NICHE-EGY-117
10 Oct 2011
Improve the quality of the educational offer of three technical schools and three training centres to provide relevant and practical teaching in a sustainable way
Sector
Water
Budget
The maximum budget for this project is € 1.8 million.
Organisations
This project has been developed by the Holding Company for Water & Waste Water (HCWW). The tender for this project expired on 19 August 2011. Nuffic's Tender Evaluation Commitee (TEC) has awarded this tender to BMB Mott MacDonald.
For this project BMB Mott MacDonald has formed a consortium with:
Project description
Egypt's water sector, and in particular the drinking and waste water sector, urgently needs skilled staff. At present, technical education is not practical and newly hired staff need extensive on-the-job training. Companies are increasingly applying new technologies which underlines the need for higher level staff and better educated technicians.
Investments in the drinking and waste water sector are very high as it delivers services to more than 100 million people. Maintenance deficiencies lead to higher costs because of loss in investments. They also lead to disrupted services. If water companies had higher educated technicians and staff, this would raise their service level.
In order to tackle the need for skilled staff the HCWW has started supporting three technical schools, to supply Water & Wastewater companies with well-trained specialised technicians.
In addition, the HCWW supports thee training departments within its water companies. The project activities with the schools are well coordinated with the Ministry of Education. The project activities with the training departments are coherent with the Human Resouce management within the HCWW.
The sector is supported by several other donors. Of particular interest is an ongoing PUM project, supporting the schools and training centre in the development of curricula. Donor coordination will be monitored carefully.
This project aims to:
- increase the supply for the HCWW of skillful technicians, trained and educated by the vocational schools and training centres affiliated to the HCWW.
- improve the quality of the educational offer of three technical schools and three training centres to provide relevant and practical teaching in a sustainable way.
Gender and labour market objectives
The schools and training centres should be a gender-friendly environment and the educational offer should be coherent with the needs of the labour market.
