The study on “skills development for secure livelihoods” is a German Internaional
Cooperation (GIZ) contribution to the second of the three major sub-themes of the Association for the
Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Triennial: “Technical and vocational skills development
for socio-economic growth and lifelong learning”.
2. The report presents experiences and lessons learned from projects with the overarching
goal of improving the livelihoods of poor and disadvantaged people through skills development
measures in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. The specific focus of the study is on identifying success
factors and replicable (good practice -) instruments across the different country contexts and on
conclusions at an operational level rather than on an elaboration of (additional) synopsis of theoretical
concepts. Therefore the outset of the study was a desktop research of existing studies and evaluations.