Funding Agency: Asian Development Bank
Client: Asian Development Bank / Ministry of Education / Institute of Engineering
Date: Feb 2008 – July 2009
The capacity development technical assistance (TA) will (i) identify emerging labor market needs, and prioritize disciplines and expertise most in demand, both for the internal and external markets;(ii) identify gaps for institutional development and propose sectoral reform as necessary (iii) identify options for funding, governance, and some public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements; and (iii) draw on ongoing experience and identify good practices to articulate areas that need to be sustained. Finally, by incorporating various findings, the TA will help prepare a feasibility study to consolidate and selectively expand engineering and technical education.
Key outputs of the TA was (i) technical recommendations in various fields (access, quality and management in higher education subsector, in particular higher engineering education) which were defined in the detailed terms of references of each consultant; and (ii) a project design for ADB’s investment project to the Institute of Engineering to be approved in 2012.
Overall Services provided by firm:
As a national sub-consultant, TMS was responsible for providing services to meet TA’s objectives. In particular, TMS provided services related to
