Summary of the Aquaculture Technical, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training for Improved Private Sector and Smallholder Skills Project in Zambia (AQ TEVET) project

1. Aquaculture Technical, Vocational, and
Entrepreneurship Training for Improved
Private Sector and Smallholder Skills Project
Project planning and dissemination meeting 2020
28 October 2020, Zoom meeting, Zambia
Presenter: Netsayi Noris Mudege (Senior Scientist)

2. Meeting Ojectives
• Present results of the Independent midterm review of the AQ TEVET
project.
• Present results of a smallholder fish farmers census conducted in
Northern and Luapula provinces of Zambia
• Project planning for 2021
• Scaling

3. AQ TEVET project summary
Goal: Increase the number of people working for the private sector and the
number of smallholder commercial fish farmers with enhanced
aquaculture knowledge and up-to-date practical skills to help sustainably
grow the sector and make it more inclusive.
Duration 2018 to 2021
Focal Provinces Lusaka, Northern, and Luapula
Budget USD2.4 million (NOK20 million)
Donor Norwegian agency for development cooperation (Norad)
Partners WorldFish, NRDC (MoA), BluePlanet, and Musika

4. AQ TEVET project summary
Project component 1:
• Upgrade the fisheries science
curriculum (long- and short-term
courses) and training tools,
internship program
• Develop an online training platform
and internship program at NRDC
but with links to other TEVET
institutions to scale the upgraded
training “package” over the course
of the project
BluePlanet salmon online training platform at
https://blueplanetacademy.com/

5. AQ TEVET project summary
Project component 2
• Enhancing the technical education,
vocational, and entrepreneurship
skills of rural women, men, and
youth smallholder commercial fish
farmers
• Increasing linkages to input/output
markets and entrepreneurship
opportunities via private sector
extension support and services
delivery

6. AQ TEVET project summary
• Gender and youth integration strategy
• Assessing the aspirations and needs of and barriers faced by
different groups of students and smallholder fish farmers and
differentiating between these groups
• Using this information to directly inform the design of each activity
• Emphasis on:
• Collecting sex- and age-disaggregated data
• Reaching, benefiting, and empowering more women and female
youth via project activities

7. Project support to Government and
global initiatives
Zambia 7th National Development Plan (7NDP)
Zambia Aquaculture Enterprise Development (ZAED) Project
UNESCO strategy for technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
(2016-2021)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

8. Aquaculture Value Chain Development Goal
To increase the number of human resources working for the private sector and smallholder
commercial fish farmers with enhanced aquaculture knowledge and up-to-date practical skills to
help sustainably grow the sector and make it more inclusive
Project Objective
To develop the aquaculture knowledge and practical skills of students and smallholder commercial fish
farmers (especially women and female youth) participating in technical education, vocational, and
entrepreneurship training (TEVET) to enable them to find gainful employment in the private sector
Key outcome 1
Enhanced knowledge base of
students from the TEVET
institute trained
135 students trained have
enhanced knowledge of
aquaculture using the
upgraded curriculum, tools,
and online training platform
Key outcome 2
Enhanced practical skills of
students from the TEVET
institute gained from
internships specifically
tailored to address the needs
of the individual private
company
Internships of 135 students
carried out successfully with
over 30 private companies
Key outcome 3
Increased opportunities for
students to find gainful
employment with private
companies or set up their
own aquaculture-related
businesses
Over 200 performance
reviews carried out during
internships to provide
adequate feedback to
students
10 students who wish to set
up their own aquaculture-
related businesses linked to
financial institutions
Key outcome 4
TEVET institutes in Zambia
adopt/modify the curriculum,
training tools, online training
platform, and internship
program for integration
within their institutions
2 additional TEVET
institutes in Zambia
adopt/modify the curriculum,
training tools, online training
platform, and internship
program for integration
within their institutions
Key outcome 5
Enhanced organization of
farmers trained on TEVET
and provided services by the
private sector
1000 cluster farmers
identified, organized, and
trained on TEVET and
provided services by the
private sector
Sub-outcome 5.1
Enhanced capacities of
private sector to provide
TEVET training support and
services to smallholders
Enhanced capacities of 10
private sector companies to
provide constant support and
services to smallholders
Note: Sex and age-disaggregated data will be collected on most outcomes to enable such analysis when reporting on key indicators

9. Partners
• WorldFish
• Musika
• Blue Planet
• Department of
Fisheries (Zambia)

10. Acknowledgments
The project is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation (Norad)-Agreement ZAM-18/0002, Aquaculture
Technical, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training for Improved
Private Sector and Smallholder Skills.
This work will be undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program
on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH).