The Vanuatu Skills Partnership (the Partnership) is a locally-led, politically-aware initiative to achieve decentralised service delivery and governance reform through the vector of the national skills training system. The initiative supports Vanuatu 2030: The People’s Plan – National Sustainable Development Plan 2016 –2030 and the Australia Vanuatu Aid Partnership Arrangement 2016–2019 and operates at two complementary levels. At the programmatic level, it aims to demonstrate, through small-scale models, how inclusive and quality-based skills training delivery can lead to locally relevant inclusive growth outcomes.
Demonstrating such results enables the Partnership, in turn, to advocate and build demand for wholesale skills system improvement informed by these models. Simultaneously, the Partnership operates in a broader political sphere. Recognising that domestic factors of power and politics are central to any social change process, it supports the emergence and influence of a cohort of developmental leaders committed and equipped to drive broad-based governance reform.
This Better Balance Strategy articulates how the Partnership will build on its work to date in achieving greater equality in women’s and men’s roles, relations and opportunities – in contextually effective ways, in line with national policy drivers, and drawing from evidence-based research, as well as its own lessons from implementation.
Read the Better Balance Strategy here.