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And the country’s RPL framework, according to Kande, aligns with the region’s African Continental Qualifications Framework (ACQF).

The project (ACQF-II) that aims at ensuring transparency, comparability and recognition of qualifications, she said, is being implemented by the African Union and the European Training Foundation. 

The first cohort had 900 graduates who undertook the programme churned out in March, 2024 with the government targeting 10,000 new graduates annually.  

Kande said KNAO provides standards of assessing and certifying the skills and competencies acquired through experience.

Domiciled under the Office of the Deputy President, the authority has been tasked with coordinating awareness creation, sensitisation and ensuring capacity building on RPL.

She said “implementation of the policy is a bridge to facilitate transition from informality to formality as well as facilitating multi entry/exit between the education system and the labour market.”

“This  enables our skilled, but uncertified youths to be awarded certificates based on individual competencies expanding their opportunities in employment and advanced learning,’’ she said. 

“This framework brings together Basic Education (BE), Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), University Education (UE), industrial training and lifelong learning to enable better coordination and harmonization of qualifications across the various sectors,” she added.