DARYA: Regional cooperation on skills and qualifications in Central Asia

The event focuses on projecting sustainable scenarios of cooperation on qualification and skills for the region of Central Asia. The meeting builds on the results of a DARYA regional feasibility study that researched on the ongoing economic, political and social collaboration in Central Asia. The results show an increase in intraregional trade and multicountry sectoral collaboration, intensification of political will in the region to unpack the regional potential and identity. Focus group discussions with Central Asian stakeholders identified a willingness to intensify collaboration and transparency of skills and qualifications, such as create a Regional qualifications framework, develop common frameworks and resources for quality assurance of qualifications, set up partnerships and enact peer learning of professionals in education and training. In order to become sustainable and bring fruitful results, any such initiatives need to be have ownership, and some levels of formalisation and coordination. The event will provide an opportunity for participants from Central Asia, representing multistakeholder groups, to have guided discussions on how to develop the preferred scenarios of cooperation, projecting their objectives, desired outcomes, and roadmaps to achieving them.