The APTC Gender Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion Strategic Framework (2023- 2025) sets out APTC’s strategy and approach to promote equitable training and employment access and outcomes for women, persons with disabilities (PWD) and individuals from rural and remote areas and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
To achieve this, APTC will address barriers to access and meaningful participation in Pacific and Timor-Leste TVET systems. We will improve pathways into TVET systems for those groups, and work with TVET partners to promote gender responsive and inclusive TVET.
Seven key operating principles underpin this GEDSI Strategic Framework:
1. Whole of organisation approach;
2. Building on APTC success and good practice;
3. Twin-track approach;
4. Integrating intersectionality;
5. Flexible model for diverse Pacific and Timor-Leste contexts;
6. Nothing about us without us; and,
7. Collaborative partnerships.
APTC’s GEDSI Strategic Framework (2023-2025) is informed by the above-mentioned interventions which has translated into the following three core commitments:
1. We commit to improving equitable access and training outcomes for women, PWD and individuals from small island developing states rural and remote areas.
2. We commit to improving employment outcomes for women, PWD and individuals from small island developing states and rural and remote areas.
3. We commit to promoting the implementation of GEDSI principles in APTC partner organisations to contribute towards gender responsive and inclusive TVET.
Read the GEDSI Framework 2023-2025 here.