Improving the vocational and Technical Education system

This Global Gateway project, listed under Madagascar's education and research pillar, aims to support the socio-professional integration of young women through improvements to the vocational and technical education (TVET) system, with an explicit gender focus aligned to labour market needs. It is recorded as having reached Phase 3 of 5, described as "Funded/Committed," which implies that financing has been agreed in principle. However, the investment figure has not been made public, which limits any meaningful assessment of the programme's scale or ambition. The evidentiary basis for this report is exceptionally thin. No disbursement records appear in the IATI Datastore and no matching entries are found in the EIB project database. These are typically the most reliable indicators of whether committed funds have begun to flow. Their absence means there is currently no independent confirmation that money has moved, regardless of the project's stated phase. No EU institutional communications, parliamentary questions, or delegation statements have been identified that would shed further light on implementation progress, partner organisations, or timelines. Independent news coverage adds nothing directly useful to this assessment. The search results retrieved contain no reporting on this specific project or on EU-financed TVET reform in Madagascar more broadly. The only item with any tangential relevance is a March 2026 report on a Salesian-run technical and vocational centre in Madagascar that received donor funding for a new building, but this is unrelated to EU Global Gateway financing and involves a distinct organisation and funding stream. The remaining search results concern education policy in Egypt, India, Tajikistan, and European online learning markets, none of which bears on this project. For a business audience or policymaker seeking to rely on this programme, the honest assessment is that confidence must be rated very low at this stage. The project carries a "Funded/Committed" designation according to EU sources, but that classification reflects the EU's own reporting framework, which has an institutional incentive to present project pipelines favourably. Without disbursement data, without independent journalism tracking implementation, and without any disclosed investment figure, it is not possible to verify whether meaningful activity is underway on the ground.