organisations and the role of organisational learning in the NICHE programme.
Integrated Capacity Development
NICHE sees capacity development as a process whereby people, organisations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, create, adapt and maintain capacity over time. The programme aims to develop capacity in developing countries through an 'integrated' approach. Below we explain the concept behind this approach how it is put into practice.