Agencies for International Cooperation in TVET:
A Guide to Sources of Information
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  Abbreviations
AECI Agencia Espanola de Cooperación Internacional, dependent agency within the Spanish Foreign Ministry
  AIF Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
APEFE Association pour la promotion de l'éducation et de la formation ŕ l'étranger
  AusAID Australian Agency for International Development
BF Basket Funding
  BMZ German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
BTC Belgian Technical Cooperation agency
  CEEC Central and Eastern European Countries
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
  CIM Center for International Migration and Development: Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union)
  COCOP Comité d'Orientation, de Coordination et de Projet; French development cooperation instrument
COL Commonwealth of Learning
  DAC Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  DED German Development Service: Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst
Danida Danish Development Agency
  DCI Development Cooperation Ireland
DFID Department for International Development, British government department
  DGCID Direction générale de la Coopération internationale et du Développement, directorate within the French Foreign Ministry
DGCS Directorate General for Development Cooperation, within the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  DGDC Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, directorate within the Belgian Department of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
EED Church Development Service, Association of the Protestant Churches in Germany: Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst
  EU European Union
FSP Fonds de Solidarité Prioritaire, French development cooperation instrument
  GNP Gross National Product
GTZ German Agency for Technical Cooperation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
  HID Human and Institutional Development
ICTs Information and Communication Technologies
  ILO International Labour Organisation
IMF International Monetary Fund
  IMT Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine
INGO International Non-Governmental Organisation
InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany: Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH
  IPAD Portuguese Development Cooperation Institute
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency
  JOCVs Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers
KfW KfW Group: KfW Bankengruppe - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
  LFA Logical Framework Approach
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
  MISEREOR Episcopal aid organization: Bischöfliches Hilfswerk
NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
  NIS Newly Independent States
NORAD Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
  NORRAG Northern Policy Research and Advisory Network
NZAID New Zealand Agency for International Development
  OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
ÖEZA Österreichische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Aussenministerium (Austrian Development Cooperation Agency)
  OA Official Aid
ODA Official Development Assistance
  PBA Programme Based Approach
PPP Public Private Partnership
  PRSC Poverty Reduction Support Credit
PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
  SADC Southern African Development Community
SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
  SEQUA Foundation for Economic Development and Vocational Training: Stiftung für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und berufliche Qualifizierung
Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
  SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprise
SPS Sector Programme Support
  SWAp Sector Wide Approach
TA Technical Assistance
  TVE Technical and Vocational Education
TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training
  UN United Nations
UNAids Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
  UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
  UNESCO-UNEVOC UNESCO's International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
USAID United States Agency for International Development
UTC Central Technical Unit of DGCS
VET Vocational Education and Training
VVOB Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (Belgium)
WFP World Food Programme
ZOPP Zielorientierte Projektplanung/ Objectives-oriented Project Planning, Guidelines developed by GTZ


 
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